Oh, for the great expanses out ... east! The tree tunnels in this area usually preclude seeing much of a train from the side, but thanks to man's intervention in the form of three, count'e... (more)
With the last morning MARC train clear, the CSX freight schedule resumes in earnest. A southbound autorack train rolls through Laurel on a late December Friday morning.
Mass quantities of GE power lead this long southbound merchandise freight through Suburban Maryland at about 0920 on a crisp late December Friday morning.
The daily southbound NJ to Jacksonville intermodal, with plenty of power, blasts through Laurel on a sunny December morning.
You can almost set your watch by southbound TOFC Q171, shown here passing a northbound merchandise train near the Laurel MARC station at about 1130 on a late October morning.
Not much of a train for railfans, this very short local scoots northbound with just a single boxcar bookended by a pair of geeps.
Repositioning commuter power northward on a MARC down day. The homeless man trying to stay warm on a breezy cold morning reminds me how lucky I am to be able to afford the luxury of railfanning.
Fast-moving southbound TOFC blows through Laurel wrong main at 1130 on a crisp November morning. Woke up the homeless man by the green newspaper machine.
Southbound manifest passes a northbound manifest as the sun begins to set.
Former LMX lease unit, teamed with an old bloody nose SP SD40-2, haul this manifest train northward as Laurel residents sit down to Sunday dinner.