Eastern Railroad Discussion > I&O SDs for Maryland Midland

Tipped off by a Virtual Rail cam sighting in Cumberland on Monday, by 11:05 Tuesday morning these 2 Indiana & Ohio SD50s were on a siding at Highfield, MD.
Maryland Midland's UBHF showed up shortly after, followed by the CSX L-whatever with its 2 boring GEs.
MMID's train was around 55 cars, so a dance had to be done with CSX, who ended up with about 75 cars to go back to Hagerstown.

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1. Maryland Midland leaves their outgoing cars on their main line, and rolls west to Fort Ritchie to get their incoming cut.
2. CSX  then backs their train onto MMID tracks to get the outgoing cars.
3. MMID then returns with their incoming cars, and pulls onto the CSX Hanover Sub.

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1.& 2. CSX then makes their exit west, this job also switches the grit mill at Greenstone, PA., 2 miles east on the CSX Hanover Sub.
3. MMID waits to make backup off CSX to regain their rails.
     The train left without picking up the 2 inbound units.

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Monday usually has the heaviest traffic for the MMID's UBHF.

Art House

Thanks again, Big Savage for your updated news and great photos of the former Western Maryland Railway, the Maryland Midland which operates on the former main line of the WM, and CSX which operates on the former Hanover Sub of the WM.  I'm just grateful that I was able to ride many excursions over both of those lines back in the olden days when it was all the well maintained and operated Western Maryland Railway Company.  They were great trips, some with steam and others with diesels.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

bigsavage Wrote:
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> Tipped off by a Virtual Rail cam sighting in
> Cumberland on Monday, by 11:05 Tuesday morning
> these 2 Indiana & Ohio SD50s were on a siding at
> Highfield, MD.
> Maryland Midland's UBHF showed up shortly after,
> followed by the CSX L-whatever with its 2 boring
> GEs.
> MMID's train was around 55 cars, so a dance had to
> be done with CSX, who ended up with about 75 cars
> to go back to Hagerstown.

Interesting that one of the Australian built - ex Hamersley Iron/NRL/Utah SD50S has moved east.

NYSWSD70M
So which one is the ex-Hamersly unit?
Gonut

Gonut1 Wrote:
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> NYSWSD70M
> So which one is the ex-Hamersly unit?
> Gonut
The 5016.

Thanks SteveLV
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Gonut1 Wrote:
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> NYSWSD70M
> So which one is the ex-Hamersly unit?
> Gonut

Steve beat me to it.  NRL bought the five HI SD50S's and three C36-&'s in 1998 and moved them to the US.  NS leased them as NREX units and then Utah bought the SD%)'s and Minnesota Commercial bought one of the C36-7's - since scrapped. 

Seems I recall seeing those SD50S's years ago stored at Silvis ... could that be ?

If so, I must have a photo somewhere.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/26/24 10:37 by train1275.

train1275 Wrote:
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> Seems I recall seeing those SD50S's years ago
> stored at Silvis ... could that be ?
>
> If so, I must have a photo somewhere.

Proably in the time between the NS lease and the sale to Utah.