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 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)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

All four of the Western Maryland's Alco cabs team up to push an eastbound coal train up the hill between Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD. This pusher job was a regular assignment for the WM's FA2s... (more)

A westbound Western Maryland local storms up the grade at Charmian, Pennsylvania, en route to Hagerstown. The train is on the “Dutch line”, and the two GP9’s will continue to work hard until... (more)

WM FA1s 301, 302, 303, and 304 plus SD40 7434 passing F7A 59. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

Twilight on the "Alphabet Route" in the Lebanon Valley, in a scene scanned from a slide from the collection of the late Hen Westenberger. A Western Maryland SD40 leads a Reading GP35/GP... (more)

A westbound WM freight passes MY Tower at Maryland Junction in Ridgeley, WV on Aug. 18, 1974 with F7A No. 235 and a RS-3.

Remarks: F7s 237 and 239 on ready tracks at Hagerstown, Maryland, on June 6, 1965.

There is one thing for certain. For its size, WM had some very diverse scenery, from the urban docks of Baltimore to the wooded hollows of West Virginia, and everything in between. On a hazy Nov... (more)

A High Iron fall colors special with the NKP 759 in trailing position traverses Helmstetter's.

A WM excursion to Gettsburg, May 1955, gets ready to depart. Scheduled passenger service to Gettysburg ended 12/31/42. This view is one of a group of restored Ansco-Color slides in a collection ... (more)

Western Maryland was still very active between Bayard and Elkins into the late 70's. This coal train arrived at the same time I did and set up this great mood shot beside an abandonded store.