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Display at LAUPT Santa Fe 3751
Metrolink invited Santa Fe 3751 to Union Station as part of a display of equipment announcing the commuter agency’s first Tier 4 compliant diesel. The steam engine was spotted on July 17, seen passing Terminal Tower at the throat of Union Station. Following the end of festivities on July 18, the locomotive was returned to its storage location at Amtrak’s 8th Street Yard in Redondo, Calif. The locomotive is owned by the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society, which first restored the 1917 Baldwin-built 4-8-4 Northern in 1991.
PHOTO BY CHARLES FREERICKS
Landisville Railroad Night Photo Session
Landisville Railroad’s colorful SW900M No. 8651 poses for a photo during an event hosted by the Conrail Historical Society on July 22 in Landisville, Pa. The last-minute event was put together after a planned photo session at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania to honor the 40th anniversary of Conrail had to be rescheduled. Originally built for Lehigh Valley as NW-1 No. 124 in 1938, it was rebuilt in 1955 and later became Conrail No. 8651, providing a nice piece of heritage for CRHS members to enjoy.
PHOTO BY ADAM LLOYD
STEAM AND PRESERVATION OTTO M. VONDRAK
Rock Slide Curtails WMSR Train Ride
A rock slide discovered along the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad earlier this year must now be stabilized before train rides can resume beyond Woodcock Hollow Road outside Cumberland, Md. The service suspension is expected to last through 2017. Geotechnical consultants hired by Allegany County to assess a landslide in the vicinity of WMSR tracks at the hollow recommends that the bedrock underneath the WMSR tracks and Great Allegheny Passage Trail be stabilized before regular trains resume operations past that point. The county has made this project a priority and expects to have
the design of a retaining wall completed and out for bid as soon as possible. Railroad officials met with representatives from the county as well as outside engineering firms to review the status of the landslide, which was first discovered by the railroad at the end of February. The county hired engineering firm Hillis-Carnes to examine the site and install inclinometers to measure any movement of the ground and bedrock in the vicinity. Initially, the engineers authorized WMSR to continue operating through the affected site at reduced speed. Since that time, significant shifting in
the bedrock was recorded through July, and Hillis-Carnes recommended that WMSR temporarily suspend regular train operations past the site until the slope is stabilized. WMSR will continue to operate its regularly scheduled trains,
stopping at Woodcock Hollow Road rather than Frostburg, until the track bed is secured and the county’s engineers are confident that all trains can operate safely.
Dating back to 1911, the tracks were originally built as part of the Western Maryland’s “Connellsville Extension.” While the majority of the line was abandoned by Chessie System in 1975, the segment from Cumberland to Frostburg remained in service. This track was acquired in 1988 when the State of Maryland, Allegany County, and the Cities of Cumberland and Frostburg created the not-for-profit Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Development Corporation to preserve and operate the railroad from Cumberland to Frostburg and spur regional economic development. Engineers anticipate the stabilization work to take approximately four months.
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