he Western Maryland Scenic Railroad is a tourist-hauling operation based in Cumberland, Maryland — a city of rich railroad history, including the Western Maryland and the Baltimore & Ohio. Today, excursion trains operate over 16 miles of former Western Maryland trackage from downtown Cumberland northwest to Frostburg, Maryland. This was the easternmost segment of the WM's Connellsville Branch, a line 80 miles in length. The WMSR operates passenger excursion trains out of the former Western Maryland station in Cumberland, erected in 1913, which also houses one of the six visitor centers of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. At Frostburg, the other end of the run, smaller locomotives reverse direction on a turntable while passengers layover and enjoy the depot and associated attractions. Longer motive power is handled via a push-pull operation. Between the endpoints, the route passes around Helmstetter's Curve in Cash Valley — long famous among railfans as a photography site for steam action. Brush Tunnel comes next, followed by a hairpin turn at Woodcock Hollow. The Allegheny Highlands Trail of Maryland, part of the Great Allegheny Passage bicycle trail from Cumberland to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, runs along the entire route of this scenic line. The railroad currently rosters two steam locomotives and three diesel-electrics, all of which are maintained in the former Western Maryland car shops just across the Potomac River from Cumberland in Ridgeley, West Virginia.