RS-3 switching long cuts of coal hoppers at the overcrowded Elkins yard.

Western Maryland Shay 6 screams through the town of Junior in what is a very West Virginia-looking scene to me. What could be a better birthday present to me!

The sun came out for the second photo run-by location but it was a tough location to use it. Here the train comes around the curve with the photo line set up on the left and the sun coming from th... (more)

Both Western Maryland BL2's are working the Hagerstown yard on this day.

Even though it was just a light power move serving as protection for Shay 6, from the right angles, one could imagine that WM 67 is leading a 70-car freight southward toward Elkins. The satellite ... (more)

Coaling a Shay in the 21st century. With no engine facilities in Elkins, a way to coal the locomotive had to be arranged. A pile of coal was dumped in a nearby parking lot and a backhoe pla... (more)

Besides the photo stop at the High Bridge, the only other runby performed on the northbound Cass to Elkins trip was held at this bridge over the Shavers Fork near Milepost 77, about five miles sou... (more)

After shadowing Big 6 from Cass, Western Maryland FP7 67 and BL2 82 run around the train on the lightly used and overgrown siding at Bowden. The diesels would be used to pull the train through Kel... (more)

After a hard day on the mountain, WM 6 shoves its caboose over the Tygart Valley River and back into the Elkins yard for the night.

The first steam engine along this line in decades definitely brought out both the young and old, as evidenced by this group in Bowden.

WVC's FP7 67 and BL2 82 tagged along on the rear of the train from Elkins to Spruce during Shay 6's return trip to Cass. From Spruce, the diesels returned to Elkins with the WVC passenger equipmen... (more)

Shay 6 performs a photo run-by in the rain at Cheat Bridge as it makes its way back to Cass from Elkins. As an irrelevant side note, a raindrop hit me square in my left eye just after I took this ... (more)

Shay 6 wakes up the neighborhood as it leads its train over the Tygart River early in the morning. The train is making its way down to the depot to board passengers for the epic return trip to Cas... (more)

WM 6 sails over a small dam on the Tygart River on an original Western Maryland trestle during an early morning run.