An ash train pulls up to the signal at Point of Rocks and stops to let a coal train head east on the Old Main Line before continuing on to Brunswick.
Good to see an SD40-2 leading the way.
Westbound MARC No. 265 was stopped at Point of Rocks, MD on May 3, 1989 to unload commuters with GP39H-2 No. 71.
Point of Rocks, MD 3/9/2012 - Seen from high atop the nearby Catoctin ridgeline, CSX E-727 brings a string of 130 empty hoppers by the historic B&O depot at Point of Rocks. The train is on the Met... (more)
A set of helpers on the rear of a B&O eastbound manifest were passing the station at Point of Rocks, MD on April 12, 1985.
Heavy duty power as the Frederick Local D786 sports two SD80Macs for power. Pictured switching the Can Am Steel plant near Point of Rocks.
A helper set stops short of the signal to come off the OML WB onto the Metropolitan sub, waiting for other movements to pass.
B667 helper awaiting B608 coal train, at left. Cab door on the 3102 open in deference to high-90s temperature.
WB TRAIN TO PITTSBURGH
Autoracks head down the Metropolitan Sub past the Point of Rocks Station. The two tracks in the foreground are the Old Main Line.
An afternoon MARC train makes a station stop at Point of Rocks. Until new MARC engines were ordered in 1993, almost anything could turn up on MARC trains. Borrowed CSX Geeps, former BN E units, ... (more)
Commuters from DC arriving at the recently repaired Point of Rocks station.
The engineer onboard the cab car strains to see the tracks again as another eastbound commuter train approcahes Point Of Rocks.
