An Acela heads north up the center track at full speed. Odenton has seen many trains pass by since a station was first built there by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (already under PRR control... (more)

MP 11 means Q296 has just passed the Kensington detector and CPLs and is approaching the station on its way east.

So close you can almost taste it!

Commuters head home at dusk on a cold day, with snow on the marina piers; most boats are out of the water and in storage for the winter.

The rock runner pulls by an indicator light apparently used to call hard of hearing passengers back into the station for a non-aural message.

Q276-16 passes the CPLs at Kensington and is approaching the MARC station.

A trash train waits to head north to Interbay yard as a southbound intermodal train just passes. Behind them looms the Louis Dreyfus grain elevator, being enshrouded by fog. The scene is bisecte... (more)

The rock runner passes by the Gaithersburg station, build in 1884 and still used by MARC passengers and Saturday coffee drinkers.

Diesels make for good charters too! One of WMSR's GP30s poses at the station at the end of a WMSR/Lerro mini-charter.

The SB Palmetto exits DC's urban core and heads for the Long Bridge to Virginia and points south. The building in the background is new, modestly altering this scene.

Amtrak 540 pushes north out of town at dusk as a few rays of light sneak between the buildings onto the tracks.

The Carolinian heads north under the SB signals at Slaters Lane. This view is from the bike path of the recently created Potomac Yard Park, a narrow park, maybe 30 yards wide, that sits alongside... (more)

As the sun sets the crew puts the engine away for the night in the enginehouse. Sunset glint catches various shiny surfaces as it makes its way inside.

Q415 starts off to the east, passing the Maple Ave. signals at the EB MARC platform.