A Roger Puta Photograph

WM FA-2s 301, 302, 303, and 304 plus SD40 7434. A Roger Puta Photograph

Taken from train WM-6. A Roger Puta Photograph

The power for train WM-6. The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Hitchcockesque birds loom in the background as Western Maryland power awaits its next assignment.

Carloads are the lifeblood of any freight railroad. The huge Westvaco paper mill at Luke, MD provided both WM and B&O with a sizable revenue stream from inbound raw materials and outbound paper. ... (more)

Remarks: F7s 237 and 239 on ready tracks at Hagerstown, Maryland, on June 6, 1965.

Tom Golden photo.

A matched A-B-A set of Western Maryland F-units starting out of Bayard toward Cumberland. Notice the knife-edged ballast- very unlike neighbor B&O, which always seemed to have a lot of mud in the ... (more)

Pushing up Williamsport Hill into Hagerstown

There is one thing for certain. For its size, WM had some very diverse scenery, from the urban docks of Baltimore to the wooded hollows of West Virginia, and everything in between. On a hazy Nov... (more)

The snow had just begun to fall at WM's Hagerstown Yard as BL2 No. 82 worked over the hump on February 19, 1975.

The 1975 Memorial Day holiday found me wandering around the Cumberland, Maryland area and searching for trains, but none were to found! I decided to cross the border and see what was happening ov... (more)

The last time I saw RS 3s at Bayard.