Look again its Cumberland,Md .... not China... as Fog, haze & and an unususal early departure time of this WMSR train creates this "Mountain Maryland" image shortly after the sun rises ov... (more)

After completing the days excursion, 734 slowly pulls into Ridgely and eventually turns at the Wye before parking on the other side of the shops

Q388 eastbound at the edge of the western portal of Falls Cut Tunnel just east of Foley on sandpatch

Engineer Cody Cook at the controls of WMSR 501 & WMSR 502 giving a helping hand to 734 on this dark gray day trip to Frostburg

Detouring due to the wreck of Q358 at Koppel.Pa on the Pittsburgh Sub, Q261 rolls west onto the Mingo Creek Trestle the highest on the W&LE,the former Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad

OCS P902 enters the Cumberland Narrows at the famous Bud Board on their way west

It just can't be. All 8 units are EMD on the Pittsburgh Line... someone will no doubt pay for this lashup on 11A today

Ahhh so you want to help me paint 402 well put away the camera and grab a paint gun!BMEC where brand new locomotives are born! Metro North 402 is to be used for work trains

Fresh out of Juniata and winding behind Alto Tower and onto the Cove Secondary towards Duncansville is the new series of Slugs

The big picture at Foley aka FO on the sandpatch grade has helper ahead long hood forward opposite main. Can you spot the 1/2 moon in this late morning picture? CSX 8633 CSX 8404 CSX 8074 CSX

Cumberland Helper races east just west of Ellerslie,Md so we are still physically in rural Hyndman,Pennsylvania untill it crosses the state line in about 10 seconds! pan at 1/25th

Didn't have to dig thru the archives to come up with this snowy day shot as i catch this wild looking helper unit on Q359-19 just east of Hyndman

Juniata Terminal's PRR EMD E-8's pull a 10 car consist out of the single track Portage Tunnel for another trip around Horseshoe Curve during Railfest 2007

Westbound freight thru the Cumberland Narrows between Wills & Haystack Mountain's