PHOTO GALLERY

The Queen City Hotel, B&O's station in Cumberland. It's hard to believe that the station building is just a backdrop painting.

A local stops at Western Maryland's Cumberland Station.

Cumberland.

Photo by Mike Kotowski.

Viaduct Junction.

Photo by Mike Kotowski.

A B&O passenger train and Western Maryland coal drag head east through the narrows.

Helmstetter's Curve on the Western Maryland.

Helmstetter's Curve.

Helmstetter's Curve.

Number 7600 eastbound at McKenzie. You can see the unfinished Bragdon foam hill forms and rock castings behind the tower.

Photo by Mike Kotowski.

7600 crosses Paca street with Kelly-Springfield and Potomac Power in the background. There must be some trouble on the Patterson Creek Cutoff for this coal to travel through Cumberland!

Photo by Mike Kotowski. 

Further on the train cross the Greene Street underpass.

Photo by Mike Kotowski.

This time 7600 is bringing a string of empties westbound past Paca Street.

Photo by Mike Kotowski.

Extra 190 hauls a string of empty hoppers into Keyser.

The Cincinnatian in Keyser.

A pair of Mikes at Piedmont.

Photo by Scott Dunlap.

The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Mill at Luke.

Both the B&O and Western Maryland served the mill.

All photos by Sam Romerstein except as noted.