Sunrise glint at City Junction. Just moments after the sun made its appearance above the hills to the east, Western Maryland 1309 begins her spirited charge up the hill out of Cumberland, p... (more)

A trail-side portrait. Here's a trail-side portrait of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's recently restored Mallet Locomotive #1309, posing at the west portal of Brush Tunnel (MP 172.2)... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 comes around the famous Helmstetter's Curve with a giant cloud of smoke.

"Fall on the Mountain": Even with most of the foliage gone from the 2022 fall season, color still remains in the trees and mountainsides outside of Cumberland, MD as Western Maryland #13... (more)

"Fall on the Mountain": Even with most of the foliage gone from the 2022 fall season, color still remains in the trees and mountainsides outside of Cumberland, MD as Western Maryland #13... (more)

A moment on the recent Trains Magazine charter.

Mallet Articulated 2-6-6-2 #1309 performs the first runby of the weekend, soon after leaving Cumberland for Frostburg.

Brilliant peak fall colors light up the mountain slopes in Cumberland, Maryland as Western Maryland H-6 Mallet #1309 charges north for the Narrows on November 5, 2022.

"Shadow, Steel and Steam": Silhouetted against a brilliant mountain sunrise Western Maryland #1309, ex-C&O, charges north for the Narrows on the former Western Maryland right of way. Mea... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 crosses over one of the former Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad bridges.

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 steams through the Cumberland Narrows on a warm autumn morning, with the sun illuminating the mountainside full of orange leaves. In this 1 second exposure, W... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 cleans out the droplets while coming around the curve Garner's Meadow.

Western Maryland H-6 #1309 simmers under the moonlit night sky outside of Brush Tunnel on November 4, 2022 along the former Western Maryland right of way.

"Mountain Thunder Redux" - The still of a peaceful morning in Cumberland, Maryland is broken by the chest thumping power of a 1949 Baldwin Locomotive Works product, Western Maryland, ex-... (more)

Western Maryland 1309 thunders past West Sunnyside for the Trains Magazine photo charter.