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07-033: Helmstetter’s Curve Western Maryland Railway: Western Maryland Railway (1950) - One of the great railroad venues in the American east is Helmstetter’s Curve between Cumberland and Frostburg. Here a mixed freight train is rolling through the curve.
44-356: Pennsylvania Train Yard (1949) - Pennsylvania Train Yard in Baltimore looking east from the 29th Street bridge.
07-088: Western Maryland Railway Crossing Bridge (1950)
07-105: Lackawanna Railroad Bridge (1950) - Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct/Nicholson Bridge. This is “officially” NOT called the Lackawanna Railroad Bridge. Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct (also known as the Nicholson Bridge and the Tunkhannock Viaduct) is a concrete deck arch bridge that spans the Tunkhannock Creek in Nicholson, Pennsylvania which is in northeastern Pennsylvania near Scranton. Measuring 2,375 feet (724 m) long and towering 240 feet (73 m) when measured from the creek bed (300 feet (91 m) from bedrock), it was the largest concrete structure in the world when completed in 1915 and still merited "the title of largest concrete bridge in America, if not the world" 50 years later. Built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W), the bridge is owned today by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is used daily for regular through freight service, including those of the Norfolk Southern.
07-064: Engine 828: Western Maryland Railway (1950) - Western Maryland Railway. Engine 828 was a Class H-9 “Consolidation” type steam locomotive built in 1921 by The Baldwin Locomotive Works. It had a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement and was used to haul heavy mixed freight and coal loads or used to haul a unit train carrying all freight or all coal.
07-044: B&O Engine 4186 (1952) - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, chartered in 1827, was America’s first true railroad. Construction began in 1828, and in 1830 service began running to Ellicott City, 13 miles west of Baltimore. The daily way freight to which the Old main now belongs. The daily way freight less than car load stuff for small stations- chugs through Ellicott City like all freights on the Old Main Line, it is a special- there are no more regularly scheduled runs.Over the next 30 years, the B&O extended to Cincinnati and St Louis. After the Civil War, the Railroad ran lines to Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York.During the Civil War, the B&O remained under the control of Union forces and was an important carrier for the Union.In the 1960s the B&O became part of the Chessie System. In 1980, Chessie merged with the Seaboard Coast Line to form the CSX system.
52-601: Photo of Bodine (c.1950)
