A worn out, old Alco sits just outside the old car shops at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, lashed up with a BL2 and some sort of slug. I am unsure of the origins or plans for this... (more)

“The Not-So-Ubiquitous Chessie GP40-2”
Sure, in the 80’s you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Chessie GP40-2. But this example was unique in that it was named, ... (more)

THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL A westbound is about to exit the Harpers Ferry Tunnel under Maryland Heights. *Note, did clone out some wires*

A Chessie System GP30 leads an eastbound at Miller, on the B&O Garrett Subdivision, in 1977.

A single B&O Geep is seen traversing through Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

A pair of Chessie System EMDs bring a manifest freight west through Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

A B&O GP30 brings a Western Maryland caboose across the diamonds at Dolton on their return to nearby Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

NA Tower or "cabin" in official B&O company documents controlled the interlocking at Martinsburg and Hobbs (9 miles east) until it's closure in 2003. The building was built in 1898 o... (more)

B&O coal train led by an SD35/GP9 duo crosses under the Western Maryland.

The B&O No. 7402, built by EMD in July of 1964, is part of the collection stored outside at the B&O Museum in Baltimore. If I'm not mistaken, it's one of only two preserved SD35s, the other being... (more)

Sitting adjacent to the 1839 realignment of the Baltimore and Ohio mainline over Parr's Ridge is this restored I-5D Cupola caboose built by the B&O between 1925 and 1929. After retirement from th... (more)

Looks like the forecast on January 21, 1980 was for snow! A pair of B&O GP35's are in front of the Brooks Ave. yard office in Gates, NY.

Older than the former Clinchfield F-units that it is switching, a 1948 Baltimore and Ohio NW2 is readying an excursion train at Camden Station in Baltimore. The switcher began life in the Chesapea... (more)

A blue B&O GP40 leads two Chessies on a westbound freight from Philadelphia at White Marsh, Maryland.

Durbin & Greenbrier Valley's "New Tygart Flyer" passes a rock cut at Poe Run Road as it approaches Elkins on the return trip from the "High Falls of Cheat". According to RRPA, ... (more)