You might call this, after the romantic notion of working for a railroad, the next best railfan/enthusiast/historian Dream Come True.
My new office 'digs' for my employer AA County Parks Dept is @ the Cecil Avenue crossing, location of former Millersville passenger stop and the large red-roofed colonial farm house property that has been dubbed "Miller Station".
The house property is evidently on the Register of National Historic Places but under no conservation easements...we're renewing exploration and research history of the house in the community and especially its relationship to the railroad which served it as passenger stop, country store etc...I have a pile of stacked old original WB&A rail outside my office window as preservation artifacts. This building was previously the B&A Trail (Rails to Trails) Park HQ, but that office has now moved to new housing at Jonas Green Park on the banks of the Severn River. The Millersville Station property now houses the Anne Arundel County Recreation and Park's ' Resource Conservation and Preservation Section', of which I supervise. IMHO the WB&A history and artifacts are a darned important resource to be conserved and preserved.
Severna Park has Earleigh Heights station (a local parks HQ), there is the preserved building for the Severna Park Model Railroad Society...and now Miller Station on the Annapolis/Odenton leg of the old system. I have access to some past archival info from Parks files and am looking for suggestions, contacts, material, sources and input from the railfan/historian community on proceeding with our research and preservation efforts. Any help out there railfans?
Thanks for anything...
Pat Kelly (residing in Centreville on Delmarva)
Parks Supervisor and train nut
AA Co Rec n Parks Resource Conservation and Preservation
My new office 'digs' for my employer AA County Parks Dept is @ the Cecil Avenue crossing, location of former Millersville passenger stop and the large red-roofed colonial farm house property that has been dubbed "Miller Station".
The house property is evidently on the Register of National Historic Places but under no conservation easements...we're renewing exploration and research history of the house in the community and especially its relationship to the railroad which served it as passenger stop, country store etc...I have a pile of stacked old original WB&A rail outside my office window as preservation artifacts. This building was previously the B&A Trail (Rails to Trails) Park HQ, but that office has now moved to new housing at Jonas Green Park on the banks of the Severn River. The Millersville Station property now houses the Anne Arundel County Recreation and Park's ' Resource Conservation and Preservation Section', of which I supervise. IMHO the WB&A history and artifacts are a darned important resource to be conserved and preserved.
Severna Park has Earleigh Heights station (a local parks HQ), there is the preserved building for the Severna Park Model Railroad Society...and now Miller Station on the Annapolis/Odenton leg of the old system. I have access to some past archival info from Parks files and am looking for suggestions, contacts, material, sources and input from the railfan/historian community on proceeding with our research and preservation efforts. Any help out there railfans?
Thanks for anything...
Pat Kelly (residing in Centreville on Delmarva)
Parks Supervisor and train nut
AA Co Rec n Parks Resource Conservation and Preservation
Patrick Kelly
Residing in Centreville on Maryland and Delaware RR, Centreville Branch...end of the line
Working @ Miller Station Park (South Shore Trail) on the defunct Annapolis and Elk Ridge/WB&A RR, Millersville, Md
Residing in Centreville on Maryland and Delaware RR, Centreville Branch...end of the line
Working @ Miller Station Park (South Shore Trail) on the defunct Annapolis and Elk Ridge/WB&A RR, Millersville, Md