734 pulls into WMSR's Cumberland Station for the first run of the season! She's sporting newly rebuilt running gear, springs and tires..ready for a long season's work.

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.

Lite power sits next to the Amtrak Capitol Limited. Photo taken at super telephoto length; not trespassing or in harm's way.

Class leader and still hanging onto an older color scheme on the point.

WM 7595 sits at Chessie System's Cumberland Shops along with BO 4041, a GP40. The unit is in need of work, and in the fall of 1981 the economy was such that it was likely to sit here for awhile. M... (more)

The former B&O CPLs guard the east end of Cumberland Yard as a power set of Canadian Pacific and CSX engines change tracks. The CPLs are slated for replacement in the near future.

C&O 7562, a 1966 SD40 was captured in its original scheme while waiting for servicing at the Chessie System Locomotive Shops in Cumberland, MD. B&O GP40-2 No. 4117 was a September 1972 graduate of... (more)

Arriving after a run to Frostburg.

The Helper passes Viaduct Jct. Tower in Cumberland on a sunny summer evening in 1995.

Veteran SD40 4616, looking all beat up in its faded Chessie livery, works the yard at Cumberland one evening in August 1995.

734 descends Helmsetter's Curve in a drenching downpour.

Sometimes things just seem to come together as was the case on this particular Saturdays excursion with the holiday season some fresh snow and ice & the star attraction of the night was none other... (more)

Amtrak #100 leads train PO30 Sitting under the I-68 bridge during it's morning passenger stop

A Conrail visitor leads an eastbound grain train by ND Tower. Looks like there was a pretty good amount of snow on Sand Patch, judging by the accumulation on 6038!