CSX Office Car Special crosses the Potomac River from Maryland into West Virginia while enroute to Cumberland.

D787 heads east to crossover and come back west in order to run around their train. An interesting unit in this RDSLUG/RDMATE duo is 2246 which started life as B&O GP30 #6913. CSX's road slug prog... (more)

Regular afternoon autoracks Q217 and Q249 are no strangers to having interesting power. Case and point with today's 217 with an ex-Conrail C40-8W and trailing SD40-2.

A fairly rare event having a pair of NS locomotives emerge from Harpers Ferry tunnel and cross the Potomac on the CSX Cumberland Sub.

A veteran power set brings a load of empties west past the historic town of Harpers Ferry.

Morning sun pokes through the morning fog and through the trees, and off of a quick Q400 as it races West at Harpers Ferry.

The Sun sets and the high clouds of an impending winter storm catch fire in a blaze of orange behind Bolivar Heights. K796 joined alongside the Shenandoah River almost 3 miles back and is about to... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 12/26/12 - Sheets of freezing rain cascade off the roof of the Harper's Ferry passenger station as the last commuter train of the day approaches for its station stop just before... (more)

Catching the last rays of sun before it ducks behind the hills surrounding Harpers Ferry. The Capitol Limited blasts out of the tunnel and slows for its regular station stop. Notice the high water... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited departs historic Harpers Ferry, WV, on a cool fall morning, as seen from the Loudon Heights overlook.

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/6/2012 - As the last gasps of sunlight recede below the horizon, the CSX Subdivision mainline is brilliantly lit by the arriving westbound MARC commuter train P-875 making it... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/9/2012 - Not long before sunrise, the eastbound Q-751 "Rock Runner" peaks between the last of the brilliant fall colors along the Shenandoah Subdivision's wooden trestle thro... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/9/2012 - Westbound manifest Q-400 exits Harper's Ferry tunnel on the Cumberland Subdivision as it crosses the Potomac River below the craggy cliffs of Maryland Heights at the... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/6/2012 - A hard frost clings to the CSX mainline bridge over the Potomac River as two coal trains meet just before sunrise. Westbound empty hopper train E-721 is exiting the ... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/6/2012 - The sun has yet to break over the hills as Canadian geese eat their breakfast, oblivious to the the Q-751 "Rock Runner" trundling onto the wooden tressel at Harper's... (more)