“Susky Crossing”
Amtrak 155(7), a NYP-WAS Northeast Regional, led by ACS-64 AMTK 638, sprints [pun intended] across the “Susquehanna River Movable Bridge” into Havre de Grace, MD... (more)

“Scare Stripes”
A week after the resumption of passenger service to/from Jim Thorpe, freshly repainted RBMN 2013 leads a Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway “bike train” (Jim Thorpe to W... (more)

“Diamonds Aren’t Forever”
Destined for Duke Energy’s Roxboro Steam Plant, NS 776 (Shire Oaks, PA-Hyco, NC), consisting of coal loads in RGNX hoppers, takes the siding at Shenando... (more)

At 08:56, Maryland Midland’s stone train (UBST), as light engines, bridges Little Pipe Creek, southbound at mp 16.4 on the MDOT Sub (the former PRR/PC Frederick Secondary). Called at Union Bridg... (more)

Coal empties (CSX E784, Baltimore/Curtis Bay to Newell, PA), with CSXT 3428 in charge, head west through Shenandoah Jct.

Locomotives:
(1) CSXT ET44AH 3428
(2) CSXT ES44AH 925<... (more)

"Emmitsburg Jct."
With 43 loads/3 empties, and a full complement of power, Maryland Midland’s UBHF storms west past the long derelict Rocky Ridge Elevator Company at mp 54.1.

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“A Flare (Flair) for Hauling Stone”
As light engines, Maryland Midland’s stone train (UBST) is crossing LeGore Bridge Road, about to enter the Barrick Quarry property to fetch sto... (more)

The daily East Binghamton to Roanoke manifest, NS 11Z, glides past the former N&W station (built 1906) in Luray.

Locomotives:
(1) NS ES44AC 8090
(2) NS ET44AC 3660
(3) NS E... (more)

“In the Hole”
CSX Q403-27, the Selkirk to Baltimore manifest, with CSXT C40-8W 7827 in the lead, is held on the siding at West Aikin, while the priority intermodal/OJT Q140-27, led b... (more)

“Bridge to Yesteryear”
The eastbound Pennsylvanian, Amtrak 42(27), dives under the cast-in-place concrete arch bridge that has carried Port Royal’s Market Street over the Pe... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s Lackawanna heritage unit leads the Rutherford-Atlanta intermodal, NS 203, south (timetable west) past a couple of covered hoppers staged on the Martin’s Elevator siding at M... (more)

“The Bridge on the Creek Little Pipe”
MMID’s UBST, with crushed stone loads from the Barrick Quarry, crosses the Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:44 on March 8, 2021.

Loc... (more)

“Beard’s Crossing”
Already 15 minutes late for its 11:01 appointment at Martinsburg, and with 10 miles yet to go, Amtrak 30(1), the eastbound Capitol Limited (CSX P030), on ... (more)

Configured 1+1+0, CSX priority intermodal I016 (Bedford Park, IL-Chambersburg, PA) is eastbound on No. 1 Main at Sleepy Creek (BA 117.5), already lined to transition onto the Lurgan Sub at Cherry ... (more)

“Gettin' Stoned”
With 26 stone loads destined for Barrick’s Finksburg Terminal, Maryland Midland’s UBST rolls northbound through New Midway, past the landmark Kramer’s Piano Sh... (more)