24-12-01 PHOTOS: Severn

While I can typically do other things on Black Wednesday to overcome Amtrak's lack of a Thanksgiving program, Black Sunday is a little different as I only have limited time and space in which to act. In the past this was sufficient to catch the NJT Arrow III sets running in Maryland, but without them it takes a bit more effort to string together an interesting set of photos. In November of 2024 the best I could manage was a stop by the MARC Halethorpe station and the location of the old grade crossing and station in Severn, MD.

The first part of this set actually takes place on Saturday where we see a northbound weekend MARC Penn Line train, shown here taking the diverging route at WINANS interlocking with SC44 #83 in the head. Before Halethorpe was given high level platforms, Most MARC trains would platform across Track A using duckboards, but now they have to takes a time hit for a diverging movement.

Upon departure the outbound train met its opposite just north of the Halethorpe station. Cab car #8051 was on the end of the northbound with K-cab-car #7854 was leading the southbound and MP36PH-3C #30 on the rear.

I did manage to catch some Amtrak action with southbound Amtrak Regional Train #147 with ACS-86 #656 meeting northbound Regional Train #168 with ACS-86 #649. Both trains were traveling around 100mph.