Freight heads to Pittsburgh! Or as close to Pittsburgh as the Western Maryland can get before handing off to another line. This peaceful rural scene belies the magnitude of the grade ahead... (more)

WM #729 brings a caboose past the old C&O Canal basin towards Cumberland Station in preparation for a day of pusher service. Part of a Lerro Productions charter. This line is rarely photographed... (more)

The Packard, a classic! Waiting out the passing of a freight, at this unsignaled crossing, as it pounds up the hill.

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WM 729 brings a freight around the bend at Helmstetter's Curve. (WM #734 as WM #729 during a Lerro Productions photo charter - former LS&I #18/#34,)

Stop, look and listen! A family takes pause to admire Western Maryland's large 2-8-0 return light from an excursion to Frostburg, MD.

When "I think I can" won't cut it - add a pusher! WM #729 is employed in pusher service to assist a movement up the mountains and into Frostburg, MD.

WM #734 brings yet another train up the mountain and on towards Frostburg on a beautiful sunny afternoon in October.

729 pulls its train bound for Frostburg past Helmstetter's Farm.

729 charges up the mountain toward the town of Frostburg.

Western Maryland 2-8-0 #734 brings a heavily patronized excursion to it's destination of Frostburg, MD surrounded by the foliage of another Fall.

Finally the wait is over! This repairman has been waiting for a while but now that the pusher is in sight he knows the private crossing is about to clear.

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Quiet no more! A quiet Sunday morning is disrupted by a passing freight which is cresting the grade and heading for the tunnel.

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2010 WMSRR Fall Photo Run up around Frostburg

Beginning the climb to Frostburg.

Thundering through the Narrows.