“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)

SP and B&O private cars bring up the rear of a detouring Amtrak 11 as they enter Tunnel 2 on Tehachapi Pass.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

After receiving some cosmetic repairs, the Salamanaca Rail Museum's former 1912 Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway depot is looking better than ever. After being taken over by the Baltimore... (more)

I cannot locate any history on this caboose or as to why/how it got on static display just a mere 40 yards away from Southern's Manassas to Harrisonburg main line near the town of Edinburg, VA. Ev... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, the Floridian was generally short enough to be handled by a single E, like this B&O hand-me-down getting its windshield cleaned. The train would grow for a couple years, t... (more)

Shortly after departing Brunswick yard, a Cumberland-bound Baltimore & Ohio freight passes through Weverton, Maryland. The track in the foreground is the beginning of the Washington County Branch,... (more)

The head-end brakeman on the local switch job is dressed in the traditional classic railroader's garb of 1972. The mandatory wearing of bright colored safety vests is still decades away.

Conrail and B&O had a run-through freight between Enola and a point that I don’t recall on the B&O. Here it has just left Enola and is making its first of two crossings of the Susquehanna River.... (more)

Just minutes before sundown on a May day, the James Strates carnival train crosses the Thomas Viaduct at Relay, Maryland.

A single-unit Baltimore & Ohio train rolls west under the signal bridge at Lansdowne, Maryland.

The Baltimore & Ohio has put an EMD switcher on the main line as SW900 9407 brings a local under the signal bridge at Lansdowne, Maryland.

A Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 and a Chesapeake & Ohio B30-7 bring a train of empties through Danville, West Virginia. The S4 on the left belongs to the Southern Appalachian Coal Company (Julian Mines)... (more)

There are few freight cars that are more distinctive than the B&O’s “wagontop” box cars. Conceived out of the necessity to replace older double-sheathed boxcars with steel ones, the class M1... (more)

A pair of Chessie System Geeps, with B&O 4336 on the point, leads coal mtys out of Curtis Bay west on the Old Main Line at St. Denis, on April 19, 1986.