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The locos are simmering, and the crews are too. The year isn’t important; let’s say it’s between 1900 and brothers founded it back in the late 1800s. Just a mill and 1929. Life is slow with fishing, crabbing, and oysters plenti- store, but some day maybe they will become somethin’.” As ful. The folks from Baltimore come over for the summer to they moved along the line and approaching Still Pond, the enjoy the cool breezes, swimming, great food, and even bet- old man continued his narrative: ter, the Southern hospitality. “Not only is Still Pond a shipping point by water and rail The Deep Run Railroad is a sleepy kind of neighbor, it runs but they also have a thriving boatyard there, run by this ship- when needed. There is some passenger service but mostly it wright named Garry Cerrone. The boatyard keeps a lot of the hauls freight. The equipment is starting to show it’s age, and men in town working and the town also has the distinction of most of the locos have been bought from some other railroad. having invited women to vote a full four years ahead of the There is talk about the new logging extension that is being women of the rest of the country. As I understand it, now that built. It goes to the edge of the Piedmont Plateau up near Ris- the women are happy so are the men. Go figure that!” ing Sun. There are also rumors that the Pennsylvania Railroad Moving on towards the thriving community of Marydale might be buying the DRRR and making it standard gauge but with its own station and freight house; the conversation got those rumors had been heard before. The railroad has its roots especially colorful. in Chestertown with a small railyard and engine facilities. Yes sir‘ree, Bob, Marydale is home of the famous ‘Thong- There’s also a machine shop, freight house, and a foundry, man’ whom it seems is a legend in these parts. Sometimes and the old man. one can spot him in his yellow and green thong outfit looking Eyeballing a stranger poking around the yard, he saunters at the pretty girls sunbathing or skinny-dipping in the creek. over to see who it is. He’s interesting, but not dangerous and he gives the locals a “Well, howdy, you ain’t from around here are you?” asks laugh now and then.” the old man. On the outskirts of town there’s a cattle yard where they “Naw. Just visitin’.” The young stranger replied. ship out their beef cattle. “Like trains do ya? Me too. So let me tell you about this “Talk about stink,” the old man said. Then he continued: here railroad. Better yet, jump on this here jitter bug and let’s “The guy that owns it says, ‘It’s the smell of money.’” take a ride.” The next stop is Deep Run, home of the Kenly Creek The two men climbed aboard and took off towards Ken- Lumber Company, which is owned and operated by a Mr. nedyville. All along the way the old man kept up a running Van Horn III. The old man noted that the owner wasn’t seen commentary about the sights. around much since his corporate office is over on the West- “Now we just need to keep going a bit ‘cause that up there ern shore. Pointing to a large trestle in the distance he said: is Kennedyville with its sawmill and fledgling community. “Ya see that trestle way over there? That’s the logging exten- For the moment, it’s but a wide spot in the road. The Kennedy sion that takes off from the main line and heads up through 4 • O Scale Trains - Mar/Apr ’10 by Carey Hinch Carey by O Scale Trains Magazine Drawn for Mar/Apr ’10 - O Scale Trains • 5 Delaware and back into Maryland. Yea, the other end is up near Rising Sun, Maryland. This new railroad, the Meadow Mountain Lumber Railroad, hauls logs back to the Kenly Creek Lumber Company. They also have a stone quarry operation going on and have to bring the stone train down to Betterton once a week to meet the barge and have their stone hauled over to the other shore.” Approaching another bridge the old tour guide mentions how expensive the construction was. “Now here is where things get interesting and expensive. The railroad has to cross over the Corsica River, which is fairly large and a lot of money was spent to build a large rock and earth fill to sup- port the roadbed. We were told the bottom was too soft to support pilings for a trestle.” Rolling on to High Point, he observed how pretty the scenery is, and as the name implies, it’s the highest point in the county at 35 feet above sea level.