![]() ![]() The booth was photographed in 1977 at the east side of the yard. Here's the WM telephone booth at Cherry Run. ![]() (thanks to Mike Yetter and Warren Hart for these photos) ![]() The first photo being the side of the office building facing the WM tracks the other being the B&O side of the building. This building is the two photos on the bottom. The WM and B&O also shared an office building here as well. The first photograph is the joint B&O/WM passenger station, followed by the freight station. These old photos were of the railroad structures at Cherry Run. The second photo is a WM hopper car in the train. The old route runs from Millers to West Cumbo.Ī coal train is coming off the B&O and up the WM connection to Big Pool. B&O's lowline is the original route of the B&O, later B&O built a new "shorter" route but it has steeper grades. Miller Tower once controled the interlocking with the WM and B&O's lowline and mainline. It was closed by CSX and now sits in several pieces at the Martinsburg roundhouse. In the early steam days there was also a wye maintained here along with a joint WM/B&O station. The WM had a small yard at Cherry Run that was served by WM freight trains that had stopped a Big Pool, dropped their train, and backed down to the yard to set off or pickup cars from the B&O. Cherry Run was a connection and interchange point with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. ![]()
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