A loaded coal train wraps around the reverse s-curve at the Keystone Viaduct just a few miles prior to reaching the summit of the Sand Patch grade.
A loaded Virginia Power coal drag lugs upgrade at the Keystone Viaduct on CSX's Keystone Subdivision. In a few miles, the train will reach the summit of the Sand Patch grade and stop before contin... (more)
An empty CSX oil train with BNSF run-through power is about to crest the summit as it heads west for a re-load. March is really going out like a lion as evidenced by the near white out conditions ... (more)
"Pumpkins at the Patch" With BNSF run-through power on the point, a spring snow storm covers Sandpatch with a layer of snow as empty oil cans crest the summit at Sandpatch on CSX's Keystone sub.
As seen from the former Western Maryland Salisbury viaduct, eastbound CSX S368 rolls along the B&O Keystone Sub. under the lead power of two BNSF locomotives.
Standing on the bridge that once carried freight trains of the Western Maryland, S261 drifts downgrade as it heads west through Meyersdale, Pa.
Two CSX "Logomotives" 983 and 984 shove hard on U 823 on the west slope of Sand Patch, 130 loads, two GE's up front.
West bound Q 259 eases down hill as on track two an eastbound autorack, Q 276, with a long load of new cars and trucks gets ready to slip down the east slope, here at the summit of Sand Patch. Not... (more)
Ex UP, now CREX 9042 is working easy here as it leads a loaded eastbound autorack under the signals at Yoder.
Q138, a container train, heads eastbound here for Cumberland and points east.
A pair of Reading units trail two B&O's as they work uphill west of Meyersdale, PA. They will soon pass under the high now abandoned Western Maryland steel trestle that crosses the valley.
A slow moving coal drag grinds East through the "S" curve at salisbury towards the summit of Sandpatch Grade.
Several years before a highway project changed the view, Q384 works upgrade towards Sand Patch with a trio of Geeps.
A pair of units, lead by Helm 8169, brings a short train under route 219 just west of Meyersdale on a very snowy February day.
