B&O caboose C-2929 carries the markers on a three car Beardstown local as it crosses the ICG/GM&O in downtown Springfield, IL.

"CPL"-style railroad signal on the former B&O Railroad (now CSX), near Vine St, Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is visible in the background.

RS-97 has a pair of B&O blue GP-40s as it rolls thru the curve in downtown Pavilion. The 3763 had been on lease to the ATSF, and the new number 3 stenciled under the cab window is already fading. ... (more)

RS-97 passes the carnage from a recent wreck in the curves at Rock Glen. The power is really working hard as it claws to pull RS-97 up the grade to Gainesville, NY. This part of the line had frequ... (more)

Chesie System had been infiltrating the the Baltimore and Ohio for several years when I took this picture of a long cut of empty hoppers heading to the coal fields south of Philipi.

I stood on the route 50 bridge for several hours. Then snow fluries moved in and my feet started to freeze. Another great coal job from Grafton showed up with F unit and GP-9. I grabed the shot an... (more)

On an unseasonably warm April afternoon, B&O GP30 6909 and an unidentified GP38 wait patiently at the Stanley Interlocking for a favorable signal into Conrail's Stanley Yard. I vividly recall the... (more)

On my birthday in 1985, I was photographing trains on the elevated Illinois Central Railroad right-of-way near Riverdale Interlocking in Riverdale, IL, when I noticed a long westbound transfer fre... (more)

B&O E8As 26 and 26A at service facility near Union Station

B&O "National limited" behind E6A 1410 and E7A 1425 in Union Station

Going to GW and living in Georgetown, I had witnessed the B&O Georgetown local from the inside of a Metro Bus on K Street at night. But this was the only time I saw it in daylight. Here it is pass... (more)

A pristine B&O caboose, decked out in full Capitol Dome paint, trots along at the end of CSX's Lorain local. How many years did this caboose have to wait for the paint scheme on the locomotives to... (more)

A sunburst consist from the B&O makes a move past John's camera. For more color classics, click here