This is a Wheeling and Lake Erie train heading east with loads. The nifty "Rio Grand" paint scheme looks good here.

377 has become the lead engine of this eighty car coal train. On the other end, the two engines that brought the train up to the loader are now the rear engines, and shove the train through the lo... (more)

Two CSX "Logomotives" 983 and 984 shove hard on U 823 on the west slope of Sand Patch, 130 loads, two GE's up front.

This old timer is taking a break from tie-train service on Sunday morning, tied down on the east freight track until Monday morning.

This is the rear helper on a high-tonnage train of coal, shoving up the old WM Thomas Sub, underneath CSX's 17 mile grade. Helper set 218/291 with 524/505 up front are all in notch eight sounding... (more)

Here at Sunnyside straight, 734 shows her ability to make pretty smoke plumes..

The locomotive consist of Q 316 13 moves to it's train after dropping off cars for local industries. When coupled up the'll head west.

An eastbound coal haul waits on the eastbound main while the late Capital Limited hurries east on the westbound track to it's Cumberland stop.

115 and friend are on the eastbound main thru the yards, and pouring on the power as they get a clear signal. The pigeon gallery overhead seems to be watching. Note the bird on the pole..must be t... (more)

On a quiet Sunday morning, power for a work train waits for Monday morning duty. Slug 2335 was a former SCL GP40, 6445 is a GP 40-2, and the third loco is CSXT 1538, a GP15-1.

This old fella is parked this evening in the West Yard, after a day of dropping ties on 17 Mile grade. She'll be hard at work in the morning, on the grade again.

7754 leads Q 352 into the West Cumberland Yards here at track speed on the westbound main. Down off Sand Patch, the locomotive trucks packed with snow, this train tells us that the line west is no... (more)

734 passes under an old Western Maryland signal bridge, symbol G H, as she works nicely up hill near the Frostburg Depot

These big CSXT GE's look quite large..and they are..out on the famous old B&O Viaduct out of Cumberland to the fabled "West End". Nothing unusual here, going back to West Virginia with a string of... (more)

8249 tugs at a cut of autoracks, as she builds a train at the Cumberland Yard. You can see another cut of autoracks in the right of the photo.