“Suits on Sand Patch”
CSX P908-16 is eastbound at Brackens on CSX’s Main Line Subdivision at 11:21 a.m. on 10/17/1990, while on Track 1 a trailer train climbs the east slope of San... (more)

“Blue Suits”
B947, the Saturday version of the Frederick District Switcher, shown here on the Old Main Line at Frederick Junction, is preparing to spot several ADM covered hoppers at... (more)

This May 19, 1985 excursion on the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad was likely run in conjunction with the annual Ferndale Day festival. Following BLA 50, a GE 70-tonner, are the Pullman “Defend... (more)

Detail of MPA Tool Car X11, photographed (with permission) while it was privately owned and stored on private property in East Baltimore in 1984. Ultimately, it was moved to the Ma & Pa mainline a... (more)

“Sunrise Orange Blossom”
On December 15, 1985 at 07:30, eleven minutes after a 07:19 sunrise, the OBSS (Orange Blossom Special-South), led by RF&P GP40-2 142, is westbound on track 1... (more)

“If It's Sun Day, This Mustn't Be Binghamton”
RARE: Not the Alco, the weather--it was sunny in Binghamton! D&H 5011 and stablemate 5003 assembling a train at Conklin Yard (Eas... (more)

“Bird’s Eye OBSS”
OBSS, with SS/SBD B36-7 5908 leading, is crossing the Patapsco River on the historic Thomas Viaduct on Track 1 of the B&O's Washington Subdivision (now CSX’s Ca... (more)

“Jesus Saves”
With the rowhouses of South Baltimore in the background, CHGN (Chicagoan), lovingly referred to as the “Locust Point Flyer”, with a seven unit lashup (consisting of... (more)

“Best Bib and Tucker”
Photographed at Riverside on June 29, 1986, the newly repainted CSX/B&O 6344 is the former Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4446. Outshopped from Huntington in early M... (more)

“Fresh Air”
The conductor of the “East End Local” (B829), with Chessie System/B&O GP38 2047 (CSX#), gets some fresh air and conducts a “roll by” inspection of R171 (Orange Bl... (more)

“RPPY Incognito”
It may look like unit coal, but it’s actually D&H RPPY (Rouses Point, NY to Potomac Yard, VA), symbolled as R403 on CSX, powered by NS C39-8 8605 and NS GP38AC 411... (more)

Just over a month after the horrific collision between Amtrak 94 (The Colonial) and Conrail ENS121 on January 4, 1987, an all-GP38-2 set (CR 8188, 8266, 8185) leads an unidentified Conrail ... (more)

“Off the Showroom Floor…Almost”
This pair of Chessie System units looks to have seen some very limited revenue service, but, having just been built in August, they certainly hadn�... (more)

CSX R171 (OBSS, Orange Blossom Special-South), with RF&P GP40 123 plus three, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) Philadelphia Subdivision, shortly after nine o�... (more)

“Short of a Full Deck”
This unusually short CSX trailer train, with Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4438 as the sole power, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) ... (more)