“Starrucca Fare”
Interior view of the 120 foot-long former dining hall of Starrucca House, during renovations of the cathedral-like space in 1987. The impressively-sized (325 ft faç... (more)

Winter’s slime hides an early—but not the first—CSX paint scheme on CSXT 6589, as the former B&O 4014 leads a late Orange Blossom Special-South through the “Hanover Curve”, westbo... (more)

“No Coke, Pepsi”
On a muggy July evening before the Independence Day holiday, Conrail U23Bs 2702 and 2768 haul a ballast train west on the Port Road, approaching Minnick (mp 2... (more)

“WM to the Rescue”
At HX interlocking, a worn-looking former Western Maryland SD40, now the lead unit, begins to pull a long string of empty hoppers west, after being added to the he... (more)

“Warhorses”
Two U.S. Army GE 80-ton center cabs, USAX 1674 and USAX 1685, reside next to the Pennsylvania & Southern Railway locomotive shop in the Cumberland Valley Business Park. B... (more)

“High Water Mark”
Westbound CSX Q015-13 (toward camera) and CSX Q136-13 (going away) meet at the tiny village of Sand Patch, PA, a quarter mile west of the “Summit of the Allegheni... (more)

“You Pull 4300 Tons…”
...and what’ya get? Well, with a compromised power assortment, you get a stall, just moments after this exposure. With 31 cement loads out of Union Bridge, ... (more)

“They Don't Build 'Em Like That Anymore”
E. Francis Baldwin, B&O’s principal architect, designed the railroad’s third Oakland station (1884), which opened for business in 1885. ... (more)

“Modus Operandi: N2A”
The St. Louis Trailer Train, powered by Chessie System/ B&O GP40-2 4137, CS/B&O GP40-2 4425, and C&O SD40 7562, in N2A configuration, is westbound on Track 1, c... (more)

An unidentified manifest (although I suspect Philadelphia/East Side to Saginaw R397) led by a U36B in Seaboard System paint, departs Brunswick yard in the afternoon of August 21, 1988. WB Tower ca... (more)

“Heavy Lift”
Maryland Midland’s UBHF (westbound) assaults the 1.84% grade leaving Thurmont, MD. With no work at NVR Building Products this day, at least they’re favored with a ru... (more)

“Extra 270 at EMX”
Coming off the former RDG Catawissa Branch, Reading and Northern’s Fall Foliage F-unit excursion (Reading Outer Station to Jim Thorpe and return) is southbound o... (more)

“Fade to Pink”
With its bright red and silver paint now faded, GCK 101 sits—stack capped—waiting on a tank car of kaolin slurry that will never come, at the shuttered Verso paper... (more)

“No Surrender”
Flying the white flags of an extra, The West Virginian, an excursion sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter/NRHS, along with Railtours of America and the B&O Railro... (more)

“Line of Departure”
The CSX local has already blown this burg for Hagerstown, as Maryland Midland’s conductor lines the switch in preparation for UBHF (here symbolled as CSX Z437) ... (more)