Cherry Run, WV: B&O Miller (R) Tower

(Satellite)

Darren Reynolds posted five photos with the comment:

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroads 

"R" tower (Miller)

Near Cheery Run, West Virginia

1

"Miller" tower as the Railroad Called it.. Was on the Banks of the potomac river near Cherry Run...

"Miller " tower now sets at the Martinsburg roundhouse grounds With the Armstrong leavers On the 2nd floor

Ready to show people how it all worked!!

Photo by: Dan Killinger

2

A Western Maryland F-7s #231 is stoped at "Miller" tower as the operator's on the ground talking to the eng crew...

Photo & Date: Unknown

[Some signalling pipelines went back towards Cherry Run.

B&O and WM must have shared their tracks in the limited space between the mountain and the river because this WM train is on the B&O track.]

3

A eastbound screams past "Miller" tower

Photo by: Eric Powell

4

A Westbound passing "Miller" tower on June 1996

Note the pipeline..

Photo by T.K. Kraemer

[But even more signalling pipelines went away from Cherry Run.]

5

A B&O Eng is eastbound at "Miller" tower Oct.14, 1980

Photo by: Robert Staples

The photos show that the tower is in a wilderness and that there is very little room between the tower and the mountain. This is true all along the RoW west of the town.

1951/53 Cherry Run Quad @ 24,000

Looking on an aerial photo, there was just one "spot" along that narrow RoW, and it is in the upper-left corner of this excerpt at the north end of town.

Apr 6, 1947 @ 25,400; AR1DS0000040060