“RPPY Incognito”
It may look like unit coal, but it’s actually D&H RPPY (Rouses Point, NY to Potomac Yard, VA), symbolled as R403 on CSX, powered by NS C39-8 8605 and NS GP38AC 411... (more)

Summit of the Alleghanies

A westbound Baltimore & Ohio train of empty hoppers approaches the crest of seventeen mile grade at Altamont Maryland. There is a sign just west of there ... (more)

Peak autumn foliage on Halloween, with a sparkling clean Sprinter leading this Northeast Regional into the station. If you look close, you'll see the first car is the 9800.

Looking as though it is about to enter into warp speed, the Veterans unit emits an arc on its way toward DC.

I heard through a friend that the B&O was testing SD60 demonstrators out of Cumberland, Maryland. Arriving in Cumberland, we learned that the EMD-4 was leading a train that would head west on the ... (more)

Little Joe Stalin’s Locomotives

That’s what Milwaukee Road crews called that road’s twelve big electrics that were nearly identical to this South Shore example, seen here at ... (more)

Just over a month after the horrific collision between Amtrak 94 (The Colonial) and Conrail ENS121 on January 4, 1987, an all-GP38-2 set (CR 8188, 8266, 8185) leads an unidentified Conrail ... (more)

“Off the Showroom Floor…Almost”
This pair of Chessie System units looks to have seen some very limited revenue service, but, having just been built in August, they certainly hadn�... (more)

Four for the price of one. Northbound traffic was halted (trains were stopped) and stacked up from an earlier weather event. Fortunately for me I had my camera and PPE with me when a cond... (more)

Q409-04 with an ex New York Central E9 in the consist, rolls through the interlocking at Carroll, with downtown Baltimore towering above in the background.

CSX R171 (OBSS, Orange Blossom Special-South), with RF&P GP40 123 plus three, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) Philadelphia Subdivision, shortly after nine o�... (more)

Group of railfans that love the WM decided to come out to Westernport to polish 3 locomotives on a nice sunny day.

WM 734 blasts around a curve and by the photographers on a Carl Franz Photo Special.

A late running 38A, with a pair of SD80MAC's for power, crosses Amtrak's Susquehanna River bridge.

WM 734 rolls around the apex of Helmstetter's Curve amid dramatic side lighting and billowy white smoke. This was one of the Carl Franz Photo Specials run to raise money for the Helmstetter Farm F... (more)