ABOVE: Train UBEG is on its return leg to Union Bridge from Emory Grove as it joins the chaos in the busiest intersection in the town of Westminster. A mixture of traffic lights, rail- road crossing lights, stop lines that are ignored by motorists (and a train that is not stopping for them) all add to the fun. LEFT: The Lehigh Portland cement mill is served daily by the Maryland Midland, with a cut of cars shoved up the steep grade. Trains take about a half hour to switch the mill, then head back down the hill. The new line to the mill, while steep, is much easier to negotiate than the old line that included street running through a residen- tial area of Union Bridge.
matched blue and orange power on the MMID, so we made the most out of it with a spirited chase. We got the train once again near New Windsor. A funky old wooden building
just outside of
Union Bridge made for a nice scene as well. Back in Union Bridge, we got the train passing the Maryland Midland of- fices (a rather attractive building of rela- tively new construction that looks rail- road-y) and the WM station. And to cap
the day was the daily run up to the Lehigh Cement plant. So what’s going to happen on the MMID power-wise? Most of the rail- road’s GP38-3 fleet is heading to the Central Oregon & Pacific, with MMID Nos. 302-306 becoming CORP Nos. 2062-2066 respectively. The MMID is getting four SD40-2s which will wear G&W Nos. 3403-3406 (the first is of Union Pacific heritage, the rest South-
ern Pacific). MMID No. 301 had re- ceived the G&W paint earlier and is now MMID/G&W No. 2061. Finally, the railroad requested that one unit be kept in the traditional blue and orange, and the corporate office agreed. MMID No. 300 will get a fresh coat of paint and a new number (2060), but will con- tinue in the Maryland Midland image. The changing of the guard is nearly complete... Long live the king!
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