Having been with the B&O for over 30 years of service, this high hood Geep leads a Chessie-painted GP30 as they head southeast toward Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

One of my first shots using a DSLR camera. A westbound empty hopper train (E819) approaches the now gone B&O CPL Bridge at Grasshopper just west of Hancock in April, 2011. I remember standing on t... (more)

“Short of a Full Deck”
This unusually short CSX trailer train, with Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4438 as the sole power, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) ... (more)

“The Heartbreak of Corrosion”
Rust has taken its toll on the best part of the B&O paint scheme—the Capitol Dome emblem—on this GP40, acting as lead unit on a westbound manifest a... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

They were basically an Aircraft Tug/Pusher adapted for railcars. A Roger Puta Photograph

Proceeding through the Interlocking Plant. A Roger Puta Photograph

A pair of Chessie System GP35s bring a brand new Missouri Pacific GP15-1 with the transfer run between B&O's Barr Yard in Riverdale and the MoPac's/L&N's Yard Center in Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

OBSS (Orange Blossom Special-South), with CSX/B&O GP40 6638 plus four, is westbound at White Marsh on B&O's Philadelphia Sub at 09:05 on January 6, 1987. CSX/B&O 6638 is the former B&O 4063.
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“Truncated Orange Blossom”
With only two engines (Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4296 and Seaboard System/SBD U30C 7238), and fewer than 20 trailers, an unusually short Orange Blossom Spe... (more)

Heading east on the B&O's Garrett Subdivision, and crossing over the Michigan Central Porter Branch double track main.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum's prized 4-4-0 No. 25, an 1856 Mason Machine Works survivor is seen here at the Museum's back shop undergoing its mandatory 1472 service inspection and overh... (more)

A westbound B&O manifest with a blue B&O GP40 and two Chessie geeps rolls through the cut at Whitemarsh, Maryland.