On a winter afternoon, a loaded Western Maryland coal train behind an SD40 and an F7B has stopped outside the yard at Hagerstown, MD, awaiting a clear track.

At 23½ years young, NW 205, a high short hood GP35, awaits its next assignment at Vardo Yard, Hagerstown, MD, on 06/27/1987.

Built 11/1963 (S# 28620), and delivered to N&W in 12/1963. Reti... (more)

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)

Rough track on the branch line to Maryland Metals in Hagerstown.

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

“Reading 96 Redux”
Conrail’s Hagerstown Secondary crosses in the foreground, as the modern iteration of “Reading 96”, CSX R342 (Cumberland to Enola), approaches NC Tower in Hag... (more)

CSX Q015 with a Kansas City Southern "Belle" enters the northern outskirts of Hagerstown, MD on the former Western Maryland Lurgan Line from the Chambersburg Terminal. The train is just ... (more)

On a slow day on the NS B-Line/H-Line 228 speeds through Hagerstown with NS 7259 leading 6 total intermodal cars.

NS 203 comes through vardo yard on a sunny day with a surprising CN locomotive in the lead.

A Western Maryland red/white F7 No.241 a few cars and a matching caboose moving through Hagerstown, Maryland WM yard . Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed.

WM SD40 7446; Delivered in red/white. No photographer listed on slide.

Short end hood cut down by WM, beginning 2/62 with No.25, the only unit with two-piece windshield. Repainted to red/white; 27, 28, 29, 32, 35, 38, 39, 42, 43, Ex-EMD demo 7257 became WM 33. N... (more)

Norfolk Southern 9-1-1 led manifest 13R out of Enola, Pa and is seen here picking up a cut of cars in Vardo Yard in Hagerstown, MD before heading South. A line of thunderstorms quickly developed a... (more)

NS 13R is lead by NS 911 First Responders unit at Vardo Yard. Shot this as storm was aproaching from the north ans sun shine from the south on the front of the locomotive. Almost looks like a twil... (more)