File:Snowy Westbound Yard 1960.jpeg
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This Winter view of a largely inactive westbound yard was part of a 1960 article titled "Brunswick on the Rebound". While ironic in retrospect 64 years later, it was in many ways prescient.
At the time, the U.S. economy was in recession and the westbound hump operations had been moved to Cumberland. Yet some furloughed car repair workers expected to be recalled as snowy conditions created extra maintenance jobs. Mayor James Cummings and Bank of Brunswick executive Emory Frye were optimistic about the coming $300K bowling alley with space for a shopping center and the new Co-op on Souder Road. A new high school was in planning stages. They expected the railroad to always maintain a presence. Ample farmland was available for development.
The C&O Canal had just been designated a National Monument. The mayor said "We will have a front door facing the park and will be in an ideal position to attract tourist business."
(From the Washington Star; credit to Jim Birchfield Star Staff Writer)
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