734 hammers uphill passing a pretty stand of Goldenrod. Notice the fairly clear stack..good coal, good fireman!

Bad Moon rising? The class unit of the CSX C40-8 fleet sits patiently at the Amtrak station in Cumberland. The reason for the wait, not only an inbound Q316, but more importantly the arrival of he... (more)

Idle for now, soon though another trip up the east slope of Sand Patch under the cover of darkness is in store for this Queen City regular.

The conductor of 312, in the foreground, has come out of it's cab to give Q130 look over as it heads east with a string of containers. After the Q passes, he will give it an "all looks good", and ... (more)

Beautiful downtown Cumberland as a backdrop. Just 32 seconds later Amtrak enters the picture. That scene looked like this http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=297968 All 3 trains in th... (more)

Downtown Cumberland is one of those picture perfect places that most often goes overlooked while railfanning the area

The shop's Rail King pulls 70 Mac 4721 out of the house and on to the table, and as soon as the engine is clear of the shop, an employee starts it up, as you can see by the puff of smoke from it's... (more)

Leaving the Queen City for a trip west over Sand Patch

4505 shows off the latest in safety equipment at the shop. This yellow gadget is designed to keep workers from falling off the top of locomotives.

The leader of a trio of -8's sits under the lights in Cumberland. Soon the train will plunge into the darkness for its nocturnal trip over Sand Patch.

A beautiful fall day and "rods down" highlight this photo of 734 on a late day fall extra run.

149 and friend bring West Virginia coal into Cumberland, coming off the mountain sub traveling eastbound and crossing over to the west bound main, along side of busy Henderson Avenue.

The Capitol Limited crosses over to the eastbound main at Mexico Tower. You can see Q130 in the background, it's been held to let the late running Cap out of Cumberland first.

This is the road crossing at Woodcock Hollow, and that's 734, her Hancock bellowing, dashing over the roadway. The auto in the background looks might small beside the big 2-8-0.

These two faded "dark future" engines are in a rare move here, with coal headed west over the viaduct. It's going to a West Virginia power plant. Most coal comes from that state, east bound! Late ... (more)