Millers Cove has a small dock where some freight is occasionally shipped.
This is the origin of the name CB&W. This engine, assigned to PJ's ore mine, was lettered for the Chesepeake Bay & Western RR club....
The CB&W does a lot of work switching PJ's ore mine. They even painted an engine in matching colors and assigned it to PJ's place.
CB&W's newest engines pause for their picture on the east end of the Narrows.
In the 1980's the CB&W bought a couple of more engines, this time second generation EMD's. They hung on to older GP 9's and had them reworked...
With business booming in the 1960's, the railroad began picking up discarded first generation GP engines.
The caboose vanishes through the Narrows on its way to Millers Cove.
From the old to the new, here are a sampling of the engines that keep the CB&W in business.
A different view.
We are walking in high cotton! The CB&W has acquired a small crane and tender.
The caboose of the coal train leaves Millers Cove.
An over all shot of Millers Cove with the coal train exiting stage left to Hawksbill Station.
The coal train enters Millers Cove and slows to traverse the yard.
Let's take a quick tour of some of the high points of the Cedar Branch & Western layout. We'll follow a coal train from Breen's Mine to the...
#12 is a Proto 2000 undecorated model. It's one of two (the other is #14) P2K switchers.
#12 lumbers accross the trestle and into Millers Cove yard. Fisherman below give a freindly wave.
Switcher #12 eases down the grade on the Breen's Mine branch.
The tail end of a train passes down town Upper Millers Cove. This turn is on the way down hill to Hillside Junction by way of Hillside Tunnel....
The red switcher moves out of sight behind a MOW office building.
