538 on Q316 waits for her conductor to tie down the required number of cars so that the locomotives can cut from their train and pickup the cars on the spur, which 2629 has just left there.2629 ha... (more)

The signature of 17 Mile Grade..big diesel muscle, empty hoppers, steep grade, water and limestone. It's all in this one. The faded nose of 310 belies the power she still has.

Two AC 44's have 113 cars in tow, 78 of which are loads, headed out this morning on the "West End". Since most coal comes east, the 78 loads are no doubt for the Mt Storm power plant in West Virgi... (more)

653 stands at the lead end of a string of stored AC 6000 CW's six of them with two EMD's On the other side, more 6000's. They are being removed, very slowly, one at a time and placed back in serv... (more)

The Capital Limited picks up track speed as it passes Mexico Tower and a waiting coal empty as it heads east for Washington DC.

Amtrak Heritage Unit 145, lead engine on the Capital Limited this day, brightens the gloomy weather at it's stop at Cumberland. It's the second time she's been on the Cap since her repaint, and ha... (more)

Union Pacific 4139 brings manifest CSX B256 under the Rt 40 bridge at Cumberland, Maryland. Note the nice new plow on 4139, complete with the part number sticker on its upper left corner!

734 works Helmstetter's Curve with a clean stack, on a pretty fall day, headed for Frostburg.

The Capital Limited slips in for a stop at Cumberland, as CSX E726, with AC44CW 374 waits to go west with a string of empties. E726 will wait until the Cap loads and leaves before heading out on t... (more)

6430 is headed east out of the yard with a slug and one other GP 40-2. Westbound CSXT 480 and friend on Q261 has the green for it's 6900 ft autorack.

This train terminates at Cumberland, and will be backing into a freight track in a few moments. The power consists of two operating engines, and five that need work, either at the Huntington or Cu... (more)

The Cap zips thru the Cumberland Yard with the Heritage Unit up front.

A long fall color excursion is led by 501 and 502, with 734 on the rear and fourteen passenger cars between. New WMSR brakeman Dan Morris is riding 501 after flagging the Baltimore Street Crossing... (more)

734 working nicely on a grade here at Trimble Road, the old girl cants into a curve in good light. At the throttle is Cody Cook, just back from conductor school at CSX. Tomorrow he'll be on a CSX ... (more)

Here's young Cody Cook bringing WMSR 734 around Helmstetter's Curve on his last regular run with 734. That's John Helmstetter's new barn in the background. Cody is now in training as a CSX conduc... (more)