Looking at this scene in any book or on the web and you would easily know it was at Paw Paw, WV. The tunnel in the distance is Carothers Tunnel, the western most on the B&O Magnolia Cutoff. NOTICE... (more)

Just west of Paw Paw, WV and technically still on the Magnolia Cutoff lies Little Niagara or as old heads call it "Bird S**t Hollow." This bridge once controlled all four tracks of the Cutoff unti... (more)

It's raining as D721 gets it's signal from the BB Dispatcher off the Hancock Yard siding onto track one at Grasshopper. It slowly creeps along and flips the signal as it reaches the main. In the d... (more)

Looking down on Harpers Ferry, WV and the Potomac River from Maryland Heights. Eastbound Q226 autorack train has just called the "Peachers Mill" signal just out of sight midframe and glides along ... (more)

Something different... A westbound empty hopper trains flips the CPL on track one. I end up painting the cars with my LED lantern I had on me and the train passes. Totally by accident and it wasn'... (more)

The Capitol Limited has been a fixture on this line minus 10 years since 1923. Also a fixture on this former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline are it's color position signals. This week marks t... (more)

Work progresses at "Grasshopper" as the eastbound B&O CPL changes aspects for an eastbound autorack train on track two. In the distance the new siding signals are ready to be cut in and on the oth... (more)

An old horse pulls Q373 over the Potomac River at Magnolia, WV as seen from a top Tunnel Hill.

CSXT 903305, formerly Chesapeake & Ohio 3305, is a M930 ARR type caboose, built in August of 1970 by the International Car Company of Kenton, Ohio 903305 was originally assigned to the C&O at Hint... (more)

On the other side of this ridge sits the Potomac River and Harpers Ferry, WV. Its just after midnight and Q370 has the clear signal to proceed east and enters Harpers Ferry Tunnel. It's lights ill... (more)

At 10,135ft above sea level, it was a bit chilly taking this photo! A late afternoon train arrives at the terminus of the Gornergratbahn, high in the Alps.

Long after presents opened, food eaten, wine drank, and friends departed, a lonely train cuts the silence; rolling under the giant counterweight of the Salmon Bay Bridge

"Fly me to the Moon"... comes to mind as what looks like a spaceship is actually Q400 and it's seven engine consist rolling by Great Cacapon towards the moon filled Sideling Hill Gap along the Po... (more)

Westbound manifest rolls by and flips the Dry Wall signals

PATH train from Newark moves east over the Hackensack River destined for stops in Jersey City and Manhattan. Behind this impressive bridge are two more lift bridges; the Conrail Harsimus Bridge a... (more)