"We've Been Working on the Railroad"
The Byesville Scenic
Railway is working to rebuild the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's "Eastern
Ohio Branch". When
completed, our excursion train will operate a total of 25 round-trip miles
between Byesville and Cumberland.
Click on the links below to
see photos of our efforts to rebuild the
railroad:
It will take some time before we reach downtown Cumberland.
We will likely progress towards Cumberland in two or three mile increments. In
2008 we
extended the route of our
excursion train one mile beyond Derwent to the State Route 821 crossing just
north of Pleasant City, OH.
This was the first time trains operated over
this segment of track since 1993.
We are now working to rehabilitate our track from the
SR 821 crossing west towards the old mining towns of Bethel and Blue Bell,
OH. We hope to be operating on this section of track soon.
