E725 heads across the Viaduct in Cumberland onto the Mountain Sub.

CSX 988 Leads train E-725 West at Shen

"How Tomorrow Moves In the Bitter Cold:" With temperatures in the teens and snow covering the ground from the previous night, a westbound empty coal train rolls past Lock 33 on the C... (more)

Emerging from Harpers Ferry tunnel and crossing the Potomac River into West Virginia, westbound coal empties from Baltimore follow the former B&O mainline west woard Cumberland, destined for the c... (more)

E725 heads west on the Cumberland Sub while tourists check out the view from the walkway along the Shenandoah Sub.

Ambrose, WV 2/11/2012 - This remote location along the Potomac River, just west of Hancock, WV, has been a popular photo location--and thoroughly published in many venues--in recent months, as the... (more)

Probably one of the few places on a mountain railroad where you can see an entire empty coal drag.

E725 rolls under the B&O Ambrose CPL Signal Bridge near Berkeley Springs, WV on January 7th, 2012. This location along "CPL Alley" on the CSX Cumberland Sub will lose this symbolic icon of the B&O... (more)

Empty coal drag passes under the signal bridge at Ambrose which in a short manner of time will be taken down as part of the "upgrades" along the Cutoff.

As daylight comes to an end veteran tower operator L E Lee waves to a passing empty coal train. With the closure of WB Tower on Dec 9, 2011, last open tower on the Baltimore Division, Mr. Lee will... (more)

As CPLs fall and towers are demolished, the Mountain Sub is slowly losing some of its inherent character. Fortunately, at least one relic from the past should remain for years to come, the substa... (more)

As the tail end of Q316 clears, the conductor walks back to his waiting empty hopper train. E725 had to meet one more train here before continuing west.

In the evening using, coal empties split the CPL's at Magnolia, headed for Cumberland.

Kicking up snow at a pretty good clip, this empty hopper train seems worlds away from the menacing Seventeen Mile grade that it has just over come as it blows past silent MK Tower and the town of ... (more)

E725 crosses the Potomac River past the tranquil town of Harpers Ferry which is about to be hit by a line of severe thunderstorms approaching from the west. This line of storms part of a strong co... (more)