Nice to see a well-kept piece of equipment, even in a static display. B&O 1951 also served as MARC 3 (and perhaps others) and resided at the B&O Museum in Baltimore before coming to Gaithersburg... (more)
A pair of TGVs, one Thalys, one SNCF, having arrived earlier and stopped precisely at the markers, are poised to depart to the west.
Emerging from the (coal) mist! This rarely visible unit until recently served as a plant switcher for the Mirant Energy coal-fired power plant in Alexandria, VA. Usually hidden behind rows... (more)
HO tower, still on duty, looks over the quiet railyard during a snowstorm. What the tower, and the tree!, have seen over the years. Sadly, only the tree remains.
Now featured with my article... (more)
Freight heads to Pittsburgh! Or as close to Pittsburgh as the Western Maryland can get before handing off to another line. This peaceful rural scene belies the magnitude of the grade ahead... (more)
As shadows loom on the (no longer occupied) tower itself and on its remaining days (see the destruction debris already present), it gets to observe one more switch move, as the power for D721 retu... (more)
At the end of day, one more freight charges up the hill past a stand of corn. A Carl Franz charter.
Who decides to clean only the door of a locomotive?
The shot shows some basic information about this caboose and the class to which it belongs, I-17A. It now dwells just feet away from the CSX Capital Sub as a display unit, and formerly had been o... (more)
Pushing hard up the steep grade into Frostburg. A Carl Franz charter.
Commuters streak home past boats left in the water for the winter at the usually packed marinas at Neabsco, this day sprinkled with a bit of snow.
It seems that the seasons and the years go by but the caboose and the tree are always at the yard in Hancock.
For a view of a different caboose at Hancock, go Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)Locomotive: CabooseLocation: Hancock, West Virginia, USALocomotive #: CSXT 903869Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: January 04, 2014
Last train of the year! Amtrak blasts by an already quiet yard, and the line goes quiet for the rest of the day. The tree on the right, a long time resident, contemplates another year pas... (more)
A scattering of pumpkins watches the early riser on a cool, crisp morning. A Peter Lerro photo charter.
Pusher Service! A 2-8-0 pushes a mixed freight westbound up the 1.5% grade.
Interestingly, the Curve was built on a series of wooden bridges, which were then "back-filled with dirt," ta... (more)
