Q 249 with W&LE power heads west at Shen

Q249 passes WB Tower in Brunswick, MD.

Surprise W&LE power on train Q-249 West.

Operators view from HF Tower of westbound autorack train Q249 powered by oddly enough, 3 Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2's.

CSX SD80MAC leads an empty autorack running wrong main west. CSX MOW personnel watch the roll by as they are removing the codeline and poles at Weverton. Thanks CRB and BGA.

Westbound Q249 pops out of Pinkerton Tunnel as it descends the west slope of Sand Patch Grade.

Westbound Q249 drops downgrade on the west slope of Sand Patch Grade. The two lines split here. This train is on the High Grade and will soon enter Brook Tunnel. The other track is the Low Grad... (more)

Late day westbound Q249 approaches Coraopolis.

CSX Q249 Heads west with no cars. This train normally hauls autoracks but for the last few weeks has ran empty on certain days.

249 pops out of Carothers Tunnel and enters the long stretch of tangent track just east of Paw Paw. Earlier in the day, Jim Johnston caught this train east of here in Sleepy Creek.

An increasingly rare sight to see an SD40-2 leading on the Cumberland Sub. Pictured here leading an empty auto rack train west.

Visualizing the shot before the train arrived, I thought a long train of autoracks stretched around the curves would look pretty nice. Unfortunately, 249 was only running as light power on this da... (more)

Helper pushes 249 out of town and over sandpatch