A pair of six axle motors get ready to lift Alpha-Jet WAJ-1 out of the Queen City and over the mountain to Connellsville on a fine summer night. In 1975 all would have went well with this plan, bu... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 734 performs a run by on a Carl Franz photo special

What could mostly pass for in the Wild Mary days is actually a look from inside the cab of GCK 7436 as she and her sister GCK 7471 get ready to make a trip up the hill on home rails. These engines... (more)

Cumberland, MD 7/9/12 - Former Western Maryland SD-40 7471 is once again on home rails, running along what was once WM's Connellsville Subdivision. Having hauled Alpha-Jet trailer trains and coal ... (more)

The Georges Creek Railway ex Western Maryland engines 7471 and 7436 are being rearranged from nose to nose to back to back.

Cumberland, MD 7/9/12 - The Western Maryland Railway Lives: after being brought home to WM rails in authentically restored paint, this pair of former Western Maryland SD's made a test run up the f... (more)

Cumberland, MD 5/26/2012 - As a summer storm fades in the background, Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's GP-30 pulls a dinner train into the former WM Cumberland station, as a pair of authenticall... (more)

A local sits on the siding at the Cumberland, MD Western Maryland Railway Station as a young boy approaches. A crewman steps down and gives the boy a piece of WM literature. This event would ignit... (more)

Taken with special permission and under supervision of the George's Creek Railway. 7471 sits idling and awaits for it's crew to board at Cumberland and take it and its train to Connellsville.

Taken with special permission and under supervision of the George's Creek Railway. A Western Maryland Railway local has just pushed a loaded box car from a siding in Cumberland and pauses at the ... (more)

A couple friends nad I had some fun putting this together. Preparing to depart Cumberland, MD on the Western Maryland Railway as the Marker Lights get on board.

WMSR 734 works nicely thru the Narrows, steam coming from what I've been told is a reproduction whistle as used on the Western Maryland's Potomacs.

Cumberland, MD 5/26/2012 - Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's GP-30 501 is backing the consist of a special evening dinner train from the former WM Cumberland station towards Ridgeley Yard as Memo... (more)

Cumberland, MD 5/26/2012 - Under heavy summer rainshowers, both faux and authentic Western Maryland locomotives are on WM rails at the Cumberland station. The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's WM... (more)

Cumberland, MD 5/26/2012 - But for the "GCK" reporting marks on the side sill and an air conditioning unit placed above the cab of SD-35 7436, it would be hard to tell that this photograph was not... (more)