Tom Golden photo.

B&O's Budd Rail Diesel Car on display at Gaithersburg Station.

For a couple years into the Conrail era, the Chessie System continued to use its ancestral Baltimore & Ohio trackage rights over the former Reading and Jersey Central to run freights from Philadel... (more)

The Chessie Safety Express has been wyed and serviced and will soon be ready to depart on the return trip to East St. Louis.

Eastbound Grain Train on the B&O Akron Mainline Subdivision, photo date approximate

Baltimore & Ohio 9256 was a boxy Baldwin DS-44-1000, one of 49 switchers of that model on the B&O roster. In the summer of 1970 it was working yard duty at Benwood Junction outside Wheeling, WV.

Baltimore & Ohio F7 7052 was a former Chesapeake & Ohio unit that could have used a fresh coat of paint as it posed on the head of an A-B-A lashup at the Benwood Junction yard outside Wheeling, WV... (more)

A lengthy Baltimore & Ohio transfer job behind a GP9/GP30 duo crosses the massive Chicago River drawbridge at Ash Street in Chicago.

Former B & O station with a siding and several spurs that appear to service a lumber yard in the back. West Main St., Rochester NY, featured on the Food Network for the Nick Tahou Hots' world fam... (more)

Bound for Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia, four Chessie geeps lead eastbound Chesapeake & Ohio tonnage cross the Accotink Creek in Springfield, Virginia. The train is viewed on joint C&O/Sout... (more)

“Victorian Gothic Icon”
Although completed in 1875, what you see here in 1984 (and even today) is essentially the result of the 1931 restoration of the E. Francis Baldwin-designed st... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio GP30 No. 6900 and Chesapeake & Ohio GP35 No. 3526 sit at B&OCT’s Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

“Smoke ‘Em if Ya Got ‘Em”
An all-EMD consist leads Philadelphia to Potomac Yard manifest R405 (formerly B&O 85) westbound on the Thomas Viaduct on 09/20/1987. Note the two (what ... (more)

An excursion train billed as “The West Virginian” crosses the bridge between Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and Sandy Hook, Maryland on its return from Martinsburg to Baltimore.

“Sans Dome”
Skirting past the rock face at Relay is B&O bay window caboose 903729, bringing up the rear of an Old Main Line coal drag destined for the Curtis Bay piers. Still in (now... (more)