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.

CSX 2629, the local switcher, rolls past standing work train power as the crew heads for the yard shack to find out what the trainmaster wants them to do. The work train power is slug 2335, mother... (more)

This string of empty hoppers in the east Keyser Yard has come from the Mt Storm power plan empty. The power you see on this end will probably be moved to the front of the cars and take them west t... (more)

The grade here is 1.59%, and two big GE's are easing a heavy manifest eastbound down grade. The battle to hold back weight is almost as awesome as the climb uphill! Note the pretty spring color, a... (more)

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.

West bound Q 259 eases down hill as on track two an eastbound autorack, Q 276, with a long load of new cars and trucks gets ready to slip down the east slope, here at the summit of Sand Patch. Not... (more)

Dirty nosed 7816, looking like she needs the paint treatment at Huntington, is leading the second of two autoracks within 30 minutes thru Hyndman at the main street road crossing, both long, and ... (more)

U 823 blasts thru east Keyser at 45 per with 80 loads of West Virginia coal

Union Pacific 4139 brings manifest CSX B256 under the Rt 40 bridge at Cumberland, Maryland. Note the nice new plow on 4139, complete with the part number sticker on its upper left corner!

This big GE fronts E726 at track speed through Dawson with 112 empties for the mountain.

2629 tiptoes down track RC2 between parked road power as she goes east for some switching moves.

This loaded coal train rests on a freight track as it awaits crew for a trip up to the big Mt Storm power plant. The cars seem to trail off to infinity.

Following Amtrak out of Cumberland, this container train is heading east at full track speed! Looks like it's running on a lot of new ties, too!

2629 is stopped on the eastbound "hi iron" here, waiting for the interlocking signaling so she can deposit her cars on the eastbound storage track in the foreground, which features a new switch po... (more)

Four GE's, with 767 in front, are parked and waiting for work. The main lines, with east bound on the left are the two that have welded rail. That's the interlocking between the two signal towers.