CSXT 7757 C40-8W leads Q217-17 west at Point of Rocks on a cold, windy afternoon.

A clear, cool day got us out of the house (finally); a large bank of clouds to the north got us to head south. So, here we are enjoying the view from the Homestead Greys bridge of westbound CSXT a... (more)

A heads up from a friend led us to North Bessemer to watch a southbound ore train arrive to interchange with the Union Railroad - an unexpected surprise was the northbound Union crew arriving with... (more)

A pair of NS heritage units made a surprise run east today; the NYC 1066 leads the S&A 1065 on the NS Ft Wayne line hot on the heels of 24M.

The Lehigh Valley Heritage Unit leads train 776 east out of Conway Yard. With the arrival of autorack train 18N all of us foamers made a mad dash for the overpass. In hindsight, I'm glad - this is... (more)

Three SD50's assist in loading a coal train at "Reading Anthracite", where progress was delayed due to a shortage of coal at the railhead; witness a large dump truck and a big CAT bringing more co... (more)

URR 31 leads a quartet of MP15 switchers into N Bessemer Yard with a long cut of empty B&LE ore hoppers. Late this same evening, these hoppers will be exchanged for ore loads delivered by the Can... (more)

Day in and day out, the SD40E's slog up and down the grades of the Alleghenies shoving heavy trains east and west. On this particular day, we see the 6310 assisting the 16N train east on track 1 ... (more)

Another neat location in the panhandle of WV... Green Spring is the junction of the South Branch Valley with the CSXT mainline to Baltimore & DC. This evening we watched eastbound light engines o... (more)

To a railfan like me, there are few places I'd rather be... This is a different view of the same spot recently uploaded to RP.net. Thanks to Potomac Eagle for their hospitality during Romney RR D... (more)

This ex-B&LE SD18 is slated to be retired soon, so we were quite glad to have a chance to lens it at the Potomac Eagle's night photo session.

Traffic was somewhat slow on the Cumberland sub this day - we missed a few westbounds trying to find a location. The U833 had a hard time getting out of Cumberland and gave us plenty of advance n... (more)

We spent quite a few hours trying to locate the laggard installations of B&O's color position light signals and were disappointed many times over. But luck was on our side at Grasshopper when we ... (more)

We had a great time at the night photo session in Romney this year. About 20 fans came out and were "outstanding in their field" for several hours, and we managed to get a few neat angles with so... (more)

We had a great time at the night photo session in Romney this year. About 20 fans came out and were "outstanding in their field" for several hours, and we managed to get a few neat angles with so... (more)