An eastbound rack train waits to leave town on Christmas Eve.
D790's power pulls to a stop in front of the joint CSX/W&W station.
The W&W's Inwood-Hagerstown turn heads south near Martinsburg with a very shiny SD9 on the point.
This is how I like to remember Brunswick, old 2nd generation Geeps in predecessor paint and a roundhouse in the background.
By 1991, many of the freights on the RF&P were only stopping at Pot Yard to add or remove a cab signal equipped unit and change crews. A few would still tie up in the old yard, such as this south... (more)
Parked behind the Cumberland shop, 4230 poses for a portrait in the snow. Just over six years earlier, Kevin Piper shot this unit in Riverdale, IL.
2638 rolls past MK Tower before taking a trip up the M&K branch.
Scenes like this were still fairly common along former B&O lines in the 80's. In 1988, CSX's Mountain Sub still had active towers in Grafton, Hardman, Rowlesburg, Altamont, Keyser, and Cumberland... (more)
Geeps in three different paint schemes idle away outside of the venerable shop in Rowlesburg.
My first attempt at photographing a grain train on the former P&WV was partially successful, the train was found at Monessen but unfortunately it had already outlawed.
After working in Clairton, 2666 heads west through the short (310 ft.) Ravensburg Tunnel.
The turned signal at Gladden is a reminder of how busy this line was in the P&WV and N&W eras.
301 heads for Mifflin Jct. with a short train of gondolas.
Like so many other locations along the W&LE's east end, this spot is being rapidly overgrown by trees and weeds. Surrounded by the encroaching vegetation and PAT's South Busway, 6349 heads east w... (more)
As the afternoon sun sinks lower and lower, the W&LE finally gets access to the yard after waiting on a couple of CSX freights to clear.
