“Cat Pole Not Included”
Pictured at Bayview Yard, this “Paducah rebuild”, the former PRR/PC/CR GP9 7056 (built 1956), retained its high short hood when rebuilt* for... (more)

A Acela Express train passes through Halethorpe Station.

Common scene of the Northeast Corridor: A ACS-64 leads a Amtrak Northeast Regional train through the Halethorpe Station.

A MARC train passes through Halethorpe Station.

Led by CR SD50 6757 plus three additional, Conrail’s PYSE (Potomac Yard to Selkirk), operating on CSX rails between Anacostia and Park Jct., has just entered the single main of the Philadelphia ... (more)

“OBS Variety Pack”
There were precious few vantage points along the B&O’s Philadelphia or Washington Subdivisions to get a broadside view of a 5-unit lashup. And, save a train actu... (more)

“Against the Current”
Running opposite main, three B36-7s in Seaboard System attire, along with an RF&P GP40-2 and a Chessie/C&O GP40, power the Orange Blossom Special-Sout... (more)

The southbound Silver Meteor races over the Susquehanna River behind one of Amtrak's new ACS64 City Sprinter locomotives.

80 mph doubleheaded GG-1s 925 & 919 are about to give us a good spraying from their twenty-four 57" driving wheels on a rainy Saturday in 1977.

Classic Profile

EMD’s F-units were the first-generation workhorses of mainline railroading. Few paint schemes express the everyday get-the-job-done nature of the bulldog-nosed un... (more)

“Will Not Exceed 10 MPH”
With some autumn color still evident, a westbound manifest approaches–at reduced speed–the boardwalk at the BTSC/Baltimore Terminal Service Center (mp 5.... (more)

Northbound MARC commuter train rolls across Thomas Viaduct on the original B&O mainline between Baltimore & Washington D.C.

“Loose Caboose”
No longer wearing its “Linking NORTH and SOUTH” herald, RF&P caboose 923 (built 12/1970 by Southern Iron & Equipment) had wandered off home rails with the ... (more)

“Seaboard Samich”
A pair of RF&P locomotives bookends a trio of Seaboard System B36-7s on CSX 0171, the Orange Blossom Special-South, westbound at White Marsh at 09:20... (more)

Going out to Maryland had several benefits for me. Visiting family and catching up is a major one, and the other is getting a chance to railfan the high speed North East Corridor at nearby Halethr... (more)