It's crew change time, and the fellas are in lock step as they cross the eastbound main to their waiting power. Looks like they are gonna be gone for a while, lotsa baggage!

4500 was once the 700, and the first of CSX 70macs. Even the shop has a big poster of her as 700. I had not seen her since those days, she was nearly destroyed in a wreck since then.

734 is just into Helmstetter's curve here, having just crossed Cash Valley road.

The Cap glides out of Cumberland, heading east. It has just crossed over to the east bound main, having made a station stop at Cumberland on the more passenger friendly west bound main. CSX 4567 w... (more)

Tower operator Will Goff gets into the armstrong lever at the 106 year old Keyser Tower. "Z" Tower and Will both retired August 4th of this year. The interlocking is now handled by a Huntington di... (more)

Cloud shadows dance on the hills as 494,312 lead 10,000 tons of coal and two AC4400CW's at the rear across the bridge at the dam. The coal is going uphill here, to the big power plant at Mt Storm,... (more)

3060 leads a GP 15 in NS paint and a string of GP 15's still in Conral Blue. I suspect these engines are or soon will be off the roster, and probably on the way to Larry's Electric!

Mark St Aubin baling coal into 734's greedy firebox. The stoker is not working this day, and Mark will get a workout, hand bombing the old girl all the way to Frostburg.

This nice little train is a "Murder Mistery" Train. It leaves the station at 6pm, which allows light on this side of the train and station. The three cars are those used as the first class cars on... (more)

The great old Western Maryland Fireball, born in the steam era, never looked as good as it did to me than the day I saw it on 734 with steam swirling about, as the crew readied her for the day's r... (more)

342 and mate have a bad order hopper in tow here. They are bringing it down from the coal loader at Morrison's, and will crossover to the near track here, which is the old Western Maryland Thomas ... (more)

The SD40-2's, three to our right of 6485, were taken from a line of them out back of the shops. I think they are to be rewired here at Cumberland, sent to Huntington for mechanical work and paint.... (more)

Not stored quite as neat as at Altoona! 403's hood rests on two ties surrounded by grass..the rest of her is in the Winchester & Western shop getting a "massage". Love WW's Nickle Plate paint sche... (more)

A brace of engines lead by 7829 wait while a manifest out of sight on the west bound main halts for a signal to cross the east bound main and enter the yard. When the manifest clears, they will b... (more)

The hard to photograph WMSR is shown here in the "green tunnel" of Parksburg Straight. There was a spot about twenty feet long that sun broke across the row. So I prefocused, and waited. The old g... (more)