C&O No. 490 steels the spotlight from the equally historic B&O "George Washington" 4-6-2 No. 5300.

C&O No. 490 was built by Alco in 1926 as a Pacific, the C&O rebuilt this engine as ... (more)

B&O EMC EA No. 51

B&O EA No. 51 was the first streamlined diesel locomotive delivered to the B&O in 1937. It set a stylistic precedent for future generations of EMC /EMD streamlined dies... (more)

The Stourbridge Lion

On exhibit at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD, are the remains of the original 1828 built Foster, Rastric & Company steam locomotive, purchased for us... (more)

AMTK No. 646 leads a southbound Regional Express into the station at Aberdeen, MD.

Built in 1943 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, this utilitarian station, barely one story tall with a large over... (more)

After running the east leg of the wye at Leadenhall, coming out of Locust Point, Y164 shoves west to work Clean Harbors on the South Baltimore Industrial Track.

Q216-16 with a very rare for CSX EMD duo, hammers east through Bailey interlocking.

The Chessie Steam Special, led by C&O 614, heads out of Cumberland, Md on its way to Terra Alta, West Virginia.

Bayview local H02 crosses Colgate Creek, with 32 cars of export John Deere tractors for Dundalk Marine Terminal.

“The Bridge on the Creek Little Pipe”
MMID’s UBST, with crushed stone loads from the Barrick Quarry, crosses the Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:44 on March 8, 2021.

Loc... (more)

Loaded coal train Y92 traverses the "New Lead" at the CONSOL Marine Terminal.

Amtrak Acela 2121 (New York NY to Washington DC, with power car 2026 leading) slows for its stop at the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Station during a heavy snowfall. Meanwhile, northbound... (more)

Stunning Streamliner: Even though I'd already gone up to Baltimore to see B&O 51 a little over a week ago, hearing that there was a chance to get some outdoor photos of the unit while it wa... (more)

Streamliner Sublime: It's difficult to over-hype the incredible work that the restoration team at the B&O Museum put into B&O 51. I have always wondered when I have seen old builder's photo... (more)

Snow is falling as a southbound Norfolk & Western train starts its trek over the Shenandoah Valley line, about to cross under Downsville Pike in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Roanoke-bound tonnage departs the interchange yard at Hagerstown, Maryland. Located at the northern end of Norfolk & Western’s Shenandoah Valley line, the yard was known as Vardo Yard, while I h... (more)