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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
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| Title: | Collection 337. Western Maryland Railway Blueprints, 1937 |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | Western Maryland Railway Collection of Papers consists of seventeen 36" x 24" blueprints of Western Maryland Railway's Randolph County expansion project. |
| These blueprints provide material specifications and illustrate the railing dimensions, connections, blast plates, lighting system, and elevations for abutments and piers. It also provides a 3" map of the site in Elkins. | |
| Extent: | 3 linear feet, 1 archival oversize box |
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[Identification of item], Collection 337. Western Maryland Railway Blueprints, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.
Provenance is unknown. There is no accession number. It was opened to the public in February 2008.
Processed by Kathryn Staley, February 2008
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, February 2008
The state of Maryland chartered Western Maryland Railway in 1852 as the Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick Railroad to facilitate agriculture trade. It became the Western Maryland Railroad in 1853. By 1870, the Western Maryland Railroad was actively involved in the coal craze. It became Western Maryland Railway in 1908 during a receivership. It was acquired by Chesapeake and Ohio in 1968 and consolidated into Chessie Systems in 1973.
CSX Corporation is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries that provide freight transportation services. CSX Corporation was incorporated after a merger between Seaboard Coast Line Industries Inc. of Jacksonville, FL and Chessie System Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio. CSX corporation's headquarters is Richmond, Virginia, which has the historic association with both Chessie and Seaboard. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, part of the Chessie System Railroads, traced its corporate ancestry to the Louisa Railroad Company which was chartered in Richmond in 1836, and the C and O railway had its headquarters in that city for many years.
Formed in 1980, CSX Transportation operates the eastern United States' largest rail network and is the main business unit of CSX Corporation. CSXT provides rail freight transportation consists of more than 23,000 route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSXT headquarters are in Jacksonville, Fla.
For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad website and Brief history of several rail companies active in Appalachia.
This collection provides diagrams of the Western Maryland Railway's 1937 expansion project in Randolph County, West Virginia in the town of Elkins. These blueprints illustrate the Randolph Avenue Overhead off of U.S. Routes 219 and 250. The Federal Works Grade Crossing Funds allocated to the state of West Virginia financed this project under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.
These blueprints provide material specifications and illustrate the railing dimensions, connections, blast plates, lighting system, and elevations for abutments and piers. It also provides a 3" map of the site in Elkins.
| Western Maryland Railway |
| Railroads - Primary Source |
| Collection 337. Western Maryland Railway Blueprints. (1937) | |||||||||
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| Oversize 1 | Blueprints, 1937. | ||||||||
