A southbound manifest freight with a lot of power crosses the Anacostia River. RFK Stadium is in the background.

10,000 tons of coal, enough to generate 25 million kWh of electricity, thunders eastward across the Potomac River. I'm not sure why the trailing unit's nose door is open.

This northbound mixed freight crosses the Rappahannock River at about 1000 on a sunny Wednesday morning.

This northbound train, mostly covered hoppers and tank cars (not a single box car in the consist), crosses the Rappahannock River at about 0940 on a beautiful August morning.

Exercising trackage rights, this loaded CSX unit coal train just came across the Rockville Bridge and is about to enter Enola Yard. Off to the right, a Norfolk Southern merchandise train departs ... (more)

Eastbound bare table at about 0945. First I thought it was a maintenance truck (yellow and only his ditch lights on), then I thought it was a light power move. Turned out to be a mile long strin... (more)

A revenue loser, this very short train (two GE units and a bare flatcar) scoots west through Germantown at about 1830 on a sunny Saturday evening. Not sure why his ditch lights are on and his hea... (more)

A well-worn pair of work horses sits idle in the cold afternoon sunshine near Tarmac Aggregates as a northbound manifest freight, running opposite main, creeps past.

These three units just pulled a westbound manifest train into Cumberland and are now headed down past the West Hump.

An old Dash-8 conducts switch ops near Mexico Tower at the west entrance to the Cumberland Yard on a nice Autumn morning. The Canadian grain train on the rear left is on its way Eastbound.

Foreign power! Units from my two favorite railroads--UP and NS--team up to haul this eastbound CSX manifest freight through Harpers Ferry at 0800 on a sunny Monday morning.

This eastbound merchandise train makes an unscheduled 30-minute stop in Harpers Ferry so the crew can fix whatever is causing the trailing GE unit to smoke. The green westbound signal announces a... (more)

This eastbound mixed freight rolls into Harpers Ferry at about 0745 on a sunny Monday morning. The green westbound track signal indicates more action is on the way.

Eastbound merchandise train crosses the Potomac at 0840 this fine Fall morning. This was the third eastbounder in 30 minutes. Plenty of westbound traffic, but I had to wait four more hours for t... (more)

Eastbound mixed freight crosses the Potomac River at about 10:15 AM on this Saturday morning.