The "Ambrose" CPL signals in the late spring of 2011. Today, the signal is gone and nothing remains to indicate they were once here.

A westbound hopper train lights up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Color Position Light Signal Bridge just west of Hancock on the CSX Cumberland Sub. This along with the Bracket Mast signals in th... (more)

30 minutes after sunset this eastbound train seems to be running from the light as it and the tree line behind it are silhouetted against the dusk sky.

At the eastern end of Hancock yard stands the former B&O passenger station. Q416 rolls by under the dusk sky as a light drizzle falls ready to knock down the clear signal.

B&O manifest No. 345 was accelerating west at Hancock, WV on Sept. 16, 1987 after making a set off and pick up in the yard opposite the tower.

Another early CSX oddity, a GP 16 wearing CSX paint. By the early 90's, the GP 16s were no longer active on CSX, there probably weren't many others that received a CSX paint job.

It's raining as D721 gets it's signal from the BB Dispatcher off the Hancock Yard siding onto track one at Grasshopper. It slowly creeps along and flips the signal as it reaches the main. In the d... (more)

Work progresses at "Grasshopper" as the eastbound B&O CPL changes aspects for an eastbound autorack train on track two. In the distance the new siding signals are ready to be cut in and on the oth... (more)

We all miss the CPL bridge of course, but I do like the way the new poles have a certain sheen/glow, especially when they are picking up some reflected lumens off the snow all around. Note that th... (more)

Guys? Guys? Come back, guys! Don't just leave me here! This old B&O caboose, class C-27 (thanks, Scooter), appears operational but perhaps faces its last days, sitting at the end of a remot... (more)

Recycle that building! The station at Hancock is now used as an MoW base. The foreground track is the beginning of the Berkeley Springs industrial track.

For all the images from my mornin... (more)

The yard has changed (no tower, no CPLs, a few changes to the track arrangement) but the process remains much the same; the Capitol Limited heads east. In the background is a rail train; the caboo... (more)

The control board inside HO tower, a few years before its demise. Oh how I wish I had been able to see a train from up there!

For another control board view, from a preserved PRR tower, see... (more)

Bound for Brunswick, an eastbound loaded autorack train out of Cumberland passes under a vintage B&O CPL signal bridge at Grasshopper, west of Hancock. The B&O CPL's were recently removed on the M... (more)