Z631 shoves down the Stella lead in Goshen.

BB Mountain Jet shoves into Clifton Forge yard with Western Maryland 7471.

BB Mountain Jet waits in the clear at Fishersville yard with Western Maryland 7471 while a hopper jet passes on the main.

Buckingham Branch Mountain Local cruises past cold storage siding in Staunton, headed to switch out the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard.

If it weren’t for ditch lights, one may think this is a hot Alpha Jet thundering out of Big Savage Tunnel in 1970 enroute to Lurgan, PA on it’s journey along the Western Maryland’s share of ... (more)

A symphony of howling EMD 645’s rings out through rural Buffalo Gap, VA, announcing the mountain local’s arrival as WM 7471 leads the train’s assault on North Mountain Grade.

Buckingham Branch Z631 rolls past the Staunton depot with Western Maryland 7471 on lease.

Buckingham Branch Z631 with the Western Maryland 7471 leading clears up in the hole at Brand siding to let Z621 by.

Using the stretch braking method, engineer Ian Whaley and conductor Eric Strohecker ease the Mountain Local down the west slope of North Mountain at a brisk 40mph.

PNLX 7471, restored to its as delivered Western Maryland appearance leads the Buckingham Branch Mountain Local towards Clifton Forge. The motor is on lease to the severely power short Buckingham B... (more)

BB 16 leads the dinner train eastbound through Little Rock Tunnel. This small 80 foot bore on the east slope of Afton mountain is one of the highlights of the scenery that the North Mountain Subdi... (more)

Amtrak 50 and 51 are head to head in the hole at Brand to let a westbound CSX trackage rights train by. This is all three railroads that operate the former C&O North Mountain Subdivision in one ph... (more)

Amtrak 51 waits for a signal out of the hole at Brand with Buckingham Branch motors piloting, meanwhile Amtrak 50 passes on the main.

Downtown Drive: BB 13 leads a string of empty coal cars westbound through downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, as they head to the University of Virginia, to drop off the coal cars.

College Coal: BB12 leads Buckingham Branch local Z631 westbound over the Main Street Bridge in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the train drops off some coal cars for the University of Virginia coal... (more)