It was fairly rare to see a caboose in active service in 1991, and even rarer when it was a Chessie safety caboose. A small fleet of these cabeese were painted in colorful liveries, each adorned ... (more)
I found this critter near CSX's Goodman yard.
A long cut of Chessie cabeese is stored in the former Western Maryland Knobmount Yard, awaiting disposition.
Rush hour motorists pay no mind to this coke train crossing the Parkway.
Scenes like this were still fairly common along former B&O lines in the 80's. In 1988, CSX's Mountain Sub still had active towers in Grafton, Hardman, Rowlesburg, Altamont, Keyser, and Cumberland... (more)
Heading west, 734 passes by a relic of Youngstown's steel making past. Thanks to Dave Baer and Vic Stone for making this shot possible!
The freshly ballasted track is the Allegheny Valley Railroad's new line to Azcon Scrap. When completed, AVR trains will be able to reach Sharpsburg via the Brilliant Branch Bridge.
During the summer of 1994 Conrail's doublestack clearance project was in full swing at Gallitzin.
Although Lake Erie (background) is frozen solid, ore trains continue to load at Ashtabula during the winter.
A few moments earlier the sun was shining brightly upon this slab train, the weather literally changed in the blink of an eye as a snow squall moved in from the west.
I knew the Union train was coming, but I didn't expect to see four vintage passenger cars in the yard!
Only one track is passable at Knoxville, due to a bad coal train derailment the night before.
Children frolic in Aquia Creek while #91 heads south on a very hot afternoon.
The light trails in the sky are from airplanes in the vicinity of National Airport.
This was one of the nicest lashups I ever saw on a W&LE grain train. Unfortunately, it was also the last grainer that I photographed since this traffic is not currently running to Hagerstown.
