“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)

“Don’t Judge a Book…”
“WM”/MMID 97A (ex-MILW 97A), attired in Western Maryland speed lettering, rests at the Union Bridge shops on a Sunday in mid-October, 1985. Despite its... (more)

“Prodigal Son”
UBHF brings 55 empty cement hoppers destined for the Lehigh plant in Union Bridge east through Middleburg. Today’s power includes a new addition to the Maryland Midl... (more)

“UBHF: OCD Edition”
After exchanging cars with CSX in Highfield, all four of Maryland Midland’s SD40-2s (each shrouded in an SD45 carbody), arranged in numerical order, brin... (more)

“Hold Your Horses”
MMID 3449 leads Maryland Midland’s UBHF, with 50 Lehigh cement loads–west, out of the Monocacy River valley and through the farmland just east of Rocky Ridge p... (more)

“Gettin' Stoned”
With 26 stone loads destined for Barrick’s Finksburg Terminal, Maryland Midland’s UBST rolls northbound through New Midway, past the landmark Kramer’s Piano Sh... (more)

“Take This Job…”
A shoving platform, CSXT 900077, which is a former N&W class C-31 caboose (NW 518500), is used to protect the extensive reverse move made by CSX’s “Letterkenny... (more)

“Homeward Bound”
CSX’s “Letterkenny Local” (Hagerstown-Culbertson turn), is headed home after interchanging with the Pennsylvania & Southern Railway at the Cumberland Valley Bu... (more)

“Mason and Dixon”
NS 203, the Rutherford, PA–Atlanta, GA intermodal, led by NS SD70ACC 1826, blasts by the PA/MD state line at HW 68.2 on the Lurgan District.

“Tie on the Old Feedbag”
Maryland Midland’s UBHF, still operating on its winter schedule despite the calendar, heads west with 20 cement loads through Detour, Maryland. At 17:18, i... (more)

EBT M-7, a GE 50/55-tonner purchased from Algoma Steel in 1993, was pressed into excursion service during East Broad Top’s 60th Anniversary (of the start of tourist service) Celebration on Augus... (more)

AMTK 145, in Phase III livery, leads Amtrak 43(27), the westbound Pennsylvanian, past Leaman Place, in advance of its scheduled stop at Lancaster. The Phase III paint was applied for the 40... (more)

A pair of GEs has these export coal loads well in hand as they exit Casners Curve, along the Juniata River between Mifflin and Port Royal, PA. NS Y90 is destined for the Port of Baltimore.

There remains a fair amount of coal moving across the former PRR Middle Division, but most of it is for export. Witness this Y91 (an extra 591), coal empties out of the Port of Baltimore, westboun... (more)