would have two crews on, and it looked like the train to Emory Grove might not be operating. Perhaps it was another tough day for us on the Midland. Final- ly done with its switching, the train swung off the ex-Pennsy and onto the Western Maryland at Keymar. The iconic shot in Union Bridge is of a train passing the former Western Maryland station and office building. The Western Maryland Historical Soci- ety now occupies the building with an extensive collection of artifacts, a li- brary and a museum. This was one of
several shots we got on the return trip. With the train back in Union Bridge it seemed our only hope would be for a run up to the Lehigh Cement plant, the line’s largest customer and part owner of the railroad; the plant is served dai- ly. But while waiting at the junction that leads to the plant, we caught a break. We were sitting with friend Bruce Kerr, and one of his Facebook friends posted that the Emory Grove train had just passed through West- minster heading east to Emory Grove. And it had the last two blue and orange
MMID units on the train! We immedi- ately beat feet to Westminster to wait for the train to return (beyond West- minster the railroad and highway are out of sight of each other and we didn’t want to risk missing the train). The highlight in Westminster is where the railroad cuts through the town’s busiest intersection. The approaching train always sends cars scrambling out of the way.
With lead unit No. 304 next in line to go into the paint shop, we knew this would be one of the last trains with
RIGHT: Just minutes out of Union Bridge, MMID No. 304 has train UBEG in tow as it passes a neat old building, one of many photo props along the former Western Maryland main line. BELOW: CORP No. 2063 shows off its new paint as it negotiates the interchange track between the north-south ex-PRR and is about to head east on the ex-Western Mary- land.
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