DC bound commuter train.
As the last MARC train of the day heads west, disembarked passengers head for their cars across the tracks, by street, pedestrian crossing, or even across the rails. [The distant cars are the end... (more)
An eastbound coal drag powered by two of CSX's many AC44 locomotives, passes through Marc Rail's Metropolitan Grove commuter station.
Not as common as a BNSF or NS version, a CSX Dash 9 leads an empty autorack train past the historic EF Baldwin Station and freight house at Gaithersburg, Maryland
A Marcbonnet leads the early afternoon run to Brunswick, Maryland.
Rusting away in Margaritaville! Buffalo Creek and Gauleyy #14 (built 1918), sits in the railroad park at Gaithersburg, Maryland, 40 miles from her home state of West Virginia.
CSX "pumpkin" GP40 at Railroad Ave crossing with tie train.
A pan shot need not be of a train, an engine, or part of an engine!
D765, the Trash Train, returns to Gaithersburg, from Dickerson with a string of empty containers. Trash is hauled by rail to Dickerson, Maryland, where the trash is incinerated. Electricity produc... (more)
"Eastbound Train," "Gaithersburg," what else do you need to know?
Q411-08 passes under a pedestrian bridge decorated with symbols of the B&O and the City of Gaithersburg.
The rock runner passes by the Gaithersburg station, build in 1884 and still used by MARC passengers and Saturday coffee drinkers.
Q226 passes just far enough past the signals to enter the next block and thus trip the circuit and turn them on.
Autoracks pass by a firehouse in Gaithersburg; I believe the twin red cones on top are public alert sirens.
On a beautiful day, a freight passes the MARC platforms next to the former B&O freight house; the still-in-use passenger station is behind the photographer's left shoulder.