“Will Not Exceed 10 MPH”
With some autumn color still evident, a westbound manifest approaches–at reduced speed–the boardwalk at the BTSC/Baltimore Terminal Service Center (mp 5.... (more)

A Western Maryland SD40 is going solo up the Potomac Valley in the spring of 1981. No. 7570 was built as the WM 7470 in 1966.

“On The Fly”
Diesel exhaust fills the air as a three-unit helper set, led by CS/B&O SD40-2 7613, cuts off “on the fly” at the east portal of Mt. Airy Tunnel after assisting an ea... (more)

Talk about the Baltimore & Ohio in West Virginia will often center around coal traffic, but there was also a good deal of products carried for the pulp and paper industry. Here two SD60 demonstrat... (more)

We’re Here to Fix Your Mistakes

After EMD’s SD50’s developed a reputation for being trouble-prone, the builder quickly introduced the improved SD60. Four demonstrator units w... (more)

Eastbound hoppers roll through Lansdowne, Maryland, on the Baltimore & Ohio. A pair of Chessie GP40-2’s (one C&O, one B&O) is powering the train.

A westbound CSXT freight emerges from Fort Spring Tunnel with ten units on the front. EMD SD40 helper 8370 is on an eastbound freight headed for Ronceverte. I was blissfully on my way home from a ... (more)

A trio of GP40-2s lead a CSX trailer train, utilizing long held trackage rights over the P&LE, through McKeesport, Pa.

After depositing its empties at a mine, the crew returns towards Rowlesburg with loads. They pause beside the Inter-State Lumber Company near Kingwood, WV (?).

“Jesus Saves”
With the rowhouses of South Baltimore in the background, CHGN (Chicagoan), lovingly referred to as the “Locust Point Flyer”, with a seven unit lashup (consisting of... (more)

A Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 and two Baltimore & Ohio GP9’s bring westbound empties out of Martinsburg, West Virginia.

SD60 Demonstrator EMD-4 and its mates have reached the bottom of Cranberry Grade at M&K Junction, West Virginia. They will continue on to Grafton with their train of empty hoppers.

“Off the Showroom Floor…Almost”
This pair of Chessie System units looks to have seen some very limited revenue service, but, having just been built in August, they certainly hadn�... (more)

Former C&O GP38, 3862 is on the head end of a mixed freight that has come down the Piney Creek Branch from Prince. Remnants of long gone steam days still linger in Raleigh Yard.

“Truncated Orange Blossom”
With only two engines (Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4296 and Seaboard System/SBD U30C 7238), and fewer than 20 trailers, an unusually short Orange Blossom Spe... (more)