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The Walkersville Southern Railroad (reporting mark

Reporting mark

A reporting mark is a two-, three-, or four-letter alphabetic code used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on the North American railroad network. The marks are stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one-to-six-digit number, which together uniquely...

 WS) is a 4 mile (6 km) heritage railway

Heritage railway

thumb|right|the Historical [[Khyber train safari|Khyber Railway]] goes through the [[Khyber Pass]], [[Pakistan]]A heritage railway , preserved railway , tourist railway , or tourist railroad is a railway that is run as a tourist attraction, in some cases by volunteers, and...

 in Walkersville

Walkersville, Maryland

Walkersville is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,805 per the 2010 census.-History:Crum Road Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

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History

The Walkersville Southern operates on part of the Penn Central's Frederick Secondary. Penn Central sold the line to the state of Maryland in 1972 after Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Agnes was the first tropical storm and first hurricane of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season. A rare June hurricane, it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle before moving northeastward and ravaging the Mid-Atlantic region as a tropical storm...

 washed out the bridge over the Monocacy River

Monocacy River

The Monocacy River is a free-flowing tributary of the Potomac River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay. The river is long, with a drainage area of about...

. Maryland did not operate anything south of Walkersville, and the right-of-way was taken over by brush and weeds.

Volunteers for the new Walkersville Southern began restoring the line in 1991, and after the state awarded them operation of the line south of Walkersville in 1993, tourist trains began running to the Monocacy River in 1995. The bridge was rebuilt, completed in March of 1996, and trains began crossing the river, 23 years after Agnes. In 1998, the line was rebuilt to its current terminus at Maryland Route 26

Maryland Route 26

Maryland Route 26 is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Outside of the Baltimore city limits, it is known as Liberty Road; inside the city limits it is known as Liberty Heights Avenue....

 in Frederick

Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in north-central Maryland. It is the county seat of Frederick County, the largest county by area in the state of Maryland. Frederick is an outlying community of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater...

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In 2009, Maryland granted rights to operate 3 miles of right-of-way to the north. Restoration of this section is ongoing.

Operations

Today, the railroad runs two to three round trips daily on Saturdays and Sundays in May, June, September, and October; and on Saturdays only in July and August. They also host some special events, including some on weekends and during the off-season.

Diesel locomotives

Number	Image	Builder	Type	Date	Status
1	http://www.wsrr.org/images/ply_lg.jpg	Plymouth Locomotive Works Plymouth Locomotive Works Plymouth Locomotive Works was a US builder of small railroad locomotives. All Plymouth locomotives were built in a plant in Plymouth, Ohio until 1997 when the company was purchased by Ohio Locomotive Crane and production moved to Bucyrus, Ohio in 1999...	18-ton switcher Switcher A switcher or shunter is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been...	1941	Display
2	http://www.wsrr.org/images/dav_lg.jpg	Davenport Locomotive Works Davenport Locomotive Works The Davenport Locomotive Works, of Davenport, Iowa, USA built locomotives from 1902 until 1956. The company acquired the locomotive business of H. K...	25-ton switcher	1939	Primary locomotive
DGVR 45	http://www.wsrr.org/images/ge45b_lg.jpg	General Electric Transportation	GE 45-ton switcher GE 45-ton switcher The GE 45-ton switcher is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by GE between 1940 and 1956.-Equipment:The locomotive was equipped with two Cummins diesel engines, each driving a generator which, in turn, drove one of the two traction motors, one per truck. In early models, the second axle on each...	1943	Operational
101	http://www.wsrr.org/images/101_lg.jpg	Electro-Motive Division	EMD Model 40 EMD Model 40 The EMD Model 40 was a two-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Corporation, and its corporate successor, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between August 1940 and April 1943. Nicknamed "critters", eleven examples of this locomotive were built. Powered by twin General...	1942	Substitute locomotive
7707	http://www.wsrr.org/images/dav3_lg.jpg	Davenport Locomotive Works	20-ton switcher	1942	Under restoration

Museum

The railroad has a small museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 in a separate building near the 1890s Walkersville Depot. The museum contains railroad artifacts and a model railroad.

The railroad also hosts a Pullman

Pullman (car or coach)

In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars which were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company from 1867 to December 31, 1968....

car named the Meadow Lark that is owned and under restoration by the Chesapeake Railway Association.