CSX coal train autostarts while waiting for a crew as the sunsets behind building storm clouds on a humid Summer evening.
P873 backs off onto the fuel track after unloading it's passengers. Canon EOS 10D w/ 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/400 sec. @ F/8.
SD80MAC 800 sits in Brunswick as the sole power on a loaded coal train. Canon EOS 10D w/ 24mm F/2.8 lens. 1/250 sec. @ F/6.3.
RG302 sits on #5 runner in Brunswick, MD, as a thunderstorm approaches. Canon EOS 10D w/ 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/400 sec. @ F/8.
CSX 4742 sits with all but one rear wheel off the rail, blocking track one in Brunswick on July 18. A small crowd gathered to watch a crane crew from Richmond Va. re-rail the locomotive. This wa... (more)
CSX and Hulcher crews survey the damage to track 4. Several cars derailed in the vicinity of a switch from track 4 to the main on track 2.
After a hard rain, a fog develops over the tracks, while sister units 518 and 517 sit idle with a coal drag at West Brunswick.
A track inspector on #2 allows this great angle at the curve at MP76 near the new 84 Lumber Distribution Center. Canon EOS 10D w/ 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/320 sec. @ F/8.
CSX 4704 waits patiently in the shadow of the MARC consist as the loaded commuter train begins to accelerate eastbound toward Washington DC.
CSX 4704 pulls a train of covered hoppers eastbound on track 2 toward the Maple Avenue crossing, assisted by HLCX 6512
They don't call these the Blue Ridge Mountains for nothing! Canon EOS 10D w/ Monopod-mounted 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/400 sec. @ F/8.
A pair of Chessie Geeps bring this eastbound into Brunswick.
SD40 #7550 pulls a Chessie GP40 off of the Brunswick turntable. The roundhouse in the background was demolished in the mid 90's, and the Budd cars at right are another vestige of the past.
Looking sharp in B&O blue, the 2008 works Brunswick with another GP38 in Chessie paint.
K951 blasts off to Millville on track 2 into the warm evening sun. Canon EOS 10D w/ Monopod-mounted 70-200mm F/4L lens. 1/400 sec. @ F/8.
