The beginning of my C&O New River Sub layout

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Marco, I hope your trip includes a stop at the B&O museum in Baltimore to see the C&O locomotives. From there, it is easy to get to DC and you can ride Amtrak's Cardinal the route of the George Washington from DC past White Sulphur Springs, through the New River Gorge, and right into Cincinnati Union Terminal where it once terminated. Another alternative is the annual New River Gorge excursion out of Huntington. I've ridden it once, the year my dad's group leased Milwaukee Road 261 and pulled the train with her.

While the east lacks the operational mainline steam engines (just NKP 765), you don't necessarily have to travel far to see much...especially with the eastern PA and Maryland group: Scranton (Steamtown) is 2.5 hours north of Strasburg (RR & Museum), which is 1.5 hours north of Baltimore (B&O Museum) and Orbisonia (the incomparable East Broad Top) is 2 hours west of Strasburg. Collectively, they have about 80 steam locomotives...and operational steam in each steam.

You layout is looking quite nice. I hope you get some content up on your website too. Ich mochte es!