Author: Chris Denbow
Baltimore, MD
GP40 6565, still in Chessie paint, leads SD80AC 805 and a CW44AC on a U822 loaded coal train a few months after the Conrail splitup.
Intermodal train Q174 heads east towards Philadelphia behind CW60AC 5008 and two sister 60AC's.
CW44AC's 530 and 527 lead empty hopper train E725 west through Lansdowne on an early December morning.
Business train P911 sits across from the Baltimore Service Lane offices with F40PH2 9992 and SD60M 8771 for power.
CW60AC 686 starts intermodal train Q173 westbound after working at Bayview Yard.
Westbound intermodal train Q175 curves around Bailey's Wye in front of Ravens Stadium (now M&T Bank Stadium) in downtown Baltimore.
Mixed freight train Q398 is about to cross Ridgely St. behind CW40-8 7887 on it's way east to Bayview Yard.
CW44-6 654 brings intermodal train Q173 westbound through the curve behind the Lansdowne Inn.
Trailerjet Q175 heads westbound out of Baltimore, with snow still around a week after the big 2003 Valentine's Day storm.
L173 heads westbound out of Baltimore behind CW44-6 680 and two sister GE's.
CW44AC 5118 leads L439 around the west leg of Bailey's Wye bound for Washington.
Eastbound S410 heads past Bayview Yard led by SD70AC 4727, bound for Philadelphia.
CW44AC 356, the "Spirit of Brunswick", leads unit coal train U827 towards Baltimore.
Q173 blasts westbound thru Bayview with a couple of western visitors in the lashup.
Trailerjets (Q172 in front, Q173 behind) meet at the west end of Bayview Zard.
Yard job Y162 brings a loaded coal drag into Bayview, headed for Consol, on the southeast side of Baltimore.
On a day full of trailerjets, Q174 was next up, headed eastbound behind a 70AC and a pair of GE's.
Jersey-bound trailerjet Q174 cruises into Bayview Yard under gourgeous, clear, blue spring skies.
The first of 2 unusual trailerjets this day, Q172 heads eastbound, minus an RF&P cab-signalled leader, aed with 2 big autopart boxes up front.
Q174 chugs into Bayview Yard to switch out a cut of cars. Like Q172 earlier, this train is also missing an RF&P cab-signalled leader.
BNSF pumpkin D8-40CW 845 leads lite-power move X094 westbound out of Baltimore City.
Mixed junk freight rolls eastbound into Baltimore right before the sun goes down on a cold, wet, winter day.
Maryland Area Rail COmmuter (MARC) train P920 heads west to Washington with a long string of coaches behind GP40WH-2 57.
Blast from the past! MARC HEP/cab car 7100 (ex-B&O 4553, nee B&O 293A) passes below the same signals at Carroll that it once passed beneath in the 50's and 60's in B&O blue and gray.
Eastbound autoracks pull into Bayview Yard behind GE foreign power.
R410 heads eastbound thru Bayview Yard with an ACe up it's sleeve.
Dirty ES44DC 5260 starts eastbound after dropping it's cut of cars (to the left) at Bayview.
GEVO 5332 leads mixed manifest train Q406 into the yard limits of Bayview Yard as the clouds roll in.
"Love the heat shimmer!" CW60AC 636 heads east past the Bayview signals with mixed freight Q410 in tow.
CW44AC 561 and train Q405 pull out of Bayview Yard just after sunset, headed south to Rocky Mount, NC.
The "Spirit of West Virginia" (CSXT CW44AC 1) is on the point of U881, tied down, waiting for a crew.
Westbound Q173 makes it's way through the Lansdowne interlocking on a cool, late-summer day.
CW60AC 676 leads Selkirk, NY-bound manifest Q410 east into Bayview Yard on a busy Saturday morning.
Not enough 4-axles left on the mains, and not enough locals anymore! Local D777 has just backed up the lead out of Bayview Yard and is heading east with it's whopping train of 3 UTLX tankcars.
Trailerjet Q174 creeps through the morning fog eastbound into Bayview Yard behind a set of GEVO's.
Westbound L173 has made it's cut and is pulling forward to hook up to it's pickup cut, before continuing on west towards Virginia.
Eastbound mixed freight Q410 blasts into Bayview Yard, passing the outbound L173.
Philly-bound Q216 passes beneath the westbound Bayview signals behind older GE and EMD power.
One of CSX's newest pieces of equipment, ES44AH 907, leads L174 eastbound past one of CSX's oldest pieces of equipment, an ex-C&O Jordan Spreader.
Eastbound Tropicana juice train Q740 passes the signals at Bayview on it way to New Jersey on an early autumn afternoon.
Trailerjet Q174 has finished working the yard at Bayview and is on it's way east to Philly.
Mixed freight Q438 is finally underway after sitting at Clifton Park for awhile, with a cool mix of power.
Eastbound Tropicana Juice Train Q740 rolls through the west end of Baltimore's Bayview Yard on it's way to New Jersey.
Yard job Y139 pulls out of Bayview with empties from Consol, heading to Mt. Clare yard in east Baltimore.
Eastbound trailerjet Q174 pulls into the west end of Bayview yard to do some switching work.
Yard power MP15AC 1137 and GP38-2 2686 pull a cut of cars off of Q174, bound for PennMary yard.
Q398 takes the south leg of Bailey's Wye before entering Riverside Yard.
CW60AC 608 leads trailerjet Q034 eastbound under the Russell Street bridge.
GEVO 5215 is in charge of intermodal train L033 as it passes under West Ostend Street on the west leg of Bailey's Wye.
Loaded ethanol train K676 gets ready to cross Hollins Ferry Road on the Curtis Bay Branch.