Canadian and U.S. Railroads


The 50th Anniversary Bash


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                   


            


       


          


             


THE CELEBRATION FOR THE 50THANNIVERSARY of Cass Scenic Railroad was a four-day affair that ran from May 16-19, 2013, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association. I headed down from New Jersey on the day before under clear blue skies. As much as I hate the drive down I-78 and I-81 from Easton, Penn., to Win- chester, Va., (the most boring drive I routine- ly do), I equally love the drive over the mountains on Route 55 from Strasburg, Va., to Moorefield, W.Va., and on down the valley through Petersburg and Seneca Rocks to


Cass — it’s probably my favorite drive of the spring. This year somewhere between Win- chester and Moorefield the temperature rose from the low 60s to the mid-90s in about an hour.


Once at Cass, I met up with my mates who would be staying at the restored compa- ny house, and Joe Gonzalez (who has been involved with the railfan weekends ever since I started attending in the early 1980s) fixed up a lasagna and meatballs dinner. The evening was spent enjoying time on the porch. The next day the celebration started actu-


The Cass Scenic Railroad railfan weekendactually started on the West Virginia Central on May 16 with a trip between Cheat Bridge and the High Falls of the Cheat. A small freight train powered by a B&O-inspired GP9 (above) paused at a pond east of Cheat Bridge, while a pair of F units in the Western Maryland livery powered a passenger train (below). The cabs traversed what is reportedly the sharpest main line curve in the U.S. at the High Falls on the former Western Maryland.


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