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The Lander Lockhouse and lock 29 of the C&O Canal National Historic Park. The painted white brick house was built in 1836. The towpath on the right is popular for hiking, jogging and biking. It's at the 51 mile mark of the towpath which is 185 miles long from Cumberland MD to Washington D.C. Many bicyclist make this two to three day trip. Usually from the direction of Cumberland because it's predominantly downhill. #NPS #C&OCanalNationalHistoricPark #Lock29 #LandersLockhouse #Chesapeake&OhioCanalNationalHistoricPark #lockhouse
A stretch on CSX railroad track at mile marker 69 at Point of Rocks, Maryland. #tracks #RailroadTracks #CSX #PointOfRocks #MileMarker69
CSX tracks at Point of Rocks, Maryland and the MARC Station. The MARC is a commuter rail which shares the tracks with CSX. #CSX #MARC #railroad #RailroadCrossing #TrainStation #tracks
The Point of Rocks Tunnel, Maryland built in 1902. These are CSX tracks heading towards Harpers Ferry. This is beside the C&O Canal National Historic Park. This narrow stretch thru the Catoctin Range of the Appalachian Mountains became a land battle between the B&O Railroad and the C&O Canal. This was about the time of the Civil War. It was later ruled that they would share the right of way thru the Catoctin Range. #CSX #PointOfRocks #railroad #tunnel #RailroadTunnel #1902
CSX locomotive #900 pulling empty coal cars into the mountains at Point of Rocks, Maryland. I took this from the towpath in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park. The tracks run parallel to the canal. Trains became the preferred transportation and the canal project was halted. This track was part of the B&O Railroad (Baltimore & Ohio). This train was remarkably quiet. I had less 10 seconds between hearing it and getting the camera ready to shoot. Fortunately I had the camera out to take river pics when I heard the train. #CSX #PointOfRocks #train #locomotive #Maryland #C&OCanalNationalHistoricPark #towpath
The Palisades just west of Red Lodge, Montana are made up of overturned limestones along the thrust fault that runs alog the east side of the Beartooth Uplift. The photo was taken right after a rainstorm.
A westbound CSX manifest rolls off the Old Main Line Subdivision and onto the Metropolitan Subdivision at Point of Rocks, MD on Oct. 11, 1989, led by SD40-2 No. 8408, adorned in their short lived (thankfully) "stealth" paint scheme.
Light trails over the Point of Rocks bridge.
There are no streetlights in this bridge.
Early morning traffic lights the Point of Rocks bridge.
Maryland and Virginia
A historic passenger rail station was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873. The station is used as one of the Maryland Rail Commuter Service, called MARC.
This CSX freight passes the Point of Rocks station in the morning fog.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm f/4 @ f/8
View from the Point of Rock on the C&O Canal in Maryland. This bridge connects Maryland and Virginia for the Route 15.
This is the view from Point of Rocks Overlook in Maryland a few weeks ago. From Maryland, I was looking across the Potomac River towards Virginia's Furnace Mountain. I've seen a few other people post photos from this spot, so I decided several years ago that fall would be the best time to check it out. It finally worked out this year.
...between Cheyenne and Ogden.
Union Pacific #4007, #4791 and #5365 lead an intermodal westbound thru Wyoming.
Westbound CSX manifest Q343 passes the former B&O station at Point of Rocks, MD on June 17, 2001, led by SD50 No. 8580.
MARC Train P879 from Washington D.C. arrives Point of Rocks, Maryland in the aftermath of a nasty afternoon thunderstorm. This service is part of the Brunswick Line which parallels the Potomac River westward out of Washington towards West Virginia.
Point of Rocks is where the former Baltimore and Ohio splits towards Baltimore on the Old Main Line (foreground) and towards Washington on the Metropolitan Branch (right). The original B&O charter reached Point of Rocks from Baltimore in 1832 making the Old Main Line one of the oldest continuously used rail lines in the nation. Located in between the Old Main Line and the Metropolitan Branch is the ornate Victorian B&O depot built in 1873 when the Metropolitan Branch first opened. Almost all of B&O's passenger services took the Metropolitan Branch to reach Washington which continues to facilitate MARC trains and Amtrak's Capitol Limited.
Black Form of the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinenis). Point of Rocks, Potomac River, Federick County, Maryland.
MARC F9PH 81 (ex-MDOT F9PH 7185 ex B&O 4557 ex B&O 4590 nee B&O F7A 947) makes an afternoon station stop at Point of Rocks, MD at the classic E. Francis Baldwin designed station on the Metropolitan Subdivision on July 11, 1991.
Point of Rocks is a historic passenger rail station located at ...
Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.
The station was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873, and designed by E. Francis Baldwin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_Rocks_station
Scanned Color Slide, Circa May 1989
I return to this beautiful tunnel again and again. I was there with my boys this past weekend and there were no icicles, but it's been pretty cold the last week, so the rocky sides of the entire mountain are draped with these lovely tall icicles.
An eastbound freight is lined 1-1 at Point of Rocks on June 4, 2001. The junction here was in the midst of a transformation which would allow MARC service to be extended to Frederick MD via a new east leg of the wye. The much loved B&O CPLs would be replaced entirely by new SafeTrans "traffic light" signals in the process. The changeover happened in September of 2001. In this slide, the Metropolitan Subdivision curves to the right towards Washington DC while the Old Main Line Subdivision curves off to the left. The new East Leg of the wye is not visible in this photograph but runs from left to right behind the venerable and historic Point of Rocks station just ahead here.
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The morning fog is thick as this EB MARC train arrives at Point of Rocks station.
Nikon D610 & Nikkor 24-120mm f/4
MARC F9PHA No. 82 brings train 279 into the classic Baltimore & Ohio station at Point of Rocks, Maryland on Aug. 16, 1991. For a view of this unit later in life go to: www.flickr.com/photos/2719/11700431344.