A westbound "filleted" intermodal cruises into Charm city on a sunny, but snowy, March day.
I love the area between Bailey's Wye and Riverside yard in Baltimore. It's got a very "urban" vibe, and you can see all sorts of stuff, even commuter trains. This time, I caught some... (more)
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)
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.
York has never looked so good!
But the WM didn't HAVE GP30s! Doesn't matter. The 501 still looks great in the sun in front of the Cumberland station.
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.
One of the LTEX GP15-1s is paired up with a Ma & Pa CF7 to switch cars in Poorhouse Yard in York.
EBT 16 is reaching the top of McMullins Summit on its way back to Orbisonia with the 11am train.
EBT #16 charges back toward Orbisonia in this uncommon view from Runk Road.
EBT's 11am train is on its way back to Orbisonia in this shot from the side of the "Farmer's overpass".
This photo might be familiar if you own Frank Kyper's "Oh, What a Magnificent New Dawn on the East Broad Top Railroad!" book since it was featured on the cover.
I never thought I'd get nostalgic for C40-8s, but I guess I was wrong. Here a CSX C40 brings an eastbound autorack train into Connellsville.