To serve the Camp Hill pipe mill, the URR typically stationed a switcher in McKeesport, across the CSX main from The Daily News.
Vintage, manually controlled semaphores and an elderly Northwestern GP7 create an interesting juxtaposition with a much more modern Fresh Express container.
The Western Maryland Railway no longer exists, but two traces of it can be seen in this photo. Faded Western Maryland lettering remains on the bridge, and the 6157 still proudly wears her WM init... (more)
The N&W has been gone since 1982, but the Norfolk And Western Railway Company sign on this bridge remains in remarkably good shape, decades after it was installed.
Slow train, fast car - AVR 2's GP10 and my Acura Integra.
The last Western Maryland engine on CSX visits Cumberland for its 90 day inspection. Thanks to a gent from the UK who saw this photo, I am now the proud owner of a numberboard from this historic ... (more)
Viewed from the historic but dilapidated Hilltop House, K455 crosses the Potomac with a pair of CN GEs leading westbound ethanol empties.
A W&W geep and slug take a break at Gore, they'll be there until the railroad resumes operations, after Christmas.
After crossing the Ohio River 23W descends the steep ramp as it approaches the junction with the Ft. Wayne Line.
An early summer morning finds a GP 30 backing up towards an SD 50 and a GP 30m at the west end of Keyser. It always seemed to be a lot easier to wake up early and photograph trains in the summer ... (more)
Knobmount Yard, final resting place for many old Chessie cars.
Just west of the summit of the Alleghenies, Amtrak's Capitol Limited glides through Sand Patch.
5533 leads an eastbound TV train through CP 6 on the recently (re)doubletracked Mon Line.
303 sleeps the night away in Barton, across the street from the town post office.
This is the old B&O grain elevator adjacent to Locust Point yard. It has been out of service since 2002 and there are now plans to convert it into a residential structure.
