Silver Meteor

The Silver Meteor is one of my oldest and fondest train memories. Dad regularly fired on the run from Savannah to Jacksonville. When was around 11 dad snuck me into the cab and we made the run to Jacksonville and back. High adventure for a young boy.

Mostem

Mostem is the Czech word for "bridge".
We found this little nightclub located underneath one of the arches of the Charles Bridge in Prague

Highfield

In this winter scene a Western Maryland F3 idles on the tracks at Highfield Station.

Chessie

"Chessie" is a EMD GP40 that is now located at the B&O Train Museum in Baltimore, MD.

Family Lines

The Family Lines System EMD switcher 1165 is similar to the one dad engineered during his last years with CSX.

B and O

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. 6405 is EMD GP9 diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the United States between 1954 and 1963. The newly restored locomotive is parked outside the B & O shops at the B & O Museum

Gettysburg

Located at the western terminus of the Gettysburg Railroad Company, the station is notable for being the site of Abraham Lincoln's arrival to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863, one day before delivering the Gettysburg Address. The station was built in the Italianate style, with arched windows, low-pitched roofs with eaves and decorative brackets that was popular in that day.

Piante e Fiori

Piante e Fiori

(Plants and Flowers)

While on vacation in Rome we came upon this street corner flower shop. After I took the picture I bought a flower for Beth

Morris Island

Morris Island

Morris Island Light is a lighthouse that stands on the southern side of the entrance to Charleston Harbor, north of the town of Folly Beach. The lighthouse now stands several hundred feet offshore. When constructed in 1876 the light was approximately 1,200 from the water's edge. However, the jetties which protect the Charleston Harbor altered ocean currents, resulting in the erosion of Morris Island.

Western Maryland

Western Maryland

This Western Maryland Railway EMD F3 was setting on a B&O Museum siding just after restoration. The F3 was a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW), B-B freight-hauling diesel locomotive that was produced between July 1945 and February 1949 by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division.

1309

1309

The massive locomotive 1309 sits in the parking lot of the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD. 1309 was the last Baldwin H-6 2-6-6-2 compounds built and delivered to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in September 1949. Primarily a coal mine run engine, working the curving and heavily graded branches in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Most H6s were scrapped, but 1309 was been preserved as an example of steam heritage.