Conboy, PA to Edgemont, MD - Western Maryland
This view shows the Western Maryland right of way facing southeast in Waynesboro, in June 2003. Photo courtesy of Mike Palmer.
This line passed through mostly rural areas of southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, though there was some industry in Waynesboro. The connecting lines at the junctions at both ends of this abandoned segment are still active CSX lines.
Heading south from Conboy (on the CSX [ex-WM] Hagerstown - Shippensburg line), this route passed through Elbrook, Five Forks, Waynesboro, Cress and Midvale, Pennsylvania, and on to Edgemont, Maryland, where it joined the former WM mainline. The line north of Waynesboro was in place until the 1980s. The southern segment, to Edgemont, MD, was abandoned in 1960.
The right of way is mostly on private property.
