Hoping to catch regular operations while the original fleet was still intact, I headed to the Maryland Midland in January to chase the train from Union Bridge to Highfield and had a some- what difficult day; the normally three- unit assault on the grade to Highfield was handled by a lone locomotive pulling three cars. To add insult to injury, the weather was not very cooperative. With a nice sunny day in the forecast
for February 11, 2014, I met up with my brother in Maryland again, this time to chase the train from Union Bridge to Emory Grove (a normally Tuesday and Thursday run with the appropriate train symbol of UBEG). The first move this day, though, was to send a train the opposite direction from Emory Grove out of Union Bridge, heading to Keymar where the MMID east-west ex-WM main line crosses its
north-south ex-PRR branch. At Key- mar the train headed north to Taney- town to do some switching. Leading the train was GP38-3 No. 2063, making its very first run in the paint for its new operator, Central Oregon & Pacific; on- ly days before this locomotive had worn blue and orange as MMID No. 303. The switching took a long time in Taneytown, and more was done near Keymar. We didn’t think the railroad
OPPOSITE: Central Oregon & Pacific No. 2063 passes the former Western Maryland depot in Union Bridge, Md., on February 11, 2014, on its maiden run in new paint. This GP38-3 was former Maryland Midland No. 303.
LEFT: The last two blue-and-orange lo-
comotives on the MMID roster, Nos. 304 and 300, work through a bucolic setting near New Windsor, Md. BELOW: A few minutes earlier the train was just east of New Windsor. Most of
the cars from the CSX interchange at
Emory Grove are empty covered hoppers for the busy Lehigh Portland cement plant at Union Bridge.
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