Yesterday, My two sons and I headed due north up to my favorite hobby shop:
Mainline Hobby
It's a long drive but always worth it. As usual, we do some railfanning along the way. The Maryland Midland interchanges in the area of the hobby shop which is located in Blue Ridge Summit, PA. The name is where I got my name for my HO empire. I've been coming up here for 15 years and one of the first time I did, I stumbled upon the Maryland Midland. The paint has changed recently but they represented what I wanted in a railroad. I railfanned them alot over the years and knew the line like the palm of my hand. We lucked out as we found them in Thurmont, MD as we were heading up. The chase was on once I saw this lashup!:
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| FIVE Emds on the head end? Must have a big train. Turns out that it had 54 loaded cement cars and 2 boxcars for the run up the Catoctin Mountains. |
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| 2006 lashup |
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| 2016 lashup |
Shannon
ReplyDeleteEvery time I makk the Mainline trip I use 550 and spend some time in and around Sabillasville. Even almost named my railroad after that town. There used to be a track side shack in Sabillasville that I photographed, measured and then scartchbuilt built (three times) for various storage for the CVL.
Nice video. Those looked like SD45s in the consist. It's always a treat when you can catch a train on the way to Mainline Hobbies.
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