WM 734 Blast Westbound around Helmsetters Curve in Cumberland Maryland on it's way to Frostburg Md

Q317 snakes it's way out of Cumberland over Viaduct Junction starting it's trek on the Mountain Sub

As the sun sets over the Cumberland, MD area, Western Maryland 2-8-0 #734 pulls a freight train around the famous Helmstetter's Curve. Part of a Carl Franz photo charter.

Western Maryland 2-8-0 #734 darts through an opening in the foliage as it finishes up it's turn through Helmstetter's Curve on a beautiful fall day. Taken at a Carl Franz photo charter.

WM 734 enters Brush Tunnel.

WMSR 734 eases the weekly Saturday train into the station.

A large train on the WMSR makes his way up towards Frostburg with 2 GP30 helpers.

A neat three car special charter catches the sun playing peekabo with the clouds in this late day run. The train will pull the hill until it gets to my location above the hollow, in about seven mi... (more)

Western Maryland 734 pulling the grade at Helmsteaders Curve on an early Fall day.

Leading the day's excursion upgrade around the beautiful curve.

A pair of six axle motors get ready to lift Alpha-Jet WAJ-1 out of the Queen City and over the mountain to Connellsville on a fine summer night. In 1975 all would have went well with this plan, bu... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 734 performs a run by on a Carl Franz photo special

What could mostly pass for in the Wild Mary days is actually a look from inside the cab of GCK 7436 as she and her sister GCK 7471 get ready to make a trip up the hill on home rails. These engines... (more)

Cumberland, MD 7/9/12 - Former Western Maryland SD-40 7471 is once again on home rails, running along what was once WM's Connellsville Subdivision. Having hauled Alpha-Jet trailer trains and coal ... (more)