Camden Line MARC trains wait out the weekend at Riverside Yard on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

Westbound coal empties slide out of Baltimore at about 1400 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, on their way back to Grafton, West Virginia.

A westbound autorack train glides past the old Baldwin-designed station at Point of Rocks on a wintry Saturday afternoon.

A short southbound merchandise freight with plenty of power conquers the snowy rolling hills south of Hagerstown.

The Thomas Viaduct carrries a southbound merchandise train across the Patapsco River on a sunny Monday morning.

The conductor from waiting Q409 prepares to do a roll-by inspection of fast-moving intermodal Q173. I saw almost nothing but AC6000CWs on point this fine Saturday morning.

The daily southbound intermodal out of Baltimore's Bay View Yard passes the Route 100 Industrial Park lead at Dorsey on a sunny Saturday morning.

I caught the "Beast" or "Devil" on the point of Q173 almost exactly a month before, also running opposite main, just a few miles north of here on the Thomas Viaduct. Wherever it came from was col... (more)

With UP power on point, a fast-moving eastbound intermodal train (single stack with lots of empty well cars) makes its way toward Norfolk on a balmy January Saturday morning.

With the last morning MARC train clear, the CSX freight schedule resumes in earnest. A southbound autorack train rolls through Laurel on a late December Friday morning.

Mass quantities of GE power lead this long southbound merchandise freight through Suburban Maryland at about 0920 on a crisp late December Friday morning.

The daily southbound NJ to Jacksonville intermodal, with plenty of power, blasts through Laurel on a sunny December morning.

This daily southbound intermodal cruises over the Thomas Viaduct. The top of the white obelisk commemorating the 1835 completion of the bridge can be seen behind the train on the far side of the ... (more)

You'd have to have a good sense of humor, or at least not be too superstitious, to crew 666, which today is running opposite main as it crosses the Thomas Viaduct on its way south with Q173 in tow... (more)

A northbound intermodal train cruises through Savage on Christmas Eve morning. My kitchen pass had expired and the clouds were threatening, but all worked out in the end. Merry Christmas to all!