On September 25, 1983, an excursion from Baltimore to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg via the B&O Old Main Line was scheduled to take place. I believe that the trip was sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter NRHS, but I’m not absolutely certain. The “railfan grapevine” – there was no internet - said that the Clinchfield F’s would pull the train. Admittedly disappointed that the B-units did not make the journey to Baltimore, I was nonetheless impressed by a pair of sparkling Seaboard System cab units upon my arrival at Camden Station. This was an interesting time, as most of the train was former Chessie Safety Express cars, although that program was terminated two years prior. The presence of Seaboard System locomotives on the B&O was also quite possibly a first, as the operational integration of CSX was still four years away. Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which would eventually be visible from this vantage point, was still nine baseball seasons away.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
Not
just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
