Baltimore and Ohio

This page will begin at the junction town of Point of Rocks, MD and continue west to Harpers Ferry, WV.

At Point of Rocks the Old Main direct from Baltimore joins the Metropolitan Sub that comes up from Washington.

    This very short local is heading east up the Old Main

      GP40 4033 leads a loaded coal train onto the Old Main.  A genuine blue B&O caboose brings
up the rear as trains used to be.  August 29, 1976.

  Chesapeake and Ohio SD40 7503 leads an eastbound heading toward Washington. 10-22-1980.

  GP30 6901 brings another hopper turn east at Point of Rocks.

    Relatively new SD40-2 7606 leads three GP40's east for the Metro Sub on October 31, 1981.

  Amtrak F40 278 brings the Washington to Chicago Capitol Limited west.  At this time this train was combined with the Broadway
Limited at Pittsburgh. 

  At the very last light of day is this turn with a GP38 leading a former Western Maryland GP9.

  A short distance up from the junction is this short tunnel.  The westbound main uses this while the eastbound main is
just out sight to the left. 

Brunswick, Maryland has always been a railroad town.  Even the local high school team is called the Brunswick Railroaders.

    The units off train number 97 have cut off from their train and are making a pick up.  To the right is "WB" tower.

    Another train does the same and passes the old railroad YMCA building.  8-29-1976.

  GP9 5602 moves through the "WB" interlocking and passes the westbound station.

  Another GP9 6513 moves some coal hoppers.  Take notice of the 1970's era automobiles. 8-29-1976.

        Some shots of engines at the roundhouse.

  This very old six-wheel truck Pullman car was there on August 29, 1976.  Whereabouts today??

    Budd RDC cars were used on the commuter trains to Washington.  Laying over the weekend here.
August 29, 1976   October 13, 1980

  Another old classic, this one is assigned to a wreck train which will be seen below.

  A C&O U23B with two GP40's on October 31, 1981.  The B&O did not own any GE's.

  Another C &O Geep sits over the turntable.    Yet another C & O GP40.

    SD35 7418 slowly brings this eastbound to a stop for a crew change by the eastbound station building.
A public access road that led to this station allowed me to walk through the terminal area without any problems. 10-8-1978.

  GP40 4035 leads an eastbound at Weaverton.  The branch to Hagerstown split off here.

    B&O power at the Western Maryland's Hagerstown engine house on 9-15-1974.

The Harpers Ferry, West Virginia area.

    A westbound roars out of the tunnel and crosses the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry.  The tunnel is on the
Maryland side.  This is the first of numerous river crossings between here and Cumberland, Maryland.

    GP30 6943 and a rather elderly F7 still in its blue and gray colors roll west.

      Here is the ultimate B&O sequence.  A blue GP40 lead train passing through a very
historic town with a gen-U-wine wooden caboose bringing up the rear.  Priceless !!

  3690 again, now heading west with some loaded auto racks.  No covers on those babies yet.  

  Amtrak E8A 213 leads train number 703 on its way to Cumberland.  It was formerly RF&P 1001.
All the above taken 9-15-1974.

Disclaimer:  The images above were taken some 35 years ago when I was young and had not a care in the world.  Obviously I was standing
out on an active railway bridge and should have thought better of it.  Please, do not do this today!!!!!

      Train 704 stops at the Harpers Ferry station on its way to Washington, D.C. This E8 was
also a former RF&P unit.  June 1975.

    From two old 1960's original slides I purchased some time ago.  Photographer unknown.

    A trio of Geeps comes east off the branch and over the river enroute to Brunswick. 4-29-1979.

  Renumbered WM SD40 7546 and a GP9 head west.      A pair of SD-40-2's are on pusher
duty this day.  Although the B&O, the C&O and the Western Maryland were merged into the Chessie System, they did remain separate companies for many years.  With the abandonment of the Western Maryland main out to Cumberland, this train may indeed be a WM
train routed via the B&O.

  A little while later the pusher set drifts back to Brunswick.  October 22, 1980.

  As if the wooden caboose weren't enough, here is another gem.  A steam fired crane, tender and all, with some of those old
six-wheel truck heavy-weight passenger cars head west.  This was a wreck train headed to a derailment site somewhere west.  10-22-1980.

  In the late afternoon an eastbound behind GP40 4230 and a GP9 cross the river.  

  About one year later, F40 273 brings the Capitol Limited, train 440 east.  At the time it was combined with the Broadway
Limited in Pittsburgh.  October 31, 1981.

  A very short distance west of the station finds a former WM chop-nosed GP7 bringing a local east on 10-31-1981.

Continuing on to Martinsburg, WV very soon..........

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