Western Maryland 1309 tackles the 3% grade on the former Cumberland & Pennsylvania as it crosses Bridge Number 2.

Grab your shots while you can of first generation Acela trains.

Western Maryland 1309 thunders up the grade at Trimble with an 11-car passenger train.

CSXT 911 leads M410-08 across the Susquehanna River bridge.

So glad to see one of my favorite former NS units has found work and in an awesome paint job. Here the photog’s chase train head off westward to clear up for 1309’s runby as the sun begins to... (more)

"Evenings at Price Hill": On November 6, 2022 Western Maryland #1309 thunders up Helmstetter's Curve as seen from Price Hill in a brilliant mountain sunset.

Smoke and steam fills the air above Helmstetter's Curve as Western Maryland #1309 hustles up grade towards Frostburg, MD with a coal hopper train in tow on November 5, 2022.

"Sunnyside": Western Maryland, former C&O, H-6 Mallet #1309 hustles up Sunnyside on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.

TPR 936 shoves drywall loads down the siding at Home Depot.

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 stomps upgrade around Helmstetters Curve with a hopper train in-tow during the Trains Magazine fall photo charter.

Western Maryland #1309 is about to enter the south portal of Brush Tunnel on November 6, 2022 as she hustles north for Frostburg, MD with coal hoppers on tow.

"Frostburg Bound": Western Maryland #1309 digs in as she crosses C&P bridge #2 on November 6, 2022 bound for Frostburg with a train of empty coal hoppers and ballast cars.

Western Maryland H-6 #1309, build by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949, races around Helmstetter's Curve on the former Western Maryland mainline outside of Corriganville, MD on November 6, 2022.

With an intrepid brakeman in a tradition stance and coal fire in the stove there’s a feeling of assurance that the trip will be successful. These little “house cars” were a refuge from cold... (more)

Early in the morning a ghost appears from the mist, returned from the dead, pulling a short train of hoppers bound for Frostburg, but we can imagine Jenkins or Van Leer Junction or many other plac... (more)