Covered hoppers decent the hump to their destination as the tower watches over and the RC SD40-2 unit stands by for the next assignment.

A light GEVO stops short of the switch to back against a train destined for the eastern slope of the Sandpatch grade. An empty coal drag sits at Mexico waiting for a spot. Seems as though they a... (more)

My first decent pan shot, at 1/13th sec.

The fourth engine back, a CSX GP15T, is the only home road engine on the eastbound "Q". BNSF 9224 leads the engine consist, lookin' good like an ACE should leading the train down by Henderson Av... (more)

Mountain Thunder lives up to her nickname as she makes a spectacular entrance into Maryland, crossing the Potomac from West Virginia.

Western Maryland's "Mountain Thunder" passes MP 167 in some early morning haze and fog that seemed hang around most of the day

Running The Narrows - Part II. The constant hum of rush hour traffic in downtown Cumberland begins to fade as the ears become aware of an almost explosive, staccato barking sound approachin... (more)

Running The Narrows - Part I. Western Maryland's Consolidation #734 runs the 900 ft. deep canyon known as "The Narrows", just a mile northwest of downtown Cumberland. She's pulling a heav... (more)

A Western Maryland Fast Freight highballs through Cumberland. The shot of the day on the third and final of the John Helmstetter Benefit charters occurred not at some remote photo location,... (more)

Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain

With a full head of steam WMSR 734 roars by at Sunnyside

You're not from around here... BNSF 641, still in Warbonnet paint, eases into a small patch of sunlight as it heads toward Mexico Tower at the east end of CSX's Cumberland yard. After clear... (more)

With a full head of steam WMSR 734 exits Brush tunnel westbound