N&W class "J" 611 heads to Strasburg, PA for excursions this summer on May 25, 2021 through Hagerstown, MD.

D798 switches east of Hagerstown with a Road Slug leading the way.

Snow is falling as a southbound Norfolk & Western train starts its trek over the Shenandoah Valley line, about to cross under Downsville Pike in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Roanoke-bound tonnage departs the interchange yard at Hagerstown, Maryland. Located at the northern end of Norfolk & Western’s Shenandoah Valley line, the yard was known as Vardo Yard, while I h... (more)

Baldwin WM 132 sits at the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum in Hagerstown, Maryland.

If fresh paint of the victor this old unit is bringing to an end a fine railroad and is an integral part of the era of the “rust belt”.

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 bui... (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. Reti... (more)