Episode 38: B&O Excursion From Relay, Maryland to Mount Airy, Maryland

[@WeldonHunter]

That coaling station mentioned was actually called Williams Run Water Station or Lees-Williams Water Station. Just up the tracks towards Ellicott City about 1/2 mile was the Grays Water Tank built by my 3rd great grandfather Cornelius Cavey's brothers, William and Nathaniel Cavey in 1869 and then sold to B&O. My family, the Cavey's, lived above these on the hill for almost 100 years and my great grandfather George Cavey and my grandfather lived directly across the river from Williams Run Water station. My mom remembers hearing them filling the trains with coal as a little girl. She said it sounded like rain on a tin roof.

[@anthonymiller8979]

I remember a large concrete coaling station structure laying on its side next to the tracks just below Ellicott City in the mid 1970s. Wondering if it is the same one?

[@WeldonHunter]

@@anthonymiller8979 Yes it is. This is across the river from my great grandparents house at 12 River Road. My great uncle ended up with their house and 10 River Road.

[@railroadguy8080]

Very informative-EXCELLENT presentation! Thank You.

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

The Donut Factory sounds like a very interesting industry to model and have loads switched in & out of. Some of the very small RR Stations are also of very unique & interesting design. The old style (Iron?) bridge over the Patapsco River is just gorgeous and I could see it being modeled in brass for someone and it making a spectacular addition to any model railroad.

[@JMLoll]

They used a car puller to get cars across the bridge and into the plant.

[@larryweedon6399]

You Should have done a little history on the Mount Airy branch of the original Baltimore and Ohio main line that ran through the town and then was bypassed in favor of the tunnel under the town.

[@coolruehle]

In reference to the photo at 0:49 seconds of the relay station was clearly NOT taken in 1943. Very clearly there are some cars behind it that are from the 1970's

[@allenctracy6511]

I agree that looks like a Plymouth Duster or Dodge Dart. Also the photo that is said to be 1927 the cars are model A ford's.

[@mshum538]

2:37 another tunnel falls victim to the plate F boxcars …

[@jwnagy]

Are there any photos of the mining operations along the tracks by the Henryton Tunnel?

[@ramblerdave1339]

The railcar that brings the coal to the coaling tower, is called a hopper. The car attached to the locomotive, that the coal and water is dispensed into, is called a tender. You must be a young feller, to not know that!