NS 203 goes through Vardo yard in Hagerstown,MD during a cold day on February 15,2020 with a rare sighting of the Savanna & Atlanta leading the way!!

Four CSX locomotives sit in Hagerstown.

One of fifty-nine BL2s produced, the 7172 and its slug are hard at work on a steamy June afternoon in 1981. The unit was built for the Western Maryland Railway in October, 1948, as their No. 82.

The Circus Comes to Hagerstown

A set of Western Maryland power stands near the yard office in Hagerstown, Maryland. The F7A in the black speed lettering paint is outnumbered by uni... (more)

Just another day back in the day. My slide says Hagerstown but somehow it makes me thing Connellsville.

NW 518639 (class C-31P) cupola caboose was photographed at Vardo Yard (Hagerstown, MD) on 06/27/1987. Despite a build date of “12-69” stenciled on the data plate, other records show it was built 0... (more)

A Reading GP30/GP30/GP35 lashup leads a freight through the Western Maryland yard at Hagerstown, MD. The RDG and WM pooled power and crews between Hagerstown and Rutherford Yard outside Harrisburg... (more)

On a winter afternoon, a loaded Western Maryland coal train behind an SD40 and an F7B has stopped outside the yard at Hagerstown, MD, awaiting a clear track.

At 23½ years young, NW 205, a high short hood GP35, awaits its next assignment at Vardo Yard, Hagerstown, MD, on 06/27/1987.

Built 11/1963 (S# 28620), and delivered to N&W in 12/1963. Retir... (more)

Classic Profile

EMD’s F-units were the first-generation workhorses of mainline railroading. Few paint schemes express the everyday get-the-job-done nature of the bulldog-nosed unit... (more)

Rough track on the branch line to Maryland Metals in Hagerstown.

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

“Reading 96 Redux”
Conrail’s Hagerstown Secondary crosses in the foreground, as the modern iteration of “Reading 96”, CSX R342 (Cumberland to Enola), approaches NC Tower in Hagerstown. T... (more)

CSX Q015 with a Kansas City Southern "Belle" enters the northern outskirts of Hagerstown, MD on the former Western Maryland Lurgan Line from the Chambersburg Terminal. The train is just ... (more)