A heavy coal train is rolling through high altitude countryside past remnants of a coal mining town that has bit the dust.

Finding these WM F-units at the Chessie engine facilities at Lincoln Park was a nice surprise.

Western Maryland K-2 Pacific #202 - Built by Baldwin in July of 1912, this engine was retired in 1952 and later donated "to the children of Hagerstown, MD". She is one of only two WM survi... (more)

The rarely photographed Western Maryland K-2 Pacific - One of only two WM survivors, #202 sits protected here at City Park in Hagerstown, MD on a beautiful Summer day. 3/4 view Railroad: Western Maryland Railway
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-2
Location: Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: WM 202
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June, 2010

A WM excursion to Gettsburg, May 1955, gets ready to depart. Scheduled passenger service to Gettysburg ended 12/31/42. This view is one of a group of restored Ansco-Color slides in a collection ... (more)

A 1955 PRR K4-led train took riders to the WM. At Gettysburg they take a few shots of their train now powered by Alco RS-3s. The first car in the otherwise all-PRR passenger consist is a WM ca... (more)

A group of folks have made a museum out of the old Western Maryland Depot in Westernport, and this well kept WM "northeastern" caboose sets in a park across the street. Note the neat old watchman'... (more)

A pan of a WM freight heading down the hill beneath one last splash of fall color, just hanging on. A Carl Franz charter. To see Mitch Goldman's take on a WM caboose pan, see Railroad: Western Maryland Railway
Locomotive: Caboose
Location: Frostburg, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: WM 1813
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 26, 2009

Western Maryland GP35 3577 (Class DS-28) represents an order for five of the second-generation geeps which were delivered in December 1963. They arrived in the then-current black paint scheme and ... (more)

Western Maryland locomotives were literally "lounging" all over the Maryland Junction Engine Facility on Memorial Day, 1975. F7A 241 represents the second order of F7s for the WM. Altogether, sixt... (more)

The Rochester to Salamanca Chessie System freight is beginning the 1.3 % climb to Gainsville. The freight has a very colorful lashup led by a WM unit. The train will be down to a crawl soon, as it... (more)

Another site I visited frequently was Pine Junction, a very busy location in Gary, IN. It was a junction between two different Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad subdivisions, the New York... (more)

Here is a scene from the Spruce festivities during Cass Railfan Weekend 2009. Western Maryland power in the form of an FP7 and BL2 head up a hopper train with Shay #6 "pushing". On the near track ... (more)

The 1975 Memorial Day holiday found me wandering around the Cumberland, Maryland area and searching for trains, but none were to found! I decided to cross the border and see what was happening ov... (more)