Hagerstown Answers

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A followup to some of the Hagerstown questions :

What kind of icing facility was located in H-town ?
In addition to Rick Morrison's reply (below) we found an icing facility 
located near the Hager Tower. The ice shed had a 400' platform - was built by the 
Fruit Growers Express in the late teens. The Western MD Railway purchased the 
facility in 1927 & retired it in 1941.

Where was Hagerstown Junction ?
Was located at the Hager Tower (now CP Hager) - listed on old maps as South 
Junction/Hager Tower. It controlled the diamond for N&W, PRR & WM.

Where was Hagerstown Transfer ?
A 1910 map shows a 4 track shed east of the WM erecting shop & on the old 
drawing it was called an umbrella shed & platform. (N&W & PRR tracks were very 
colse to the WM facility).

Where was N&W's freight station in H-town.
See Rick's answer below.


The above information was researched & gathered by Dennis Masters an active 
H-town RR historian & a Board member of the H-town Roundhouse Museum.

Regards,
Terry Marshall
Hagerstown, MD



To answer two of the questions:

The Hagerstown icing facility was in Shomo Yard.  Also known as Vardo.
I have a photo somewhere which shows the icing facility in the 
background.  It looked like the typical icing facility, but only 
large enough to serve one or two tracks.  It is too long of a story 
to tell here, but Shomo yard dates from about the time of World War 1.

N&W and PRR shared a freight station in Hagerstown.  It was 
approximately two city blocks north of the passenger station. The 
building is still there, now owned by the Union Rescue Mission. This 
was actually north of the end of N&W track.  N&W facilities in 
Hagerstown were joint operations with wages and expenses split 
somehow between the two companies.

Rick Morrison
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