At first glance it looks like a major derailment occured but in reality every track, switch & Crossover is being replaced at the same time at Mexico Tower ... in this scene a few hours earlier bef... (more)

Q317 with CSXT 6961...ex - Chesapeake & Ohio GP40-2 #4183

Empty Hoppers westbound departing downtown Cumberland past the well known Amtrak Baltimore Street and don't forget the Holiday Inn!

Over 3 Dozen Locomotives are still in the deadline & Storage area behind CSX's Locomotive Shops... most of them pictured here

Taking a closer look we find a wide variety of mostly EMD power around the Cumberland Locomotive Shops including a pair taking a spin on the turntable

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)

Q317 and it's train, seen in the background, starts in journey over The Mountain Sub.

Todays helper CSX worktrain departs Cumberland,Md

Q277-08 snakes its way thru the Queen City

Q277-08 departs with almost 6000 feet of train & great looking lashup considering its 2010

The engineer gives a friendly wave as his single SD70MAC leads a loaded coal train into Cumberland. He's probably happy to be getting home just ahead of the advancing thunderstorm!

CSX "Pumpkin" 9703 was an ex-RF&P GP40 built without dynamic brakes. It teamed with a U23B "Pumpkin" to move a ballast train off of the connection to the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.

Westbound CSX worktrain departs Cumberland,Md with 34 loads of Ballast

The first time i have personally ever witnessed 2 moving westbounds out of Cumberland,Md on the 2 different subdivisions at the exact same time spaced out about as perfect as one can ask fo... (more)

The deadline at Cumberland included some WM Alcos.