Heading Back Down! A freight prepares to leave the passing siding at Frostburg and head down the hill to Cumberland with a few carloads of freight. A Lerro Productions photo charter.

This TGV appears ready to launch down the track, but it will first ease its way through the city before getting up to 180 mph.

The B&O logo will always be a classic, however long it is gone from Class 1 railroading.

For all my images from the charter, go Railroad: Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
Locomotive: EMD GP9
Location: Romney, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: BO 6604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 23, 2013

Triple Action! One Metra train, recently departed from Union Station, passes under two Metra movements in the north throat of the Ogilvie Transportation Center (ex-C&NW). A brief walk fol... (more)

Track to the left is what remains of the Georgetown Branch, now only a few feet long. Large blue building with orange stripes in the background is Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, research... (more)

A woman watches the passing manifest from the platform of the former B&O freight house.

Behind the Scenes In preparation for a photo charter, the WMSR crew starts the day preparing the passenger train (to follow the steam photo freight) on the yard lead at Ridgeley.

It is sunset, not only on the train, but on several background elements of this scene. The CPL signal bridge is soon to be replaced by the new silver bridge whose legs already rise behind it, and... (more)

Waiting for the highball as the conductor makes the lonely and uncomfortable trudge back through the tunnel to look for trouble in the train.

For other shots from the WMSR Foundation/Lerro Pro... (more)

A TGV pulls out of the subterranean but sky-lit station.

Lots of autoracks moving on this snowy day.

At the mid-day break (see below) I was able, for less than $2, to briefly take the controls, for maybe 2 minutes, of a Romanian-build Lxd2 class diesel engine on this meter gauge railroad, now run... (more)

Actors and, I think, crew present themselves to close out a great day at the WMSR 25th anniversary, including guest engines Viscose Company #6 and Flagg Coal #75.

Too bad the GM of the WMS... (more)

Now that WB Tower has been retired and new signaling put into the area, there is a huge signal box on an elevated platform (occasional major floods) just to its west, ruining the shot of a train p... (more)