A westbound WM freight passes MY Tower at Maryland Junction in Ridgeley, WV on Aug. 18, 1974 with F7A No. 235 and a RS-3.

Knobmount Yard, final resting place for many old Chessie cars.

Ridgeley, WV 5/26/2012 - Where Alpha-Jets Used to Trod: Under pouring rain, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad's GP-30 501 is returning from the wye track at Maryland Junction along what was onc... (more)

Ridgeley, WV 6/30/2008 - Restoring Western Maryland's GP-9 number 25 to its original paint scheme was a labor of love and meticulous processes by a group railfans and the shop crews of the Western... (more)

Ridgeley, WV 5/18/2008 - After years of weather had faded its Chessie System paint, Western Maryland GP-9 6400 was preparing to be backdated--taken back to her original black and gold Western Mary... (more)

Emerging from the home yard in Ridgely, WV on a spectacular October morning. It would stop at the road crossing in Ridgely for a brake test and final inspection before continuing on across the bor... (more)

Special thanks to Gerald Altizer for making this & his WM dream come true for railfans & the Georges Creek Railway

734 slowly pulls into Ridgely and eventually turns at the Wye before parking on the other side of the shops

WMSR 734 comes out of the shed charging for Cumberland Station.

Both of WMSR's GP30's sit elephant style in the yard in Ridgeley.

A shot of the very sooty fireman's side of the 734.

A tireless driver sits on the ground at the WMSR as 734 is serviced and readied for the days trip, heavy fog has lifted a bit but is still hanging in tight just a little higher in the mountains.

Western Maryland GP35 3577 (Class DS-28) represents an order for five of the second-generation geeps which were delivered in December 1963. They arrived in the then-current black paint scheme and ... (more)

Western Maryland locomotives were literally "lounging" all over the Maryland Junction Engine Facility on Memorial Day, 1975. F7A 241 represents the second order of F7s for the WM. Altogether, sixt... (more)

The 1975 Memorial Day holiday found me wandering around the Cumberland, Maryland area and searching for trains, but none were to found! I decided to cross the border and see what was happening ov... (more)