Triple Crown & Snow Extra! .. actually Its the first revenue train westbound near Irwin @ MP 330.5 With 22+ inches of heavy wet snow for the westbound RoadRailer to plow...unfortunately... (more)

Helper set eastbound on the slide

CSX Locomotive Shops Click here for latest Deadline Storage Picture

Two things you don't see to often in the same picture. American LaFrance Firetruck of this vintage still in service and a CSX derailment in Munhall....... RJ Cornman was already on the scene to g... (more)

Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain

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

Derailment of CSX Q539 drags and derails 6 cars, 5 of them are over the hillside taking out about 800 feet of rail & cement ties with them. The line reopened 4 hours after WO772-28 dumps ballast o... (more)

Crews work in pouring rain to finish the cleanup of a Derailment of 11J early Monday morning at Aprox 04:30 at Radebaugh ( CP Rade ). The tracks on the right are for i... (more)

BMEC shops where new locomotives are born! Metro North 401 is almost ready to ship and is to be used for work trains on the Metro North. This unit is equipped with dual control stands

What you won't see in Trains Magazine in March of the Cumberland Maryland Locomotive Shops

A beautiful ariel view of the West End of the Yard in Cumberland,MD

BNSF power on the last slab train over the W&LE massive Speers Trestle that sits above the Monongahela River next to Interstate 70

Vale mining locomotives are Brazil exports. The extra NS helper units added up front at CP Traff. Included in the lot are Vale initials (CVRD) 1265, 1266, 1267, 1268, 1269, 1270, 1271, 1272, 12... (more)

Sometimes things just seem to come together as was the case on this particular Saturdays excursion with the holiday season some fresh snow and ice & the star attraction of the night was none other... (more)