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.

“Rollercoaster”
NS 4074, plus three additional, brings the daily East Binghamton-Roanoke manifest, NS 11Z, south on the H-Line at milepost H12.5, where the grade makes a direct trans... (more)

“Spring into Action”
After yielding the main to ENRO-8, ROEN-8 (ROanoke-ENola) exits the controlled siding at CP-SPRING (or “SPRINGS”, if you accept the attractive signage on the... (more)

“I032 Over Wire”
Actually, the “wire” is long gone, but some of the catenary infrastructure lives on (such as this cat pole at milepost PD 1.4) along NS’s Port Road Branch. Thi... (more)

“Rock ‘n Roll”
At 09:36, Maryland Midland’s UBST departs the S.W. Barrick quarry with a healthy (26 car) train of aggregate destined for Barrick’s Finksburg Terminal at Cedarhu... (more)

CSX priority intermodal I016 (Bedford Park, IL-Chambersburg, PA), approaching Valley Street on No. 2 Main at 08:46, is an early arrival into the Cumberland Terminal on 02/18/2023, 27 minutes ahea... (more)

“Reflections of Spring”
At 09:43, a total of five Maryland Midland EMDs pull a 26-car train of aggregate–from S.W. Barrick’s Woodsboro quarry to Barrick’s Finksburg Term... (more)

“Riderless Horse”
Maybe you know it as “Mexico”, or “Tuscarora”, or “SIP 148.7”, or “Book’s Century Farm”, or “Book’s Crossing”, or simply “Book’s”. But... (more)

“Paint It Black”
With plenty of power at hand, easy work is made of pulling lengthy manifest 11Z (East Binghamton-Knoxville) west through the Franklin County farmlands of the Cumberl... (more)

“Homeward Bound”
CSX’s “Letterkenny Local” (Hagerstown-Culbertson turn), is headed home after interchanging with the Pennsylvania & Southern Railway at the Cumberland Valley Bu... (more)

Tuscarora Mountain provides the backdrop as AMTK 121 leads Amtrak 43(20), the Pennsylvanian, west along the south bank of the Juniata River, opposite Mexico, PA, at Book’s Crossing (PT 14... (more)

“Shining Upon Man”
Three SD70 variants wrestle NS’s Conway to Edgemoor manifest 36A up the 1.05% grade of the West Slope on Track 3, and through the slide fence-equipped cut at Cas... (more)

“Prodigal Son”
UBHF brings 55 empty cement hoppers destined for the Lehigh plant in Union Bridge east through Middleburg. Today’s power includes a new addition to the Maryland Midl... (more)

With Tuscarora Mountain in the background, NS 23M (Port Newark, NJ-Global 2, IL/UP) wends its way west along the south bank of the Juniata River at Book’s Crossing on the Pittsburgh Line (PT 148... (more)

With the Church Road crossing flagged, York Railway RJ-2, now with YRC 1606 on point, reverses onto Smith Siding to make its pickup, in preparation for its eastbound return to Lincoln Yard. Today�... (more)