World's Greatest Railroads!


B&O, Western Maryland Railway and Even More!


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These pages are on various free website services so please forgive the popups, banner,etc...there is no free lunch. Almost all content is original by Dave Cathell, I have tried to give credit to any material that is not mine. Let me know if anything is inaccurate, offensive or violates any copyright. All content is "unofficial", this website is not connected with any railroad or group. This website does not condone any trespassing or other violation of property rights. Safety should always be practiced. Comments should be directed to me using the email address below. Corrections welcomed and thanks for visiting!!


What's New


New Link- Bob's photos from Frostburg and surrounding area-1950s to recent--a native of Frostburg took photos when the WM was running up Big Savage!



Current Page Being Updated- The Cathell Family in West Virginia--the story of my family that is connected to railroading



recent page-- Railroads of Fulton County Pennsylvania-Wells Valley

recent page-- - Garrett County Logging Railroads

recent page-- - Preston Railroad

A Sample of Various Pages-Scroll Down for an Index


York, PA
Coal Loaders
Operating Towers
Railroutes-Narrative
Cumberland Valley RR
Cavetown to Highfield
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mt.
Baltimore & Hanover-Dutch Line
Spring Grove
Harrisburg area
Bowmansdale

Cumberland Power
Castleman River Railroad
Altenwald Cutoff

Featured Pages

B&O-Seventeen Mile Grade

More B&O

B&O-East End

Even More B&O!

WM-Shay 6

More Pages on Shay 6

WM-Bayard WV

More WM Pages


Even More WM!

Faded Speedlettering

Logging & Coal

Maps

Links







Western Maryland Railway Index- Alphabetical Order- Use "Back" to Return to this Page
Note-these pages have "evolved" since 1997 and interconnected with various directories and linked to other railroad pages. Sorry if you get lost!

Altenwald 2 Altenwald 3 WM @B&O Museum Bachman Valley
Balt. & Hanover Barnum Bayard Big Savage
Big Savage Grade Big Savage Wreck Blackwater Grade Blackwater Grade 2
Blue Ridge Summit Bowmansdale Brush Tunnel Brush Tunnel 2
C&P Bridge Camp Hill Camp Hill 2 Cass
CFCU Calendar Cumb Extention Cumb Narrows Cumb Viaduct
Cumberland Cumberland 97 Cumberland Station Davis, Henry G.
Deal Faded Speedletter Faded Speedletter 2 Frostburg
GC Junction Gettysburg Hagerstown Hagerstown
Hagerstown Hanover Harrisburg Helmstetters
Hotels Knobley Wreck K'stone Viaduct Lap
Lincoln Yard Links Lurgan M&H
Meyersdale Misc Mt. Savage Narrows
No 9 Parkersburg Br Pen Mar Porters
Ridgeley Shay 6 Shay 6 3 Spring Grove
Westernport WM 4618 WM 1997 WM Dir-PA
WM Dir-Bridges WM Dir Log~Coal WM Dir West WM Dir Maps
Wingerton WM West WMSRR 734 Woodcock
WVC Jct York York 2 Union Bridge


B&O Index- Alphabetical Order- Use "Back" to Return to this Page

88 Bridge C&O 1503 Cranberry Cumb. Narrows
Cumb Shops Cumb Shops Cumb Shops Cumb shops
Cumb Shops Cumb Shops Cumb Shops Cumb Shops
Cumb Shops Cumb Shops Cumb Viaduct Cumb Yards
Deer Park Directory 1 Directory 2 East End
East End Falls Cut FURX Garrett PA
Hancock Hancock Hancock Hancock
Hancock Hancock Hancock Hyndman
Keyser Mance Martinsburg Meyerdale
Misc Oakland Piedmont Queen City
Railroutes 1 Railroutes 2 Railroutes 3 Railroute 4
Railroutes 5 Railroutes Map Rail Map 2 Sand Patch
17 Mile Grade Somerset WM 4618 Worlds Greatest


Cumberland Valley RR Index- Alphabetical Order- Use "Back" to Return to this Page

Carlisle Chambersburg CVRR Introduction Hagerstown
Harrisburg Lemoyne Maugansville Mechanicsburg
Shippensburg Shippensburg South Mountain South Mountain
South Mountain South Mountain Cumb Viaduct South Penn


Garrett Co. Logging Coal RR Index- Alphabetical Order- Use "Back" to Return to this Page

Castleman River RR Coal Loaders Garrett Coal Jennings Bros RR
Jennings Logging Preston RR Yough-Kendall


Other RR Index- Alphabetical Order- Use "Back" to Return to this Page

H&BTM Columbia & Reading East Broad Top Enola
Gettysburg-Pioneer Lines RBM&N Rockville Shade Gap
Strasburg Rowlesburg & Southern Union RR WL&E


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Baltimore & Ohio


Four helper units assisting five lead units take a mixed freight up Cranberry
Grade between Rowlesburg and Terra Alta, WV. Maximum grade 2.4%

Western Maryland Railway

Helmstetter Curve on the Western Maryland Railway between Cumberland and Frostburg