Charging uphill with a short freight on a great charter weekend.

Hey, a chase train can have its moment in the spotlight. Her a veteran of PRR/PC etc. is looking great after decades of drabness. Beautiful bygone schemes like this make me fearful that ugly is ... (more)

A watchful fireman doing much the same job as thousands of others over the years reminds us that this is fun for us but difficult and serious work for our train crew on these photo junkets. Hereâ... (more)

The engineer is oiling around as a crewman chats with visitors on the caboose platform...the occasion was Father's Day weekend in 2022 with the 1309 equipped with a PRR 3-chime passenger whistle

Snow falls on the Cumberland station as “The Polar Express” readies for another round of kids, cookies and hot chocolate!

A lite snow falls on the WMSR’s rendition of the classic movie “The Polar Express”! Dash 8 539 also wears a new coat of the railroads fireball scheme.

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.

Steam In The Woods. A miracle story of steam restoration, Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (née-Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad 1309, 2-6-6-2, Baldwin, 1949) was a regular part of the op... (more)

Western Maryland GP 9 #25 and 39 sit on the Western Maryland Scenic’s Georges Greek Branch. In time this branch and hopefully these locomotives will see regular service again.

Chase Gunnoe organized a small photo group to tour the Western Maryland Scenic Shop and photograph Western Maryland GP 9 #25 and 39 over on the George’s Greek. Ex C&O 1309 is currently in the s... (more)

WMSR 558 rounds Helmstetter’s curve with a special excursion to Frostburg for a concert.

Do What You Love The same friendly conductor from my last photo pulls his train into Ridgeley Yard to end the day. Before the next run, trailing Dash 8 #561 will need some air compressor r... (more)

Do What You Love The conductor on the Western Maryland Scenic's Allegheny Winter Express is happy to see us as he makes his way through Woodcock Hollow.

Old Horse WMSR 561, a recently required ex-Norfolk Southern B32-8 ends its uphill trip to Frostburg. According to one of the conductors, the 561's air compressor broke during this trip, le... (more)