When shooting the second and third of the four daily scheduled steam passenger runs between Poznan and Wolsztyn, two each way, it is generally impossible to get nose light. One notable exception... (more)

On this 94 degree day in DC, I fondly recall driving west last winter and watching as the temperature indication in the car fell from 28 at home to 8 trackside in WV. As winds were calm, it was ... (more)

Massive glint as the engine makes it way back to the engine house in reverse after having filled up on water.

The Capitol Limited passes by the remnants of Kensington's snow cleanup, which in part made use of a patch of grass near the station.

Capitol Limited passing WB through downtown Gaithersburg with the Veterans unit, AMTK 42, trailing. The new construction on the right fills the space of the long-ago wye at Gaithersburg, also bui... (more)

An east bound auto rack train crosses at Summit Road and begins to pass by the MARC station.

WMSR's big 2-8-0 starts the day, on the first weekend of the season, by firing up and getting its train together (backing down the track to the right of the distant WM engine), in the same WM yard... (more)

On a beautiful day, a freight passes the MARC platforms next to the former B&O freight house; the still-in-use passenger station is behind the photographer's left shoulder.

Part of only two of the five trainsheds (three with six tracks and two on the sides with four each) in the sizeable station at Frankfurt are visible. Engine class Baureihe 218 is part of the V 16... (more)

A crewman from the latest arrival hooks the train up to an air hose, thus maintaining air pressure throughout the train while it waits to move further east. In doing so the train joins not only t... (more)

I probably was sitting just a wee bit too close to the tracks when this one came by! I've learned my lesson.

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.

My old notes say this is a K578, but now I realize I've never heard of such a train. It could be an east bound rock runner, but the hoppers look empty. A puzzle.

The image tells you the location ...

Q411-08 passes under a pedestrian bridge decorated with symbols of the B&O and the City of Gaithersburg.