well, not exactly THIS date, but... on Nov 1st 1862 track opened to Union Bridge ...and... 1905 Western Maryland acquired the West Virginia Central, which...
I am trying to find information about Western Maryland two light dwarf signals used in yards. Some years ago I saw a picture of a dwarf signal where a dark...
We at WesternMarylandSurvivors would like to wish all of our group members the best for a great Thanksgiving feast and a pleasant weekend full of family and...
Hello, I am moving the website from http://community.webshots.com/user/Lightning_Bolt_38 to http://lightning_bolt_38.rrpicturearchives.net If I continue to use...
I'm modeling the Elkins yard from an aerial photograph I shot in 1981 before the roundhouse burned. There was a nother fellow looking for dimensions of the...
Charlie, No, I didn't have any luck with this. From what I understand there is a layout of the track plan for the yard in the book "Western Maryland...
All, Matt, you are pretty close about the information on the Elkins yard. The last time I was there was two weeks ago and the lower floor and walls of the new...
Thanks Matt & Paul. I'll be going to ELkins in the next week or so. I'll take some pictures and post them. I'm taking my laser measuring tool and I'll measure...
Charlie, Take a trip to Belington. ... From: "Charlie Pyles" <airpixphoto@...> To: <WesternMarylandSurvivors@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 27,...
My father helped build the roundhouse when he was furloughed from the railroad but I do not know the dimmensions. If the foundations are still in place you...
the streets around the station really haven't changed all that much, really. The curb work is just extending out to define the parking area at the sides of...
Gents (and Ladies, if applicable): Hopefully, I will open up an Elkins and Hagerstown folder(s) at a public site within the newxt year. I have some color 35mm...
Question did the turntable that was in elkins end up in Cumberland for Western Maryland Senic Railroad? If memeroy re-calls CSX gave the TT to the folks in...
The turntable that is in Frostburg is from Elkins. The WMSR has another turntable stored on a flat car in Ridgeley, which they want to install in Ridgeley. I...
Well I'll be.....that is an interesting peice of info. I didn't think anything made it out of the yard before the scrappers got to it. By the way Gerald, ...
As was posted recently on the WM_Rwy group, the next battle lines are being drawn in Cumberland. The combatants are the WMSR, Allegany County, the City of...
...Dec 1, 1909 the Western Maryland Railway is formed and purchases the property of the Western Maryland Railroad under foreclosure proceedings of November...
If I am not mistaken, the turntable was moved from Elkins to Frostburg MD for WMSR use. I am sure that the WMSR could provide you the needed info. If not, ...
Hello everyone, Back in October I had posted about a WM insulated boxcar from the Trolleyville museum in Ohio. I finally got a hold of people there and it...
Thanks for sharing that with me and the group. Elkins is my home town EHS graduate in 1962. It's funny how the RR went through my yard out at Highland Park and...
I wish my bother was as hungry for information as I am. He worked for the WM till the end in the Elkins Yard, but he's really not a historian. He helps me when...
My sister was a teacher at Highland Park in the early seventies. My father and two of his brothers worked for WM out of Elkins. One of my uncles ran engines...
John, I have an old WM employee timetable somewhere (can't put my fingers on it right at the moment) that has D.H. Bohon stamped on it. Was this your father or...
That was my uncle Dave. He was an engineer. My other uncle was a hostler/fireman and my father a carman. All are deceased. John Bohon ... fingers on it ... ...
Charlie, The Bridge over the river at Elkins, as far as I know, went straight to the scrapper...the bridge across the Shavers Fork in Parsons has been there...
As vast as CSX is, and as small as the Western Maryland roster was, I find the following data from my recent posting of surviving GP40-2s fascinating; ...
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