517 and friend front a long line of empty hoppers, waiting for crew on an east freight track. Left of them is a 55 car loaded ballast train with two AC44's on each end, the power needed for 17 mil... (more)

2427 still has her BNSF markings, but I believe someone else owns her, and the switcher behind her now. 7761, third in the trio, is probably headed out to Huntington or to Georgia. out back at the... (more)

Just before sunrise, CSXT 644 rests on a freight track in the East Keyser Yard. Last evening, these loads were brought down 17 mile grade, and later this day the two engines will become helpers an... (more)

WMSR fireman Dan Morris cools off and checks the inside of this left hand turn for the engineer as we climb steep grade and sharp curves just west of Brush Run Tunnel. The photo was taken from t... (more)

At this end of the Cumberland Freight Yards, is the caller's office, and this manifest with what looks to be a nearly new "ACE" in the lead. is waiting for a new crew.

Kevin Rice gives 734 rods a good greasing before she makes her first run of the 2015 season.

These two faded "dark future" engines are in a rare move here, with coal headed west over the viaduct. It's going to a West Virginia power plant. Most coal comes from that state, east bound! Late ... (more)

8016, in C&O colors, leads the Potomac Eagle around big "Eagle Rock" in the rugged valley.

Ex Conrail 7368 leads Q 336 under the Route 40 road bridge as it nears the Pear Street Crossing. The train is eastbound, just down off Sand Patch and through the "Narrows" into Cumberland.

Early on a Sunday morning..all is quiet, and this trio are the Sand Patch helpers resting in the "pocket" at Cumberland. Note the early CSX paint on the middle unit, the 8508.

Three nice looking W&LE engines lead hoppers of talconite into Cumberland. The locos where fairly clean, the lead engine an SD40-3, and two SD 40-2's, the center engine an ex KCS loco still spor... (more)

853 and 212 wait for crew next to famous old "D" tower. Hard to imagine at the state the old tower is in now how it must have looked during the busy days of steam at Grafton.

A short eastbound container train hustles east thru the interchange as an empty hopper train with another 70 Mac in the lead waits for signal to go west at Mexico.

3060 leads a GP 15 in NS paint and a string of GP 15's still in Conral Blue. I suspect these engines are or soon will be off the roster, and probably on the way to Larry's Electric!

543 and 611 wait for the power off Q317, two SD 40-2's, former BNSF power now HLCX, to move forward and pick them up for a trip to Grafton.