The Canadian Pacific’s 1991 takeover of the Delaware & Hudson made appearances by Alco-designed Centuries a frequent occurrence on Baltimore- and Potomac Yard-bound trains. Of course, getting the ... (more)

The “acid train”, CP/D&H train 700, starts its journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore at the entrance to CSX’ East Side Yard. Fortunately the drab GATX SD40-2, which was destined to become a CP B-... (more)

Saturday, October 25, 1975 dawned as miserably as any autumn day could. Rain came in waves, with frequent downpours. Nonetheless, I was going out to take photos, because a double-headed steam excu... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 continues its assault of B&O’s Seventeen Mile Grade at Swanton, Maryland. This Chessie Safety Express excursion ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Terra Alta, Wes... (more)

Former Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 614 leads the Chessie Safety Express up B&O’s Seventeen Mile Grade at Bond, West Virginia. There was no better place to be to hear the stack talk.

Western Maryland Shay 6 leads as its photo freight along the Greenbrier River at Hosterman, West Virginia during the 1981 Cass Railfan weekend. Hosterman is on the former C&O Greenbrier Division ... (more)

Western Maryland 6 switches its photo freight prior to departure during the 1981 Cass Railfan weekend. The big Shay has left a trail of steam and smoke over the track that curves past the engine ... (more)

The 1981 Railfan Weekend ay Cass Scenic Railroad featured a Friday evening trip on the former C&O along the Greenbrier River north of Cass. Saturday’s events were a doubleheaded trip to Bald Knob ... (more)

It’s the 1986 Blue Mountain & Reading Railfan Weekend, and two trains are running all day long, with different power on almost every trip. In preparation for meeting a southbound train pulled by R... (more)

The Blue Mountain & Reading’s former Gulf, Mobile & Northern 4-6-2-425 drifts across the Maiden Creek with a scheduled excursion train. The Pacific, best known by contemporary fans as the blue-pai... (more)

The star of the 1988 Blue Mountain & Reading’s 1988 Railfan Weekend was Reading Company Technical & Historical Society’s newly-restored Reading C630. Here the big Alco poses for photographers on t... (more)

A westbound B&O manifest with a blue B&O GP40 and two Chessie geeps rolls through the cut at Whitemarsh, Maryland.

A Philadelphia-bound piggyback train speeds east through Belcamp, Maryland on CSX’ former B&O Philadelphia Subdivision. A Chessie-branded Western Maryland GP40-2 and a Baltimore & Ohio GP40 provid... (more)

A westbound manifest crosses the huge Baltimore & Ohio Susquehanna River Bridge approaching Havre de Grace, Maryland. Located near the mouth of the river and its entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, th... (more)

A combination of RF&P and B&O geeps lead the southbound Orange Blossom Special across the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace, Maryland. The Kearney, New Jersey – Tampa, Florida intermodal ... (more)