734's graphited nose gleams in the sun after another completed trip up the hill to Frostburg. The crew has tied down the passenger cars and will cut 734 so she can move on to the turntable, and th... (more)

A rain dappled photo of 734 after she hauled eight cars to Frostburg on rain slick rail. A great job by the beefy old consolidation.

Mike Spooler is at the throttle of 734 as she puts on a show thru the Narrows. Just cool and damp enough for nice steam!

The SD40-2's, three to our right of 6485, were taken from a line of them out back of the shops. I think they are to be rewired here at Cumberland, sent to Huntington for mechanical work and paint.... (more)

72 leads the Capitol Limited down the Sand Patch east slope, eastbound and here on wrong main, running around a slower manifest. She's already 15 minutes late!

149 and friend bring West Virginia coal into Cumberland, coming off the mountain sub traveling eastbound and crossing over to the west bound main, along side of busy Henderson Avenue.

The Capital Limited picks up track speed as it passes Mexico Tower and a waiting coal empty as it heads east for Washington DC.

On a quiet Sunday morning, all was at rest..until I took this last photo. Soon 517and 539, unseen back of 517, a helper set, will get a crew, and the Burro crane will get an operator. The standin... (more)

The morning sun bursts on the nose of 289 as the morning mist begins to recede. Before noon, this train will crew up and these locomotives will help shove this coal to the Mt Storm power some 55 m... (more)

Low evening sun bothers the crew, the conductor's visor is down, and the engineer is doing the same. This autorack his headed west, out of Cumberland.

The Pennsylvannian is a welcome sight after many frieght trains. Here she slips almost silently down hill towards Altoona.

CSX 358 heads a string of empty hoppers, just down from the Mt Storm Power Plant. The string of empty aluminum hoppers basking in the morning sun, show signs of heavy use, the insides well polishe... (more)

129 is stopped, waiting to move back to drop off seven cars on the storage track, while Burro Crane CSX 9511 and the track gang replace a switch. The CPL signal bridge over the train is on borrowe... (more)

916 and 721 forward eighty loads of coal east out of Cumberland after a recrew for the crew that brought the train down from Grafton.

On a beautiful fall day, 459 and friends bring the Q out over the old west end Viaduct, headed for Keyser and Grafton, and points west. In the background, I can hear WMSR 734's hancock as it handl... (more)