Wheeling and Lake Erie power leads empties westbound over the Potomac River with Maryland Heights in the background on a beautiful Spring day.
The Capitol Limited with two units in 40th Anniversary Paint Schemes. The leader AMTK 156 in Phase 1 and the 3rd unit AMTK 66 in Phase 2 scheme. Shown running wrong main through Brunswick due to c... (more)
Any bit of elevation helps, as a railfan on a step ladder gets a shot of the Capital Limited passing the Tower and Station in Brunswick, MD.
A Maryland State Trooper gets the story from the driver of a car wedged up against the mainline near the Weverton interlocking. The Q276 crew stopped just in time to avoid hitting the stuck vehicl... (more)
NS Export move 098 leads 3 locomotives for Arcelor Mittal. Pictured are units 093, 092 & 0931 crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to West Virginia. These units are reportedly headed to Liberi... (more)
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.
Crew change for the Circus Train at Brunswick for the last leg of the trip to Washington, D.C. No time to waste as "The Greatest Show on Earth" will have the elephant walk later in the day on Capi... (more)
One of the few SD70ACe engines lead the newly released SD40-3 CSX 4009 out of the yard at Brunswick onto mainline headed west.
Coal trail splits the signal at Hobbs with a load of coal heading east.
Q416 with only two of the seven units on line struggles up the grade towards Cumberland. The second unit 8867 puts out quite a bit of smoke.
A young railfan snaps a picture of a waiting helper as the rear end of the coal train it will shove goes by.
The Capitol Limited arrives in the Queen City before continuing onto Washington DC.
Looking more like Colorado with the BNSF power and rock cut this eastbound manifest sits at the Bud Board waiting for Cumberland Yard to open up.
A freshly painted GP40-2 shoves a cut of cars from the Pearson Yard lead onto track 1 of the Cumberland Sub. This local train would eventually make a daytime appearance on the CSX Frog Hollow Bran... (more)
NS 80MACs 7200, 7209 and 7205 shove the rear of a coal train that just came off the mountain into Altoona Yard. Leading the train are 7212 and 7205.
