112th Railway (Extract), Published 24 April 1946 Cross Town With Cross--- I suppose it wouldn't be your old Geography Teacher if he didn't ride a railway. I knocked off my 112th railway when I rode the Western Maryland behind No. 204 from Baltimore's Hillen Station up the line a mile or so. The W.M. goes along the north side of the Potomac river, and winds its picturesque way up to Hagersville, Maryland. Then it's mostly freight, with articulated super engines wheeling the long coal trains down from the West Virginia pits. The Western Maryland also operates a freight service up to historic Gettysburg, where the South was stopped and the Union won the war. My 4-6-2 engine took her string of varnish up country after I left her. Earlier I had visited the roundhouse and seen some of the Western Maryland's light power, but learned the big stuff was crosstown, where I hadn't time to go. --- |