Passengers waiting for the westbound Capital Limited at Historic Harpers Ferry Station catch a nice cooling breeze from the passing of Auto Rack train Q261.

An elderly GP38-2 leads rack train Q261 into historic Harpers Ferry.

Q261 heads west through downtown Pittsburgh just a few minutes after the sun rose on Thanksgiving Day.

Detouring due to the wreck of Q358 at Koppel.Pa on the Pittsburgh Sub, Q261 rolls west onto the Mingo Creek Trestle the highest on the W&LE,the former Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad

This days autorack train, Q261 is heavy enough to warrant helpers on the rear end. The head end is seen here negotiating a superelevated "S" curve and has just about completed its trek up the east... (more)

The famous B&O Concrete Wall still stands after 94 years of abuse from the railroad and mother nature.

Westbound autorack about to pass under the old WM or Western Maryland viaduct as they decend Sand Patch

A spartan cab SD60 leads empty rack train Q261 around the bend at Skeeterville.

My first time trackside in HF, I was lucky enough to meet local rail photographers Terry Tabb and Jack Toomey (two gentlemen - who gave me and another out-of-towner some great advice on angles for... (more)

Q261 negotiates the interlocking plant at Landsdowne, MD with it's train of autoracks. The new signals don't have the character of the CPLs they replaced, but provide an interesting prop none-the-... (more)

Ex-Conrail engine, CSXT 7492, leads Q261 and its cut of autoracks west past the Hansrote CPLs.

Not as common as a BNSF or NS version, a CSX Dash 9 leads an empty autorack train past the historic EF Baldwin Station and freight house at Gaithersburg, Maryland

With almost 7500 horsepower, this 8 car empty autorack train made incredible time climbing the wet and icy 10 mile grade west out of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

A stormy afternoon and Q261 with a CSX and a KCS GE AC pass the second oldest train station in North America. Duffields Station was built in 1839 and open to train service in 1842. A local organiz... (more)