853 and 212 wait for crew next to famous old "D" tower. Hard to imagine at the state the old tower is in now how it must have looked during the busy days of steam at Grafton.

Western Maryland's fall plumage makes a nice addition to shiny WMSR 734 in this 2006 photo. Notice the colors reflected on 734's big twelve wheel tender.

Here at Sunnyside straight, 734 shows her ability to make pretty smoke plumes..

These big CSXT GE's look quite large..and they are..out on the famous old B&O Viaduct out of Cumberland to the fabled "West End". Nothing unusual here, going back to West Virginia with a string of... (more)

The on-time Capital Limited is near it's stop at Cumberland, with eight of the dirtiest passenger cars I think I've ever seen!

A short eastbound container train hustles east thru the interchange as an empty hopper train with another 70 Mac in the lead waits for signal to go west at Mexico.

9036 leads it's train around the big curve near the summit at Sand Patch, only a few hundred yards away, and just slightly further to Sand Patch Tunnel. The train is eastbound here, on the westbou... (more)

This coal haul has been stopped in order to let the eastbound Capital Limited pass on the westbound main, next to the small home. Not much of a front yard there! The spur in the left of the phot... (more)

An eastbound coal haul waits on the eastbound main while the late Capital Limited hurries east on the westbound track to it's Cumberland stop.

This reminds me of the good old days of rented units when you could see just about any paint job pulling a train. This set of engines is hauling ethanol tankers. The four engines consist of the I... (more)

Three nice looking W&LE engines lead hoppers of talconite into Cumberland. The locos where fairly clean, the lead engine an SD40-3, and two SD 40-2's, the center engine an ex KCS loco still spor... (more)

A good view of 734 as she's about to go under Parkesburg Bridge. Note in this nearly ten year old photo, no trail beside the ROW! Taken with my little Nikon 990.

What appears to be a spanking new rebuilt SD40E exits the Galitzen Tunnels leading a two unit helper set.

This loaded coal train is parked in the Keyser Yard waiting for crew. I believe it to be an NS train, with a New Jersey destination. The long string of aluminum hoppers caught my eye. It's 7:30 AM... (more)

502 and friend bring a haul of black diamonds into Cumberland after a nearly two hour wait at the famous "Bud Board", two "hot" trains came in east bound on the west bound track before they were a... (more)