A side trip to Mainline Hobby Supply in Blue Ridge Summit PA brought me through Highfield. It was Sunday, nothing should be happening, right? Much to my pleasant surprise CSX was working the M... (more)

I031 arrives at Bayview Yard, where it's pickup awaits.

I stumbled onto a photo freight at Helmstetter's and just happened to catch 734 coming around the bend before the sun dropped below the mountain.

734 doing what it did for years: hauling passengers up and down the mountain. Here she does that around the famous Helmstetter's Curve.

But the WM didn't HAVE GP30s! Doesn't matter. The 501 still looks great in the sun in front of the Cumberland station.

Here is MARC P891 with MARC 23 slowing down Gaithersburg to Drop off/Pick up passengers.

CSXT I032, an intermodal from Duval Yard in Jacksonville, FL to North Bergen, NJ heads through Muirkirk, Maryland on a perfect summer morning. CSXT 1982, the "Seaboard System" Heritage U... (more)

I thought I was heading over to CSX to catch something non-NS. Nooope. A westbound oil train heading down the Philly Sub had this pair of NS units on it.

A daylight freight train on the NEC? That's enough to get me out in the snow. SD80MACs on the point? That's enough to get me to stand there in the snow for an hour waiting for it.

Stunning morning on a Lerro Photo Charter with the C&O 1309 making quite a ruckus in the narrows.

A quiet morning at Sam's Marina is interrupted as I031-15 speeds west over the Susquehanna River.

I031-15 starts across the Susquehanna River.

I137-01 begins assembling it's train at the Port of Baltimore Seagirt Marine Terminal.

The Capitol Limited's second journey with a ALC-42 Charger (made by Siemens USA) in the lead heads west to Chicago, IL.

History, Passing of The Torch, Whatever you want to call it. For the very first time, an Amtrak ALC-42 Charger locomotive built by Siemens USA leads Amtrak's Capitol Limited from Chicago, IL to Wa... (more)