Highball at Number Nine Curve. After stopping briefly for trainmen to inspect a finicky hopper, Western Maryland 734's Engineer receives the highball and opens the cylinder cocks and thrott... (more)
Fireball freight heads west. Wearing the fireball logo of the Western Maryland Railway, a heavy 2-8-0 heads west around Helmstetter's Curve with a freight consist on a bleak January morning... (more)
A breaking overcast on a cool fall morning finds Western Maryland 734 accelerating a heavy coal drag from a dead stop at West Sunnyside.
Fast freight through Cumberland. "Mountain Thunder" highballs a short freight past the 97 year-old Western Maryland Station in downtown Cumberland, during the finale of a day-long, Carl Fra... (more)
The time machine pays a visit: Beefy Western Maryland Consolidation #734 runs the last hundred yards of the westbound run into Frostburg. The trains are far less frequent, the freights are gone... (more)
Running The Narrows - Part II. The constant hum of rush hour traffic in downtown Cumberland begins to fade as the ears become aware of an almost explosive, staccato barking sound approachin... (more)
Running The Narrows - Part I. Western Maryland's Consolidation #734 runs the 900 ft. deep canyon known as "The Narrows", just a mile northwest of downtown Cumberland. She's pulling a heav... (more)
A Western Maryland Fast Freight highballs through Cumberland. The shot of the day on the third and final of the John Helmstetter Benefit charters occurred not at some remote photo location,... (more)
Cab ride anyone? A CBS News Videographer sent to cover the John Helmstetter story sets up for a shot that will give the viewing public a really close view of "Mountain Thunder" in ac... (more)
