Q276-26 with a pair of NS motors crosses the Patapsco River on the Curtis Bay Branch.

Bayview local HB48 drops cars for the Canton Railroad at 5th Avenue Yard.

Detail of MPA Tool Car X11, photographed (with permission) while it was privately owned and stored on private property in East Baltimore in 1984. Ultimately, it was moved to the Ma & Pa mainline a... (more)

A decade ago these red nosed wide cab GP40s were common power on MARC trains.

Q403-29 passes Under Armour and Domino Sugar as it rounds the loop at Locust Point Yard.

Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad GE 70-Tonner yard switcher No. 50, "American Freedom Train" 4-8-4 No. 1 (former Reading Railroad No. 2101) manufactured by Baldwin Locomotive Works and C... (more)

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 4-6-2 Pacific No. 5300 "President Washington" (built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in February 1927) and Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 4-6-4 Streamlined Hudson No. ... (more)

Y131 brings Q031's Baltimore pickup up the hill from the Seagirt Marine Terminal to Bayview, as it crosses over O'Donnell St on the Sparrows Point Industrial Track.

Bug Slug

Countless Alco switchers were rebuilt with Caterpillar or Cummins engines, and sold to small mine operations throughout Appalachia. Most had their cabs removed or sealed s... (more)

Arriving at Locust Point Yard, Q403-13 rounds the loop as it proceeds through the old coal yard. In the background are USNS Antares, and USNS Denebola both of which are ready reserve Navy ships d... (more)

Having pulled empties from Lehigh Cement, the Canton crew is about to cross S. Clinton St, as they make their way back to the coal yard.

A Canton crew pulls empties from the Lehigh Cement pier.

A Canton crew waits for a forklift to move a steel plate off the tracks, so they can pull empties from the Lehigh Cement pier.

Having just entered the Locust Point Branch at HB, R389-04 is east on track 1, as it rounds the bend just west of Leadenhall St, on it's way to Locust Point Yard. On track 2 sits X388-04, who's he... (more)

“Jesus Saves”
With the rowhouses of South Baltimore in the background, CHGN (Chicagoan), lovingly referred to as the “Locust Point Flyer”, with a seven unit lashup (consisting of... (more)