B&O Depot: (Satellite)
The rest of these notes are about the GAP/WM depot.
Below are photos of the caboose when it was delivered in a Chessie livery. Obviously, it was repainted in its original C&O livery. In 2021, it was repainted as a Western Maryland caboose because this is a former WM depot and the tail uses the former WM route.
GAP = Great Allegheny Passage
B&O:
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| Street View, Sep 2019 |
The rest of these notes are about the GAP/WM depot.
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| Street View |
Below are photos of the caboose when it was delivered in a Chessie livery. Obviously, it was repainted in its original C&O livery. In 2021, it was repainted as a Western Maryland caboose because this is a former WM depot and the tail uses the former WM route.
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| Street View |
Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment:
In 2004, the display caboose was painted for the Chessie System.
Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Meyersdale, Pennsylvania historic image of the Western Maryland Railroad station, compared to the same scene on our 2021 hike.The Western Maryland was completed through Meyersdale in 1912, and remained independent until it was absorbed into the parallel competitor, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.The abandoned line became part of the Great Allegheny Passage in 2006.Today, the old station serves as a museum and stop off on the trail, which is also part of the 911memorialtrail.
M'ke Helbing shared
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| 2 Bryan Allyn Blas: It's so great to see the station still standing and so well preserved. It also shows how important it is to save history through preservation and reinterpretation. Someone, or a group of someones, truly cared to save this. It's too bad that it isn't happening often enough everywhere else. |
Note where the WM crossed the B&O and river northwest of town. The trail now goes over that Salisbury Viaduct.
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| Debbie Newsom Hampton posted This former Chessie System caboose was photographed on display at the Meyersdale Historical Society in Meyersdale, PA in 2004. Photo by George Neat. |
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| Meyersdale Area Historical Society posted Did you know? ... Cupolas were added to cabooses after the Civil War to serve as a lookout post atop the car! The next time you're at our restored Western Maryland Railway Station Visitors' Center and Museum, check out the new caboose sign, recently designed and installed by Lens Creek Studios. Eric Domboski shared, Feb 2021 Terry Hackney: In the spring, we plan to re-letter this caboose. I'll post photos of that project. |
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| Alex Lauphton commented on Terry's comment [This was part of a discussion of weather or not the caboose should be yet another red caboose.] |
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| Lens Creek Studios posted, May 2021 Maybe you were wondering why we washed the caboose. Here’s the reason! We love our little town, and we love sharing its history. The Meyersdale Area Historical Society wanted to pay homage to the Western Maryland Railway, so they asked us to letter their caboose. It’s located by the former station along the Great Allegheny Passage bicycle trail. Re-lettering former C&O Caboose #3235 beside the former Meyersdale, Pennsylvania Western Maryland Railway Station, along the Great Allegheny Passage bicycle trail. The local historical society wanted to pay homage to the Western Maryland. |
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| Meyersdale Area Historical Society, Jan 2022 We've reached the end of another week! Happy Friday, everyone! Debbie Newsom Hampton shared Located in Meyersdale, PA. Michael Rhodes: Apparently former C&O 3235 painted up as a WM cab. Glad she’s looking good. Dennis DeBruler shared I still can't imagine what it would have been like to climb up on the running board and set the brakes on a moving train in the snow. |
I'm surprised that the above street views show a grey color whereas this shows the C&O livery as blue.
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| T F, Sep 2017 |
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