Q400 rolls west on track one at the Cherry Run interlocking. Four tracks converge at this location. In the foreground from left to right is the Lurgan Sub from Hagerstown, the Cumberland Sub Low G... (more)

Beards Road Crossing in Berkeley County, WV along the North Mountain Grade has two s-curves and cut on each side. Here the gates come down as Q416 is about to turn the corner around Paxton Cut.

After arriving in Hagerstown, MD from the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch, a string of PPLX hoppers run west off the former Western Maryland now CSX Lurgan Sub at Cherry Run, WV under a near full m... (more)

Dawn is beginning to break as Q401 shines on the eastbound B&O CPL Bracket Mast at Turkey Foot. Previously a signal bridge stood here when this was a three track mainline but was taken down when d... (more)

About an hour after sunset and 386 seconds it took as MARC P883, rolls across the Potomac River and makes it's station stop. At the same time coal train U825 is stopped waiting for P883 to depart.... (more)

Looking at this scene in any book or on the web and you would easily know it was at Paw Paw, WV. The tunnel in the distance is Carothers Tunnel, the western most on the B&O Magnolia Cutoff. NOTICE... (more)

Just west of Paw Paw, WV and technically still on the Magnolia Cutoff lies Little Niagara or as old heads call it "Bird S**t Hollow." This bridge once controlled all four tracks of the Cutoff unti... (more)

It's raining as D721 gets it's signal from the BB Dispatcher off the Hancock Yard siding onto track one at Grasshopper. It slowly creeps along and flips the signal as it reaches the main. In the d... (more)

Looking down on Harpers Ferry, WV and the Potomac River from Maryland Heights. Eastbound Q226 autorack train has just called the "Peachers Mill" signal just out of sight midframe and glides along ... (more)

Something different... A westbound empty hopper trains flips the CPL on track one. I end up painting the cars with my LED lantern I had on me and the train passes. Totally by accident and it wasn'... (more)

The Capitol Limited has been a fixture on this line minus 10 years since 1923. Also a fixture on this former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline are it's color position signals. This week marks t... (more)

Work progresses at "Grasshopper" as the eastbound B&O CPL changes aspects for an eastbound autorack train on track two. In the distance the new siding signals are ready to be cut in and on the oth... (more)

Thanks to Sean Hoyden for letting me use his equipment. Q370 lit up at Great Cacapon

On the other side of this ridge sits the Potomac River and Harpers Ferry, WV. Its just after midnight and Q370 has the clear signal to proceed east and enters Harpers Ferry Tunnel. It's lights ill... (more)

"Fly me to the Moon"... comes to mind as what looks like a spaceship is actually Q400 and it's seven engine consist rolling by Great Cacapon towards the moon filled Sideling Hill Gap along the Po... (more)