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Winchester and Western's "Sandman" is climbs and is about to top the eastbound grade at Round Hill on its trek to Winchester from Gore is this foggy scene from 2016.

A visitor from the mid west leads CSX train Q015 back in 2018 as it enters Hagerstown, MD. The train had just begun its journey west from Chambersburg, PA to its terminus at Chicago, IL.

This was taken in the evening of January 5, 2013 at CP Shepherdstown on the Norfolk Southern H Line approximately 20 miles south of Hagerstown, MD. The train is sitting northbound in the controlled siding and had just got a diverging clear signal after a southbound train had just passed.

As part of the East Broad Top Railroad's 2022 Winter Spectacular, a night photo session was offered and a cold EBT #12 aka "Millie" was the star of the shoot. Here the locomotive and crew members pose by the sand tower inside the Rockhill Furnace shop and yard complex. Lighting was provided by Christopher Pollock, Steve Barry and Michael Burkhart. The smoke and steam effects were applied to the locomotive via smoke sticks. East Broad Top Railroad #12 was the first and smallest mikado locomotive (2-8-2) to enter the EBT's roster. Millie, as she was named in 1960 by owner Nick Kovalchick after his daughter, was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in 1911 and was capable of hauling 15 loaded hoppers from the coal mines.

Seen from "J" Tower is Norfolk and Western M Class 4-8-0 Locomotive 475 guiding a train full of families on the final "Night Before Christmas" train of 2018. Many thanks to the folks at the Strasburg Rail Road for their cooperation in getting this shot and Christopher Pollock for the inspiration.

My final shot of any of the PRR position light signals on the West Slope before they were retired and removed. NS 746 approaches the Jamestown Road bridge and the 257 signals just after 4am on June 7, 2019.

N&W J Class 611 is readying to stroll onto the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum on Saturday September 19, 2020.

Leading I136 through the Martinsburg Station and historic B&O Roundhouse Complex on February 21, 2022 is CSX ES44AC #3194. The engine, painted as the "Spirit of Law Enforcement" in 2019 is one of 3 units painted by CSX in their "Pride in Service" program (1776 for US Military, 911 for First Responders).

Conrail 243880 class X67 86 foot long boxcar was built in 1970 for the transportation of automobile parts between assembly plants. It was donated by CSX to the Conrail Historical Society in 2020 and was moved by truck to Shippensburg, PA in late 2021 where it was then repainted in its original color. The interior of the car will be transformed into a 10,467 cubic foot climate-controlled Conrail Museum & Archive that will be accessible to families and researchers alike. The boxcar was placed in February, 2022 near the Cumberland Valley Railroad Museum (CVRM), which is housed in a restored Penn Central boxcar at the Shippensburg trailhead of the Cumberland Valley Rail-Trail. www.thecrhs.org/243880

NEW FREEDOM, PA - The "William H. Simpson" York #17 is a faithful replica of a Civil War era 4-4-0 steam locomotive. In 1863, a locomotive of this type pulled President Abraham Lincoln's train from Baltimore along this line to Hanover Junction roughly 10 miles to the North where he transferred onto another train and head West to Gettysburg to deliver his now famous seven minute address commemorating the new cemetery where thousands from that summer's battle had perished. The locomotive is named in honored of Mr. Simpson who was a driving force behind the creation of Steam Into History, the company that runs the excursions between New Freedom and Hanover Junction. He died in May, 2012 not having seen his vision come to life. Lighting provided by Sean R. Hoyden

Western Maryland Railway 7471 sits idling and awaits for it's crew to board at Cumberland and take it and its train to Connellsville. Actually it was 2012 and the engine had recently been shipped "home" after repainted into its former WM glory for use on the George's Creek Railroad. On this night a few friends and I with permission from the railroad did a mini night shoot at the Cumberland station

Here is Q216 reaching the summit of the upper Shenandoah Valley at Hobbs on the CSX Cumberland Sub on March 28, 2012. The cab of 8575 seemed to have a full house inside as there looked to be three people sitting and if you notice a West Virginia State Trooper is passing going east on Route 9 and the exhaust from the locomotives spelling the air.

I had done this shot a handful of times and there is no denying how awesome it is as the signals sat at the east end of a long straightaway and the headlights of approaching trains or westward rear helpers absolutely does their magic. It's 2am and it's absolutely pouring down rain. I'm in my makeshift trash bag turned poncho while the camera is housed in a white shopping bag. Along comes a set of helpers on track 3 going west and wallah! The closeness of the track to some of the branches helps as they create shadows in the light the further the engines move away.

The Sun is setting fast as CSX Q136 blasts out of Graham Tunnel and back across the Potomac River at Magnolia, WV on August 30, 2019

Q372 with a single leader rushes by the Martinsburg, WV Station and Roundhouse Complex on Saturday, Sept 26, 2020. The platform on the east side of track one was just completed and this was a bucket list shot of mine when it was first announced a few years ago. Berkeley Hotel, the brick structure on the left dates to the railroad's arrival in 1842 & saw witness to the destruction of the the adjacent roundhouses by Stonewall Jackson in 1862. The B&O bought the building in 1866, expanded it, and used it as the station, eating house, telegraph office, and hotel. In 1877 the trainmen and enginemen here struck to protest wage cuts, starting the “Great Strike of 1877” nationwide. Railroad and military officials suppressed the strike here, using this building as headquarters.

White flakes are lightly falling as a loaded CSX coal train rolls past a couple rail enthusiasts and the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Roundhouse and Shop Complex in Martinsburg, WV on January 31, 2021.