@trumptrain posted:Thanks so much Mark! Growing up close to the B&O and having a certain fondness for that road is something you and I both have in common.
My inspiration for the photo: The B&O's Patuxent Branch ended at my hometown of Savage, Md. A way freight served the branch every other week day morning delivering covered hoppers of cement, boxcars, the occasional flat or gon, and open hoppers with coal. Often when I'd hear the locomotive's horn, I'd quickly mount my bike and off I'd go to the railroad tracks.... sometimes solo and at other times with a friend or two. One time I even got a cab ride in a GP7. I got to blow the horn at the Rt 1 grade crossing too! A BIG deal for an 11 year old kid who loved trains since he was two year old.
Patrick, That was a great experience. Ours were slowly going uphill or a little faster downhill.
