Railyard Remnant: (Satellite)
Old Roundhouse: (Satellite, it is now part of a baseball field)
New Roundhouse: (Satellite) The classification tracks of Knobmount Yard was further up the river.
This depot is now the origination for Western Maryland Scenic trains. They go through the Brush Tunnel and turn around in Frostburg, MD.
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| Street View, Oct 2015 |
They had to do some serious channelization of the river. Note the static display of the caboose on the left side.
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| Street View, Oct 2015 |
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| Scott Sterowski posted Jim Kelling shared Cumberland Maryland (Western Maryland station 1913) |
Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment:
Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Historic view of Cumberland, Maryland's Western Maryland Railway Station, from National Archives collection, compared to a scene on our 2017 hike.The station can be reached by way of a very short walk from the Great Allegheny Passage's southern terminus. The trail shifts just west of the station and the C&O Canal (Chesepeake and Ohio) continues.Excursion trains still use the route today. Cumberland is a wonderful little town with all sorts of amenities as well as historic sites like this one.
Metrotrails shared
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This is the post that motivated this research since it has a contemporary date and means the depot is extant.
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| Bryan Burton Photography posted Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Depot in Cumberland, MD. 2/23 |
In 1901, the roundhouse was near the current WM Scenic Railyard. And the railroad was the West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Railroad.
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| 1901 Frostburg Quad @ 62,500 |
The Ridgeley Yard is now used by the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.
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By 1951 they had built bigger railyards up the river.
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| 1951 Frostburg Quad @ 62,500 |
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| Tim Wilson posted via Smoking Diesel Locomotives Doing their best steam engine impression.... ex. VIA FPA4 #6780 and it's sister smoke it up pulling into Cumberland, MD. To explain why #6780 is wearing one of it's sister's numberboard, well somewhere in the mix it lost it's original numberboards and all we had were the boards from #6771 not being used. So It's real easy to pin this trip down. November 9, 1991... first trip for #6780 over the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Afterwards it would be repainted as B&O #800. |
RE Pearce posted six photos with the comment: "Cumberland station is an Amtrak train station in Cumberland, Maryland, United States. The station has one side platform serving the two tracks of the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision. It is served by the daily Floridian. The current waiting shelter for Amtrak service in Cumberland sits on the original site of the B&O Queen City Station. The larger station nearby was constructed by the Western Maryland."
Thomas Dunne shared
Kevin Davis: So sad that the beautiful Queen City Station hotel had to be replaced by this tiny phone booth of an Amtrak station, where the Floridian (formerly the Capital Limited) makes a touch-and-go stop each way daily. Blink and you’ll miss it.
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