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Frostburg & Cumberland, Maryland June 2009 The primary destination of our trip to Western Mary and West Virginia was Frostburg & Cumberland, Maryland. These two town while right near one another are 1000 feet in elevation apart. We took the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad between the two towns. It was fun to get away to small town America for a few days. The only low point was when the maid at our hotel in Frostburg sliced our luggage open with a razor knife and stole everything. Otherwise, it was a lovely trip!

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We stayed in Frostburg, Maryland	Western Maryland Railroad tracks	Footer's Dye Works in Cumberland
The historic Western Maryland Railway Station	The historic Western Maryland Railway Station	The rear of the historic Western Railway Railroad Station
Colonel George Washington's headquarters at Fort Cumberland	What else would you plant at George Washington's headquarters but Martha Washington geraniums	Honoring the horses of the towpath that pull the boats up and down the C&O Canal
The Maryland Mountainside	Looking out over the river and waterfall at the train station in Cumberland	Western Maryland Railway tracks overlooking Cumberland
Memorializing the Irish laborers that worked tirelessly to build the C&O canal.	Western Maryland Railroad's diesel engine does some work while we wait for our train	Western Maryland Railroad's diesel engine does some work while we wait for our train
Western Maryland Railroad platform	No high tech sign boards here!	Cumberland, just like Frostburg, is a town of steeples
Western Maryland Railroad's diesel engine does some work while we wait for our train	Western Maryland Railroad's "Moutain Thunder" pulls into the station.	Western Maryland Railroad's "Moutain Thunder" pulls into the station.
Western Maryland Railroad dining car. I was too busy taking photos to eat.	A CSX train passes us	Passing through the Maryland mountainside as we travel up the mountain to Frostburg.
Heading into the tunnel	Preparing to turn the locomotive in Frostburg	Preparing to turn the locomotive in Frostburg
Western Maryland Railroad's "Mountain Thunder" locomotive rotates on the turntable in Frostburg	Western Maryland Railroad's "Mountain Thunder" locomotive rotates on the turntable in Frostburg	Western Maryland Railroad's "Mountain Thunder" locomotive rotates on the turntable in Frostburg
The Palace Theatre in Frostburg, Maryland	The historic Hotel Gunter in Frostburg, Maryland	Downtown Frostburg, Maryland
The turntable look small from the hilltop, but it can turn a steam locomotive in a minute or two	The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad waits to leave the Frostburg station.	Mountain Thunder pulls out of the Western Maryland Railway station in Cumberland
Mountain Thunder pulls out of the Western Maryland Railway station in Cumberland	The Second National Bank building in Cumberland, Maryland	Emmanuel Episcopal Church sits on the land that was once once Fort Cumberland and the beginning of the National Road