Looking in bad shape and wearing a Chessie number this unit probably has little time left.

Western Maryland SD40 7571 leads at Chinchester, PA on Baltimore & Ohio's westbound train 85. This was the third of three trains that the crowd "suffered" at Meetinghouse Road while wait... (more)

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 leads DGVR 6512 and 5940 on a shakedown run on DGVR train SVLOC-18.

Heritage Heritage Complements of CSX.

CSX 1852 Heritage unit is seen painted in Western Maryland Red , White and lack scheme. Photographed today on Western Maryland home rails near Highfield Maryland.

CSX's Western Maryland heritage unit leads rack train M276 north over the Louisville & Indiana before turning east at Seymour for Cincinnati.

The sun has set and storms are rolling in as CSXT 1852 leads M424 through the Chatham Village

Chessie, WM, Western Maryland 7547 SD40, Chessie/WM 7547 was originally WM 7447 in the circus scheme, Red/Black/White, at Connellsville, Pennsylvania. July 12, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Western Maryland Railway F7A 235 holds the mainline while a set of power (WM GP40 3799, F7A 66, RS-2 184 and an SD35) rolls by heading into the Hagerstown Yard. (Hagerstown, Maryland – Septembe... (more)

“Lonely Survivor”
The Western Maryland Railway freight station in York, shown here on April 21, 1984, was built in 1896 for WM precursor Baltimore & Harrisburg Railway Company. The J... (more)

I gotta say, for a unit to have gone so long without TLC it would be hard to ask for a better looking result after many years. I would almost take this compared to "whiskers" brand new.... (more)

In Enemy Territory

The Baltimore and Ohio had competing trackage with the Western Maryland through most of the WM service territory. Needless to say, there was a strong corporate r... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

I recently came across my father's old train log book, which he wrote at the age of 11 in 1948. He talked about going from Detroit to Collingswood, NJ to visit his great uncle, Robert F. Mckee, w... (more)