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)

An eastbound mixed freight pulls through Roddy's Sag between Philson and Glencoe, Pa.

On a picture perfect afternoon, CSX westbound freight Q416 has just exited Harpers Ferry tunnel and across the Potomac River as it heads for Cumberland.

Q416 crosses the Potomac into Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Q416 heads towards Brunswick Yard for a crew change before the final leg to cumberland, MD.

Spring Is Coming! Really! Or at least it did come in 2008 (and every other year during which I have been alive!) and it will come again. And then there will be lots of green and, in plac... (more)

The "Ambrose" CPL signals in the late spring of 2011. Today, the signal is gone and nothing remains to indicate they were once here.

Pulling hard leaving Brunswick Yard after making it's drop off and pick up is Rocky Mount, NC to Cumberland, MD manifest Q416 and it five engine consist rolling through the Weverton interlocking. ... (more)

Manifest Q416 crosses the Potomac River from Marlyand into West Virginia with an SD70MAC 4769, SD40-2 8436 and C40-8W 7707.

Beards Road Crossing in Berkeley County, WV along the North Mountain Grade has two s-curves and cut on each side. Here the gates come down as Q416 is about to turn the corner around Paxton Cut.

Q416-09 westbound towards Cumberland Maryland

NB CSX Q416 eases out of the Outbound Lead at Charlie Baker and slides by the passenger platform in Rocky Mount, NC on a very hot and humid Memoral Day as it heads north to Cumberland, MD. Note th... (more)