Author: Ryan Thomas
Running about an hour late, Amtrak's Capitol Limited crosses the Potomac at Harpers Ferry as it continues towards Washington DC
On a beautiful fall day, CSX E726 pulls west on track one
Westbound coal train CSX E722 races west on one through North WB.
After slowing for the festivities in downtown Brunswick, CSX K631 picks up speed as it continues west on one.
After the recrew in Cumberland, CSX Q276 continues its journey east to Baltimore, enterin.g the Cumberland Sub
CSX Q401 takes its first steps out of Cumberland as it starts its journey towards Brunswick and eventually Hamlet, NC.
With a interesting lash-up of power, CSX Q217 crawls up to Mexico on one track. The power would eventually leave the train and head into the yard.
With a interesting lash-up of power, CSX Q217 crawls up to Mexico on one track. The power would eventually leave the train and head into the yard.
As rain begins to pick up, CSX Q249, on time, races around the Q217 that sits on one track. He would make his way up to Baltimore Street to make a crew change.
Amtraks Capitol Limited rounds a curve near Harpers Ferry, as the last remnants of fall surround it.
Amtraks Capitol Limited rounds a curve near Harpers Ferry, as the last remnants of fall surround it.
CSX Q648, a rerouted normality (so to speak) from Waycross, GA, detoured via the I-95 corridor, Metropolitan and Cumberland for the last 3 months of 2013 before mysteriously disappearing once more. Pretty cool train I might add, usually foreign power mixed with foreign freight; something not seen too often around here.
As a light November snow falls, a rare daylight move of CSX Q370, a Philadelphia bound freight out of Cumberland, runs two track to four track with a great lash-up of locomotives onto the Old Main Line.
Clearing the interlocking of East Rocks, CSX Q217 proceeds west on one.
CSX Q373 rounds the curve at Point of Rocks on three track under the EAS Satterwhite as it continues west to Cumberland.
CSXT 4589, the Spirit of Nashville, heads up an eastbound coal drag through Point of Rocks en route to Baltimore.
One of the few remaining YN2 SD70MACs sits idling on track four in Brunswick.
Slowing for a crew change, CSX Q647 glides past an idling coal train.