At approximately 1053AM on November 10, 2021 the eastbound Pennsylvanian arrives for its station stop at Huntingdon, PA on the former PRR mainline between Altoona and Harrisburg. Leading the way is the newly painted AMTK 108 which wears Amtrak’s Phase VI scheme in celebration of that company’s 50th year of operation.

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).

AMTK 92 leads an over two and a half hour late Capitol Limited into Martinsburg, West Virginia on mild Friday, March 11, 2022 as it passes the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Roundhouse and Shops. Notice the bicyclist taking a break watching the action on the left and Miller Tower in the background.

The CSX OCS symbol P001-25 photographed in Martinsburg, WV as it makes it’s journey from Chicago, IL to Waycross, GA with some VIPs on board on the evening of August 26, 2021. CSX painted the entire train (engines and cars) in 1950’s Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger era colors. You’ll even note the brass “Capitol Dome” on the front of CSX 1.

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.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

My daughters wave to the oncoming train. Here is Q138 with Kansas City Southern “Southern Belle” 4771 at the front passing by the station in Martinsburg.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH Norfolk Southern’s Virginian unit leads CSX intermodal train Q138 by the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Roundhouse complex and Amtrak station in Martinsburg, WV.

B&O STATION, POINT OF ROCKS: 1873 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, Point of Rocks, MD designed by E Francis Baldwin. The scene was captured in February 2013 and lit by painting the building with a spotlight for 13 seconds at 400 ISO and f5.0

HARPERS FERRY, WV – BALTIMORE & OHIO

HARPERS FERRY: CSX Q276 passes through Harpers Ferry, WV and by the 1894 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station designed by E. Francis Baldwin ON January 27, 2018. The building itself is owned by the National Park Service who restored it to it’s classic appearance in 2006. More recently, the passenger waiting shack on the right was rebuilt by the NPS in association with CSX within the past couple of years as it was slowly degrading and in danger of collapse.

86 passes south by the former Cumberland Valley Station in Martinsburg.

Rolling through downtown Martinsburg from Hagerstown, WW 86 passes the Cumberland Valley Railroad Station on King Street.

Part of the 2017 annual “Railfan Day” at Steam Into History. This year I was asked to help provide lighting for the event and had a mission to make it more realistic with active steam. Here York 17 looks as though it is enroute from York to Baltimore at the depot at Hanover Junction as locals look on.

ORBISONIA STATION

WELCOME TO THE EAST BROAD TOP RAILROAD

MORNING WEB

NEW FREEDOM, PA

FAYETTEVILLE, PA – CUMBERLAND VALLEY

Baltimore Streetcar Museum’s youngest car, 7407 was built by the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company in 1944 for the Baltimore Transit Company. It was one of the last streetcars ordered for Baltimore until the MTA bought the new light rail cars. Since this car was built during the Second World War, the stanchions are painted instead of chrome coated. This car represented the height of streetcar development in the world when it was built and has the same general performance characteristics as the modern light rail cars. This car was rebuilt in the early 1990’s and is painted in its original color scheme of cream, Alexandria blue, and orange. The original paint scheme of Baltimore’s PCC cars was the result of a student competition circa 1936 at the Baltimore Institute of Art.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV – NORFOLK & WESTERN

PURCELLVILLE, VA – WASHINGTON & OLD DOMINION

NEW OXFORD, PA – WESTERN MARYLAND

Returning to the yard in Union Bridge from Keymar is UBYS, the local yard switcher that was the only daylight move on the MMID this day. The short push/pull train is passing by the former Western Maryland Railway station which is now home to the Western Maryland Historical Society. The blue and orange will soon be replaced with the G&W black and orange and upgraded power of 4 SD-40′-2s but in SD45 car bodies.

York 17 and train stop to pick up passengers just as trains have done here in the past like the one Abraham Lincoln did and from Gettysburg. The crew makes adjustments before continuing south to New Freedom, PA and Baltimore, MD. Part of the venture’s second annual railfan day was this night charter with lighting provided by Steve Barry.

Built circa 1888 is this Shenandoah Valley Railroad station at Charles Town, WV which in 1915 was moved across the tracks onto a new foundation from a newly built N&W brick depot and is under private ownership.

NEW OXFORD, PA – WESTERN MARYLAND

MOUNT ROYAL STATION

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station built in 1893 still stands along the CSX/Winchester and Western mainline through downtown Winchester. Until 2013, the upper floor housed the headquarters of the W&W when it was moved to Inwood, WV.

H88.8 LURAY, VA – NORFOLK AND WESTERN

H88.8 LURAY, VA – AGENT’S OFFICE

H88.8 N&W STATION – LURAY, VA

1902 STATION: Housing the Western Maryland Railway Historical Society is this former WM Station in “downtown” Union Bridge. Across the street is the MMID home office and yard where railroad operations originate for their daily runs. This is UBEG switching cars into the yard from it’s trip east in preparation for its trip west to Keymar.

GETTYSBURG, PA – READING

H28.3 38Q passes by the former N&W station at Charles Town, WV in November 2012.

GETTYSBURG, PA – GETTYSBURG & HANOVER

H46.0 LADY IN WHITE: A northbound NS train disrupts the night approaching the Boyce, VA depot.

MOUNT UNION PRR STATION

LEWISTOWN, PA

H46.2 GHOST TRAIN: Travel back in time as a Norfolk and Western train slowly arrives to make a station stop at Boyce, VA. Fast forward to October 2012 and witness what seems like a ghost train arriving just in time for Halloween.