On Memorial Day, Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited #30 shoots up the Barnesville grade with a mile-long horn salute from a friend in the cab.

Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) celebrated the 150th anniversary of the opening of Baltimore & Ohio’s Metropolitan Branch in 1873 with an excursion trip on Memorial Day. The anniversary excur... (more)

CSX 787 leads a pair of light engines from Benning, DC to Brunswick, MD to pick up a set of scrap gondolas. R150 would later return east to DC with the empty scrap gons.

The conditions seen here unfortunately were not representative of most of the day. I was hoping for some substantial accumulation but this day was just mostly on and off flurries. Regardless, he... (more)

After dropping off loads and grabbing empties from the Dickerson Incinerator, dedicated Trash Job D765 sprints back east to the trash loading plant in Derwood. Gotta love the matched pair of SD40... (more)

Here comes 29, here comes 29, westbound down the line...

Eastbound "Capitol Limited" on the last lap to Washington; Heritage (1) unit 156 is the middle unit

Late afternoon with a lone engine dragging empty coal cars westward through Maryland farmland.

An SCL geep and MARC F lead a westbound on the Brunswick Line, during MARC's most colorful era.

A rare sighting as MPEX5000 the one of a kind SD50M-3 leads this autorack train up the grade towards Baltimore, MD. It served as a demonstrator on the DM&E for a number of weeks before being retur... (more)

Westbound MARC commuter train P871 arrives at Barnesville, Maryland on a cold and blustery afternoon.

Empty trash containers headed to the Derwood, MD trash plant. He's returning from the PEPCO power plant in Dickerson, MD. Canon EOS Digital Rebel 28-80mm USM lens

Loaded stone bound for Bladensburg from Millville, W.Va. He's doing about 12MPH up Barnesville Hill. Canon EOS Digital Rebel 28-80mm USM lens