A pure BNSF engine consist..with a "Swoosh" leading a hot manifest will not stop in the yards, the train is on the easbound main at track speed. The trackage in the foreground are leads for the y... (more)

U 813 leaves the Keyser Yard headed east with eighty or so hoppers of West Vriginia coal. The older bridge in the photo will be replaced with a new one, which is what the new steel is for.

The signature of 17 Mile Grade..big diesel muscle, empty hoppers, steep grade, water and limestone. It's all in this one. The faded nose of 310 belies the power she still has.

The "Cap" cants around the east side of the rock cut at Patterson's Creek. The signals guard a crossover and a passing siding on the eastbound main. She's on the westbound main here, traveling eas... (more)

526 leads it's train of empty hoppers bound for the coal fields of West Virginia under a road bridge that will soon be replaced. And the old Baltimore and Ohio passenger station on the right will ... (more)

The two tracks in front of our train here are the mains leading to and from 17 Mile Grade. It's on an interchange track which will lead it and it's eighty or so loads of coal up the old Western Ma... (more)

9018, a GE C40-9W, is the helper on this manifest. It's working easily at track speed here, but it won't be long till she'll be throttled up on Sand Patch Grade.

A BNSF Ace swooshes into town with another BNSF six axle and a CSX four axle in the loco consist.

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)

This is in the lovely Potomac Valley, 24 leading Q 317 west toward Keyser, WVA. Former B&O as the old cpl's suggest.

Big power almost fills Piedmont as they move Q 317 west, passing one of the few CPLs left on the mountain sub. I used to watch EM-1's pass this very signal a long time ago!

Ex UP, now CREX 9042 is working easy here as it leads a loaded eastbound autorack under the signals at Yoder.

If you look closely, you can see all seven engines on today's daily manifest. The old clapboard building in front of 267's nose is what is left of the old Cumberland and Pennsylvania Depot, and wa... (more)

This coal haul has been stopped in order to let the eastbound Capital Limited pass on the westbound main, next to the small home. Not much of a front yard there! The spur in the left of the phot... (more)

Helper set 517 and 539 rest in back of a string of empty hoppers ready to go west. They will get a crew and pull out on the main, head west and help a coal haul up to the power plant at Mt Storm.