Roger Puta (1944-1990) was a legendary US railfan who took an extraordinary number of railfan shots from all over the USA. Unsurprisingly, this included iconic railroad routes and locations, including Sand Patch Grade. Roger photographed trains here during the summer of 1969, allowing us to see a snapshot of the history of this line, which was completed in mid 19th century. Today the route sees CSX action along with the occasional Amtrak service in the 'Capitol Limited'.

You can read more about Roger Puta here.

Though these images are in the public domain, courtesy of Mel Finzer, use is under the condition that they are correctly attributed to him and in each caption, we have linked to the source, which is Marty Bernard's Flickr account.

An Western Maryland F7A meets N&W SD45Rs on August 16, 1969 at Rockwood, PA. A Roger Puta Photograph.