Cumberland, MD 5/26/2012 - But for the "GCK" reporting marks on the side sill and an air conditioning unit placed above the cab of SD-35 7436, it would be hard to tell that this photograph was not... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 5/16/2012 - C40-8 7557 and its SD-70 companion is kicking up a lot of dust as Q-249 and a long string of empty autoracks passes the historic Harper's Ferry depot on the CSX Cumb... (more)

Cumberland, MD 5/10/2012 - Eastbound autorack train Q-216 is in full throttle as it passes the B&O Color Position Light signals at the West Hump interlocking behind CREX C-40-8 9042. In the gliste... (more)

Brunswick, MD 4/19/2012 - It's been a long day at work and a long train ride from Washington, D.C. as these commuters walk towards their cars and the final leg of their travel home. This ritual ta... (more)

Brunswick, MD 4/7/2012 - Westbound empty hopper train E-725 rolls out of the shadows beneath the South WB signals on the number two main track on its way to the mines west of Cumberland, MD. In th... (more)

Cumberland, MD 3/18/2008 - A young railfan is in the making as he waits for the trip of his short lifetime aboard Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited to Washington, D.C. Judging by his Thomas the T... (more)

Weverton, MD 3/5/2012 - How CSX makes money: Westbound Q-416 is leaving Brunswick yard bound for Cumberland, MD with just seven cars behind four locomotives (some presumably offline). The Richmond... (more)

Brunswick, MD 3/17/2012 - An unseasonably warm St. Patrick's Day finds the pear trees in full bloom at the Brunswick passenger station as CSX AC4400CW 305 leads 135 empty hoppers through the cross... (more)

Lander, MD 3/15/2012 - A locomotive type that once led the hottest intermodal trains over this former B&O mainline, the GP-40-2 has been relegated mostly to local service, as in this Brunswick-bas... (more)

Lander, MD 3/15/2012 - Amtrak's PO-30 is eastbound along the C&O Canal east of Lander Road, passing the Bald Eagle hiker-biker campground. The canal once hauled coal and other industrial commoditi... (more)

Point of Rocks, MD 3/9/2012 - Seen from high atop the nearby Catoctin ridgeline, CSX E-727 brings a string of 130 empty hoppers by the historic B&O depot at Point of Rocks. The train is on the Met... (more)

Keymar, MD 12/27/2011 -- Travelling at 15 m.p.h. (digital numbers), the engineer has applied a seventeen pound reduction to his air brakes (gauges) to slow his train for the siding ahead, beckoned... (more)

Weverton, MD 3/5/2012 - Taken from the public road crossing at Weverton as the train drifts away, a pair of SD-40-2s trail behind 150 loaded coal hoppers on U-827. It is somewhat uncommon to see h... (more)

Brunswick, MD 3/1/2012 - The rain had just ended and the sun come up over Brunswick as the eastbound rock-runner Q-751 blasted by the crossovers at North WB, the new interlocking plant remotely co... (more)

Knoxville, MD 3/1/2012 - Westbound Q-249 is behind CW-40-8 7563 as it rolls through the tiny village of Knoxville, MD near the Weaverton interlocking on the CSX Cumberland Subdivision. Seen from h... (more)