Welcome Back 1309. Morning runs today feature sunlight and a lower angle...no hill hike til later.

Welcome Back 1309, indeed. This is the site of the "#9 Slide" that put the railroad out of connection with Frostburg in 2016, but opened up a tree tunnel for photos once repaired. I sp... (more)

The repainted #501 (ex-CR/PC/PRR #2249) sits with ex-CDAC #450 (nee-AMTK #380) supplying air for the passenger train.

Original WM 7471 sits at the depot with the passenger consist of the TRAINS Magazine photo charter. The fire department is on hand to supply water for #1309.

Western Maryland’s Shay 6, in its first weekend of operation on Cass Scenic Railroad, joins Cass veteran Shay 3 in filling the hollow adjacent to the Cass engine house with coal smoke. Shay 3 ... (more)

In Enemy Territory

The Baltimore and Ohio had competing trackage with the Western Maryland through most of the WM service territory. Needless to say, there was a strong corporate r... (more)

A Washington, D.C. – Martinsburg, WV “Farewell to the WM F’s” excursion rolls west on the Baltimore and Ohio main line at Weverton, Maryland. This trip was part of the Capitol Ltd. '79... (more)

West Virginia Central switching out the scrap yard in Elkins

For some reason Chessie System transferred some worn out geeps to the soon to disappear WM in the late 70s. An example sits with a whole group of dead locomotives taking Labor Day weekend off.

A Conrail bay-window caboose and a Western Maryland safety caboose on a Hagerstown – Enola manifest pass the former PRR tower at Rockville, Pennsylvania.

Maryland Western In Westernport. On the night of Sunday, June 20, 2021, former Western Maryland EMDs WM 7436 (SD35, 12/1964) and WM 7471 (SD40, 8/1966) sit in Westernport, Maryland next to ... (more)

Western Maryland 7436 and 7471 sit in Westernport Maryland on a clear summer evening.

A pair of GP35s - with Chessie System numbers, but still in faded WM paint - are assisted by a GP30 and GP9 in CS colors as they head east from Springfield with a short freight (that includes a fl... (more)

One of the excursions that was part of the 1979 NRHS convention was a farewell to the Western Maryland F-units. The round-trip from Washington, DC – Martinsburg, WV is seen on the Baltimore & Oh... (more)

Returned to Chessie by the Gettysburg railway after GETY acquired its own power, Western Maryland RS3’s 189, 186, and 198 have been set aside at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland.