The 1.75% grade begins just beyond here on the old Western Maryland mainline in the Narrows west of Cumberland, and the 1238 is pouring it on. The 1238 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works ... (more)

The daily “Frostburg Flyer” enters the Cumberland station on a beautiful fall day.

The L-26 (pumpkin patch limited) travels through the world famous narrows. Wills creek cut this route over millions of years of erosion, or so they say.

Holding at the “bud board” M421-17 awaits the yard masters word to allow them to enter the yards. CSX 7274 “Spirit of West Virginia” is also in trail. The fall color is starting to really ... (more)

BNSF 5195 heading east at Cumberland MD with a train for the Pasta plant in Winchester Va. Train will run to Brunswick Md where BNSF locomotives will be taken off and CSX units deliver to Winchest... (more)

CSX, Cumberland, MD. shops C&O 4291, CSX 4246 - 6524 - C&O 8413 - 9565, Cumberland, Maryland. July 2, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Making the pickup. The Bedford Park, IL bound I115-18 ties down on main 2 to enter the yard to make a pickup. Cumberland has become quite the hub for intermodal traffic in the past year. Panel swi... (more)

The CE&I heritage unit brings a coal drag down the Mountain Sub. The train will tie down and wait on a crew to take it to Newport News Coal Pier.

These monster stack trains that CSX now runs over the Keystone Sub can stretch all the way to the narrows while STILL working the yard. I don't know how many times I heard "20 more" ... (more)

The CSX heritage locomotive program sure has brightened the roster up! Chessie rides the Mountain sub again. C739 from Metikki Mine out side of Bayard, WV waits for a recrew to head east to Baltim... (more)

CSX moves earth. In more than one way. C748 with 100 loaded coal cars heads east to Baltimore while the CSX facility’s team works on removing the hump hill and relaying the east half of the “b... (more)

L162 crosses the viaduct as Western Maryland Scenic unit stages for a photo with the Western Maryland Heritage unit.

While copying an EC-1 for a partial crossing activation M317 is headed for the Mountain sub.

After a stop for a crew change in Cumberland, a mixed freight swings off the Keystone Sub onto the Mountain Sub to head west.

As a brief window of sun breaks through the storm clouds surrounding Cumberland, West Virginia CSX manifest freight M331-17 works the west end of Cumberland Yard. CSX ES44AC 834 is in the mid-trai... (more)