CSX's Metropolitan Sub - 8/3/2021

Hi, Last Tuesday friend Dale Diacont and I met up at the Washington Grove, MD MARC stop for an afternoon of railfanning and visiting. It had been 1 1/2 years since we were able to get together.

First up Was W751, the "Rock Runner." This train hauls aggregate from a quarry in Millville, WV to a plant in Bladensburg, MD. It operates as a turn returning the empties to the quarry. In the past the crew went on duty in Brunswick, MD, took the empties from the previous day to Millville, exchanged the empties for loads and took them to Bladensburg where they dropped the loads and picked up empties to bring back to Brunswick.

Amtrak #30, the eastbound Capital Limited, followed the "Rock Runner" about a 1/2 hour later running left handed.

 

After lunch we relocated to Point of Rocks, MD where we just missed westbound coal empties. However, after awhile the "Rock Runner" with empties showed up 

followed awhile later by the westbound Capital Limited, Amtrak #29.

Thanks for looking.