Attired in Phase VI livery, one of Amtrak’s 50th anniversary commemorative schemes, AMTK 108 brings the eastbound Pennsylvanian, Amtrak 42(6), out of Casners Curve at milepost PT 152.7, a... (more)

Post-storm sky conditions place Tuscarora Mountain in complete shadow at 16:26, while priority intermodal NS 21M (Croxton, NJ-Chicago/63rd St, IL) races west on Track 1, approaching Book’s Cross... (more)

“Beard’s Crossing”
Already 15 minutes late for its 11:01 appointment at Martinsburg, and with 10 miles yet to go, Amtrak 30(1), the eastbound Capitol Limited (CSX P030), on ... (more)

“Never Forget”
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Western Maryland Scenic’s GP30 501 pulls the Frostburg Flyer up the 1.75% grade through Slabtown.

The authentic =W... (more)

Operating as CSX P030, Amtrak 30(10), the Capitol Limited, running about an hour late at 10:48, is eastbound on No. 2 Main at North Branch, just (railroad) east of Cumberland. In less than ... (more)

“Mogul Chocolate Chip”
While en route to Roaring Spring, Everett’s very clean-burning Mogul pulls the 2:30 Ice Cream Special past St. Bernadine’s Monastery at Kladder, on ... (more)

The former N&W 475 is steaming by Esbenshade with the 2 o’clock train, returning west to East Strasburg from Leaman Place, on March 27, 2021.

Coal empties (CSX E784, Baltimore/Curtis Bay to Newell, PA), with CSXT 3428 in charge, head west through Shenandoah Jct.

Locomotives:
(1) CSXT ET44AH 3428
(2) CSXT ES44AH 925<... (more)

"Emmitsburg Jct."
With 43 loads/3 empties, and a full complement of power, Maryland Midland’s UBHF storms west past the long derelict Rocky Ridge Elevator Company at mp 54.1.

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“Tempers Flare”
Having already hoisted 21 cement loads to the CSX interchange at Highfield, UBHF returns east to retrieve the remaining 29 loads, two helpers, and eight empties tied ... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s Lackawanna heritage unit leads the Rutherford-Atlanta intermodal, NS 203, south (timetable west) past a couple of covered hoppers staged on the Martin’s Elevator siding at M... (more)

CSXT 705 and sisters wrestle a 131-car Q416 (Rocky Mount to Cumberland) out of the Potomac River Valley. Here the manifest is westbound on No. 1 Main at Shenandoah Jct., approaching SHEN interlock... (more)

“Take a Ride on the Reading”
After turning at Port Clinton, CNJ 113 leads again on the return leg of the Chris Bost Benefit Excursion, here on the former Reading main line, underneat... (more)

"Forward Progress"
Despite a 09:00 scheduled departure from its Monday night stay in Manassas, the N&W 611 ferry move from Spencer, NC to Leaman Place, PA didn’t O.S. Maugansville unti... (more)

Just east of the borough of Newport, Amtrak 42(21), powered by AMTK 96, negotiates the Newport Curve at 12:24, en route to its next station stop. The eastbound Pennsylvanian may be just a f... (more)