Tonoloway/B125

Above is a map of the WM along the Potomac River at Tonoloway, Md. Tonoloway is not a town name it was just a name along the RR. Great Cacapon overlook is at the river bend on the map and seen in the two photos directly below. There is a photo taken on October 18, 1970 of the Nickel Plate steam loco #759 with the Blue Mountain Express excursion at this location in the WM book "Fireballs and Black Diamonds", page 274. Today the right-of-way is in great shape (except for the lack of track). The bridge at Polly Pond was at one time the end of the WMRT. The NPS has kept the trees cut back from where the track used to run, but the pole line is being torn apart each spring by the growing trees that have consumed the area.

Looking west into the cuts along the canal just west of Longs Hollow/Polly Pond. These photos are about the B125.6. This section was planned and opened as Phase 3 of the Western Maryland Rail Trail officially on 5-19-05.

This WMRT sign was located along Deneed Rd. during construction of Phase 2 just east of here at Longs Hollow. From here you could drive down the right-of-way a little east to the former end of the WMRT in 2002. On May 19, 2005 Phase 3 of the WMRT was opened west from Polly's Pond to the former site of the Pearre Station.

Here is a photo of a cut through the hillside just west of the bridge at Longs's Hollow. The second is during construction of the WMRT when I drove my car down the right-of-way before construction.(3/02)

Looking west from the bridge at Polly's Pond down the newly opened Phase 3 of the MWRT on May 19, 2005.

An early photo of the Tonoloway area during operation of both the C&O Canal and the WMRY.

This is bridge No.125.3 near Tonoloway at Long's Hollow, just across the river from the B&O at Great Cacappon. There is a small pond on the other side of this bridge, which was used to by canal boats to rest and turn. In the second photo the bridge was being used as a detour for the canal towpath while work was being done on a new bridge.

The bridge was being used as a detour for the canal towpath during construction of a new bridge on the canal to replace the waste wier that was eroding the canal towpath. The water was then drain from Polly's Pond to keep flooding under control in the area. When Phase 3 of the WMRT was built the WM bridge was restored.

The current end of the Western Maryland Rail Trail just short of the bridge.

Looking east at the B125 milepost. This is near the current end of the WMRT in Spring 2003.

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