Railroad in Cumberland

Cumberland, MD - WV
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Cumberland is the place where the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal ends. It should have gone to Pittsburgh, but they gave up in Cumberland, as it was no more economically justified: by the time the canal had reached the Allegheny Mountains, the railroad was entering the picture (this was by 1850).

The canal starts in Georgetown, DC: I walked it up to Cabin John, MD, and I went by car several times to the Great Falls. I wish I were up to Cumberland, I wasn't. So it goes.


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