Winter Shooting. On the freezing cold afternoon of February 20, 2015, CSXT 5264 (ES44DC) pops out of the tunnel in Knoxville, Maryland as it approaches the Potomac River crossing heading to... (more)

Unusual Loco, Unusual Angle: During a brief moment while equipment was being moved around the B&O roundhouse, this normally-obstructed broadside view of B&O "Camel" No. 305 became... (more)

Here comes MARC P875 slowly approaching the Gaithersburg train station on a Sunny Wednesday.

Power Move with Cars Amtrak 30 rolls out of Cumberland with more engines than cars. Up front is a regular P42, then a seldom-seen Dash 8, and then 4 brand new ALC-42 Chargers being deliver... (more)

One of the seven Amtrak Platinum Mist GG-1s is southbound rounding the big superelevated curve north of Aberdeen's Amtrak station in March 1978- not long before the installation of concrete ties o... (more)

The January 1976-built southbound E-60 No. 973 whips around the big superelevated curve just north of Aberdeen's Amtrak station in March 1978- prior to the installation of concrete ties on this pa... (more)

UP 7766 leads new SEPTA Sprinter locomotives eastbound across the Susquehanna River.

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's 1309 enters Cumberland Station under her own power for the first time ever. This event turned a new chapter in a storied history of the WMSR.

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's C&O2-6-6-2 H-6 Class #1309 rounds the curve at Bone Cave with hoppers and a caboose in tow towards Helmstetter's Curve.

In January, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad announced the acquisition of the Georges Creek Railway, a 12-mile line spanning from Borden Shaft, MD to Westernport, MD for freight and passenger ... (more)

No. 967, an E60CH with head-end power, is pulling a northbound Amfleet-equipped train past Aberdeen in the late spring of 1976.

“Seven, Count ‘Em…7”
RF&P 145 plus six additional bring CSX R171 (formerly OBSS), the Orange Blossom Special-South, west through Rosedale on the (former B&O) Philadelphia... (more)

B&O Unlocked. The B&O Railroad Museum is running a year long program in 2024 to allow visitors to go inside of a different piece of equipment each month on select days. In January it was fo... (more)

The NS yard crew was switching out some cars in Bayview on this sunny November day.

I gave myself some afternoon railfanning for my birthday. I had been striking out most of the day but saw this guy getting ready to go at Bayview, so off I went to get ahead of him.