“The World’s Fastest Locomotive…”
…so claimed the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1949.

From 1983-1989 Strasburg Rail Road rostered No. 7002, leased from the Pennsylvania Histo... (more)

At 08:56, Maryland Midland’s stone train (UBST), as light engines, bridges Little Pipe Creek, southbound at mp 16.4 on the MDOT Sub (the former PRR/PC Frederick Secondary). Called at Union Bridg... (more)

“Rock ‘n Roll”
At 09:36, Maryland Midland’s UBST departs the S.W. Barrick quarry with a healthy (26 car) train of aggregate destined for Barrick’s Finksburg Terminal at Cedarhu... (more)

“Emmitsburg Jct. Redux”
Still operating on its winter schedule despite the calendar, Maryland Midland’s UBHF, with 34 loads of Portland cement (about 4800 tons), charges west past ... (more)

Configured 1+1+0, CSX priority intermodal I016 (Bedford Park, IL-Chambersburg, PA) is eastbound on No. 1 Main at Sleepy Creek (BA 117.5), already lined to transition onto the Lurgan Sub at Cherry ... (more)

“Sloppy Seconds”
Still in C&O garb from its recent charters, “C&O”/WMSR 1309 arrives at the former C&P Frostburg depot at 14:42 with Frostburg Flyer Winter Service Train #... (more)

CSX priority intermodal I016 (Bedford Park, IL-Chambersburg, PA), approaching Valley Street on No. 2 Main at 08:46, is an early arrival into the Cumberland Terminal on 02/18/2023, 27 minutes ahea... (more)

Approaching the Mexico Curve, Amtrak 43(21), the westbound Pennsylvanian, bisects Book’s Farm at PT 148.6 on the Pittsburgh Line.

“Double Your Pleasure”
Having already dragged 8 cement loads up the mountain to the CSX interchange at Highfield, UBHF, as light engines, returns east to retrieve the remaining 23 lo... (more)

“Thanks, Uncle Pete”
Four Union Pacific units trail NS 8148 as they bring NS 24R west through Newport Curve, one of the broad curves imposed by the Juniata River, at PT 130.5 on the ... (more)

“Susky Crossing”
Amtrak 155(7), a NYP-WAS Northeast Regional, led by ACS-64 AMTK 638, sprints [pun intended] across the “Susquehanna River Movable Bridge” into Havre de Grace, MD... (more)

“Oh, It Looks Good on You Though”
Potomac Eagle Scenic’s Green Spring Special nears the end of its northward trip at mp 1.0, near Millen, just shy of Green Spring, WV. See r... (more)

“Rockville Meet”
A Norfolk Southern manifest, led by NS C44-9W 9475, meets eastbound NS intermodal 20W, powered by an AC44C6M duo, on the Rockville Bridge.

NS 20W (Chicago-A... (more)

“Shining Upon Man”
Three SD70 variants wrestle NS’s Conway to Edgemoor manifest 36A up the 1.05% grade of the West Slope on Track 3, and through the slide fence-equipped cut at Cas... (more)

“The End of the Beginning”
Manned helper BAYL 3065 shoves on the rear of 30 Lehigh Cement loads (roughly 4200 tons) as UBHF plies west through Graceham, en route to the CSX interchan... (more)