Trains: The Chase Continues

Okay. It's late. I haven't much to say that's of any value, or even the least bit interesting. Here be some more photographs of trains, taken between 1991 and 1996 on The Met. Above - Ex-Reading Lines GP39-2 - now CSX #4317 - leads empty auto-racks west through Germantown's MARC station in 1993.

Idling power at the head end of Q401 waiting for the call from the dispatcher - Brunswick, MD - 1996.

Sure, I could have cropped out the "S" curves in the foreground, but why? That's the best part of this 1991 shot of eastbound Q216 east of Germantown, MD.

The roundhouse to the right is long gone, but the turntable on which we find CSX #6103 is still in use today. Brunswick, MD - 1994.

EB "pigs" emerging from the old B&O tunnel at Monument Street, Baltimore - 1994.

Eastbound CSX freight crossing the Thomas Viaduct, one of the oldest bridges of any kind in the US - and still solid as a rock - between Relay and Elkridge, MD - 1992.

By 1995, the "Back Shops" area at Cumberland Locomotive Facility was littered with old GP30s awaiting delivery to regional/short-line railroads, museums and . . . . . . scrap yards. This is #4210, wearing rust (and maybe fire damage - upper right) like badges of honor, in the summer of 1995 at Cumberland, MD.

One of my favorite shots of the MARC F-units in action. This is #82 as it scampers past Randolph Road near Rockville, MD in 1991. I was born out of time...

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