Enjoy a cab ride over the CSX's Lurgan Sub-Division from just east of Lurgan to CSX's Hagerstown Yard. This former piece of the Western Maryland Railroad, known as the "Alphabet Route", was an important interchange point with the former Reading Railroad.

Today Conrail and CSX interchange at Lurgan with mixed freight and coal traffic just as the Reading and Western Maryland did years before. Our cab ride is on a SD40-2 Conrail locomotive with mixed freight interchanging with CSX.

The trip will take us by old "GN" tower at Lurgan, street running through Chambersburg, PA, and left hand running between Brandon and Conboy. Our train climbs a 1.10% grade for two miles beginning at Brandon.

Color-Sound--90 Minutes
Copyright 1997