Working on the lower part of Helmstetter's Curve, nice dry rail and a seven car train, no helper. She sounds great and looks great, steam from the stoker exhaust under her tender.

Resting at the Cumberland Station after the run to Frostburg. Due to long train, and limited siding length at Frostburg, 734 has come back down on the rear of the train.

Up close..734 wakes up Frostburg when she arrives at the station, which is just a few feet out of sight here.

On a beautiful fall day, 459 and friends bring the Q out over the old west end Viaduct, headed for Keyser and Grafton, and points west. In the background, I can hear WMSR 734's hancock as it handl... (more)

A great way to spend a Sunday afternoon..with a bag of snacks and watching two pretty WMSR Geeps as they return to Cumberland with a long train.

72 leads the Capitol Limited down the Sand Patch east slope, eastbound and here on wrong main, running around a slower manifest. She's already 15 minutes late!

ALL ALONE! Big old 570 has over eighty cars in hand on the downward east Sand Patch slope as she heads east toward Cumberland. Fall color is looking good this day.

517 and friend front a long line of empty hoppers, waiting for crew on an east freight track. Left of them is a 55 car loaded ballast train with two AC44's on each end, the power needed for 17 mil... (more)

These two long lines of stored locomotives in the CSX Cumberland yard catch a bit of sunlight as it burns through the morning mist.

734 hammers uphill passing a pretty stand of Goldenrod. Notice the fairly clear stack..good coal, good fireman!

The conductor of 312, in the foreground, has come out of it's cab to give Q130 look over as it heads east with a string of containers. After the Q passes, he will give it an "all looks good", and ... (more)

We were driving by the Eagle Terminal, and saw 722 basking in the late afternoon sun..just had to stop and take this photo.

A failure to communicate! 841, three more AC 44's and eighty empty hoppers are shocked to find the county digging under the ballast to place a water line! The CSX engineer called the track foreman... (more)

Ballet de loaders! I waited and watched for almost 45 minutes to catch the three loaders with their buckets in this position. It's amazing how they load a train without even coming close to each o... (more)

The shop's Rail King pulls 70 Mac 4721 out of the house and on to the table, and as soon as the engine is clear of the shop, an employee starts it up, as you can see by the puff of smoke from it's... (more)