“Nine Score and Four Years Ago”
Northern Central Railway’s “York” hauls a four coach passenger train south through Seitzville on the return leg of a Howard Tunnel excursion on ... (more)

“A Flare (Flair) for Hauling Stone”
As light engines, Maryland Midland’s stone train (UBST) is crossing LeGore Bridge Road, about to enter the Barrick Quarry property to fetch sto... (more)

“Assault with Intent”
Coming out of the horseshoe curve at the Hogpen Signals near Sabillasville, Maryland Midland’s UBHF(W) is hoisting 40 cement loads (ca 5600 tons) and o... (more)

“Where Eagles Dare”
Led by PESX 8250, Potomac Eagle Scenic’s Green Spring Special slices through the cut at Grace Cabin on the SBVR, southbound, on the return to Wapocomo S... (more)

“You Pull 4300 Tons…”
...and what’ya get? Well, with a compromised power assortment, you get a stall, just moments after this exposure. With 31 cement loads out of Union Bridge, ... (more)

“Bridge to Yesteryear”
The eastbound Pennsylvanian, Amtrak 42(27), dives under the cast-in-place concrete arch bridge that has carried Port Royal’s Market Street over the Pe... (more)

“Cat Ears, Revisited”
Destined for Shaw Mines, PA, coal empties on No. 1 Main exit the 1592-foot Graham Tunnel (in Allegany County, MD) and immediately cross Kessler Bridge into Morg... (more)

“Cat Ears”
A massive westbound hopper train, in 5+3+0 configuration, exits the 993-foot Carothers Tunnel on the famed Magnolia Cutoff, which was opened for business by the B&O in 191... (more)

“Watch Your Six”
A Reading & Northern passenger conductor aboard RBMN 92848 protects the shove of a southbound Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway “Gorge Train” returning to Jim Thorpe f... (more)

“Fade to Pink”
With its bright red and silver paint now faded, GCK 101 sits—stack capped—waiting on a tank car of kaolin slurry that will never come, at the shuttered Verso paper... (more)

“Hammerhead”
Western Maryland Scenic’s freshly-painted B32-8 made its second revenue trip—this time long hood forward—on September 23rd, hauling the Frostburg Flyer, seen here ... (more)

“Fashionably Late”
Amtrak 30(22), the eastbound Capitol Limited, arrives Cumberland at 10:05. Late, yes, but by only 45 minutes–not so late as the clock on the historic (184... (more)

“Fireball”
The newest addition to WMSR’s fleet is WMSR/NIWX 558, a former Norfolk Southern B32-8, seen here arriving Frostburg, running LHF, with the regularly-scheduled Frostbu... (more)

“Paint It Black”
With plenty of power at hand, easy work is made of pulling lengthy manifest 11Z (East Binghamton-Knoxville) west through the Franklin County farmlands of the Cumberl... (more)

“High Water Mark”
Westbound CSX Q015-13 (toward camera) and CSX Q136-13 (going away) meet at the tiny village of Sand Patch, PA, a quarter mile west of the “Summit of the Allegheni... (more)