A shiny pair of EMDX engines numbers 1205 and 1204 lead the Q400 Hamlet, NC - Cumberland, MD manifest train past the historic E.F. Baldwin designed Point of Rocks Station. Thanks Sean Hoyden for u... (more)
CSX rail gang is hard at work on track 1 making improvements to the Cumberland Sub. Q400 with several engines slowly passes the men and equipment making some noise on the trip west.
Morning sun pokes through the morning fog and through the trees, and off of a quick Q400 as it races West at Harpers Ferry.
The sun sneaks behind Sideling Hill to my west and casts shadows along the Cacapon River Valley but also on the B&O CPL Signals like here in Great Cacapon as within 36 hours, they would light no m... (more)
A pair of radial-trucked units on the way to Cumberland, MD
NB CSX Q400 starts across the mile long Roanoke River viaduct and eases pass the newly erected Rockfish Capital Of The World sign in Weldon, NC, which it is famous for.
Q400 rolls west on track one at the Cherry Run interlocking. Four tracks converge at this location. In the foreground from left to right is the Lurgan Sub from Hagerstown, the Cumberland Sub Low G... (more)
Crossing over from track two over to track one is Q400 as it heads toward the setting sun to the west.
Good to see an SD40-2 leading the way.
Four CSX GEs lead a 141 car long Q400 west underneath the aging signal bridge at Ambrose, WV on a gorgeous winter morning. This signal bridge is slated to be ripped out, but not replaced, permanen... (more)
I wanted an EB to split the signals, but CSX sent me a WB! A manifest is good to see, any day, any time. Same with a CPL.
Q400 rolls west through CPL alley on the former B&O main.
As CPLs are removed from many locations across the former B&O, the Cumberland Subdivision still hosts a large concentration of them....for at least a little while longer.
The "Spirit of Benning" heads up Q400 on a cool spring morning