A Western Maryland SD40 is going solo up the Potomac Valley in the spring of 1981. No. 7570 was built as the WM 7470 in 1966.

"STEEL ROAD TO THE STARS"
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A GP38-2 passes under the signal bridge at Miller Tower.

The Operator at Miller Tower gives the "highball" to a passing eastbounder.

The second trick operator at Miller Tower, located at the junction of the Cumberland and Lurgan Subdivisions, hard at work late in the evening.

CSX 3091 leads a coal drag onto the low grade at Cherry Run, West Virginia.

CSX 834 leads Q401 past Cherry Run, West Virginia.

Friendly CSX Tower operator Allen Brougham throws the levers in Miller Tower in Cherry Run, WV shortly before it closed in 2000.

In 1995, high-tech propane switch heaters had yet to come to the CSX interlocking at Miller Tower in Cherry Run, WV. Old kerosene switch pots were still in use. They were dirty, smelly and requi... (more)

One of the responsibilities of a Tower Operator was to inspect passing trains. On a steamy July 23, 2000, CSX Operator Paul Swain, pad and pencil in hand, was inspecting an empty hopper train as ... (more)

It's after midnight under a setting half Moon as the Chambersburg to Chicago intermodal Q015 crosses the Potomac River and a heavy fog begins to lift off the water's surface. The glow in the dista... (more)

Miller Tower was in its final days when CSX Operator Paul Swain was "highballing" a westbound freight on the evening of July 22, 2000. I shall be forever grateful for the hospitality Paul and oth... (more)

Q400 rolls west on track one at the Cherry Run interlocking. Four tracks converge at this location. In the foreground from left to right is the Lurgan Sub from Hagerstown, the Cumberland Sub Low G... (more)

After arriving in Hagerstown, MD from the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch, a string of PPLX hoppers run west off the former Western Maryland now CSX Lurgan Sub at Cherry Run, WV under a near full m... (more)

By '93, this was a pretty rare lashup on CSX. Three 30Ms, an active tower, and two passenger cars make a great combination!