line remnants near Boynton, PA

[Fred W. Schneider III]

There was a Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway in lower Somerset
County.  There was also the Western Maryland mainline from Cumberland to
Connellsville, which was lifted except for all the viaducts.

If you want to look at the remnants when the leaves are off the trees, we can
always get a group together ... Ed Lybarger, you, me and perhaps others from
the museum.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> I can't remember what the name of the system in question was (was it maybe
> Salisbury and Garrett?) but I saw what I'm guessing was a remnant today.
> It was either that or something left from a lifted B&O spur, but for some
> reason I have the idea that it was in the right place to be a lifted
> trolley line. More particularly, when heading south on US 219, as you are
> just about at the left hand curve (with the creek on your right) to enter
> the "village of Boynton" you can see a grade and abutments where a bridge
> crossed the creek. I didn't get a picture but it's my hope to get one some
> time in the future, probably during low-shrubbery season, and make it
> available online.
>
> -D