Railfanning, Sept 15-16, 2008

Saturday along the Magnolia Cut-off
Sept. 13, 2008
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	Emerging Eastbound from the fog is CSX 398 8:21am Doe Gully Signal

	Eastbound 333 approaching Randolph Tunnel 8:40am

One of the Western Maryland Railroad bridges over the old B&O right of way.

	Eastbound 10:02am Magnolia Signal

Westbound
10:15am
Magnolia Signal

	As this Westbound came past the Magnolia Signals we were hearing the roar of an Eastbound on the near track emerging from Stuart Tunnel behind us. The "meet" happened almost out of sight. 10:33am

Kessler Cemetery


11:27am -- I've never taken the time to shoot a train on "The Wall" and frankly, looking at the results, I probably won't go out of my way for that shot again!

	Few Remnants of the old Western Maryland Railroad remain. We had heard of a tower that had once stood at a place called Jerome and decided to try to find if anything was still there. After scouting a few locations, we decided to walk a section of the old right-of-way and just suddenly happened on it!

I've been around Magnolia many times over the years but have never ventured down to river-level for a shot. With the abandoned Western Maryland bridge behind me (I couldn't pass up that shot) I caught this Eastbound grain train.

1:17pm

1:26pm
Magnolia Signal

All day we'd heard of a "High-Wide" snarling traffic as it approached from the East. We set up at West End of Kessler Bridge waiting, but Westbound empty coal #721-12 snuck in ahead.

2:42pm