Western Maryland 2-8-0 #729 leads a freight train around Helmstetter's Cuve as the sun is setting behind the engine. A plume of smoke and the engine is silhouetted by the remaining light of day.

CSX coal drag U848 departs the Cumberland Terminal with two GE units on the point. Amazingly to those of us from the south, only these two units will pull the loads eastward with no problems.

A Western Maryland Consolidation takes water in Cumberland, Md., before attacking the mountains to the west. This is actually a charter photo op from Lerro Productions on the Western Maryland Scen... (more)

Three steam engines line up next to each other - Western Maryland 2-8-0 #734, Flagg Coal 0-4-0 #75 and Viscose Company 0-4-0 #6 - at the Western Maryland Scenic Railway's 25th anniversary celebrat... (more)

Cumberland, MD 5/24/2014 - The varied hues of sodium vapor lamps from street lights and signs cast a wash of different colors on the Wills Creek spillway as the eastbouund Q-394 waits its turn to ... (more)

734 pulls into WMSR's Cumberland Station for the first run of the season! She's sporting newly rebuilt running gear, springs and tires..ready for a long season's work.

At this end of the Cumberland Freight Yards, is the caller's office, and this manifest with what looks to be a nearly new "ACE" in the lead. is waiting for a new crew.

Lite power sits next to the Amtrak Capitol Limited. Photo taken at super telephoto length; not trespassing or in harm's way.

Class leader and still hanging onto an older color scheme on the point.

WM 7595 sits at Chessie System's Cumberland Shops along with BO 4041, a GP40. The unit is in need of work, and in the fall of 1981 the economy was such that it was likely to sit here for awhile. M... (more)

The former B&O CPLs guard the east end of Cumberland Yard as a power set of Canadian Pacific and CSX engines change tracks. The CPLs are slated for replacement in the near future.

C&O 7562, a 1966 SD40 was captured in its original scheme while waiting for servicing at the Chessie System Locomotive Shops in Cumberland, MD. B&O GP40-2 No. 4117 was a September 1972 graduate of... (more)

Arriving after a run to Frostburg.

The Helper passes Viaduct Jct. Tower in Cumberland on a sunny summer evening in 1995.