Heading west along the former B&O's Magnolia Cutoff in January, 2012 is train Q217. The head end is passing thru Graham Tunnel, a 900 foot bore thru Tunnel Hill bordered on both sides by the Potom... (more)

Q217 with a pair of standard cab EMD units descends the roller coaster grade west of Rossville on track 1 of the Philly Sub.

Not a GEVO in sight! Q217 with a pair of SD40-2's for power is westbound on the Philly Sub, crossing the Bush River, at Belcamp, MD.

Looking more like a lashup from the 1990s this westbound autorack train is lead by a GP40-2, an SD 40-2 and an SD 50-2.

Q217 with an ex LMS leader is westbound at Bush St, on the Baltimore Terminal Subdivision, with the Baltimore skyline towering in the background.

Empty autoracks head back west on Q217-01, passing through Gaithersburg on a pretty spring day. The times they keep on changing, and a new housing development peers over the scene on the right.

Q217 is west on track 1 of the Capital Subdivision, crossing the historic Thomas Viaduct.

Q217 with a UP leader is west on track 1 of the CSX Capital Subdivision passing the hind end of Q398 stopped on track 2 at St Denis awaiting a traffic jam in the Baltimore Terminal to clear up.

An empty autorack train heads west past the bridge at Hobbs about to meet an eastbound V646 that is just behind the photographer. The two locomotives show how inconsistent CSX is with choosing the... (more)

Q217 hammers west towards Baltimore on CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision.

Regular afternoon autoracks Q217 and Q249 are no strangers to having interesting power. Case and point with today's 217 with an ex-Conrail C40-8W and trailing SD40-2.

A late running Q217 nears West Van Bibber on CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision.

Exiting Graham Tunnel and crossing the Potomac River across Kessler Bridge is Q217 just east of Paw Paw, WV. The rear of the train is still at Magnolia, WV while passing through the tunnel it is i... (more)

Q217 passes under one of the many B&O signal bridges that once graced numerous locations along the Cumberland Sub.

With the newly operational Sir Johns signals behind, CSX Q217 heads west past the small West Virginia hamlet along the banks of the Potomac River. The code line to the right will be next on CSX's ... (more)