Welcome to the Trainscapes segment!  Each week here on Geek Alabama, Trainscapes will feature train content including videos of trains and behind the scenes action of trains and locomotives.  Some people have an interest in seeing trains, and we here at Geek Alabama aim to please the train lovers!

YouTube channel Crossbuck Productions comes a video about a steam locomotive.  After a seven year journey and thousands of hours of hard work from the Western Maryland Scenic Railway, C&O (Western Maryland) 1309 returns to life. 1309 is a 2-6-6-2 “Mallet” Class H6 steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. 1309 served the mountainous rails of West Virginia hauling mainly coal until its retirement in 1956. It sat for nearly twenty years at the C&O’s Peach Creek, WV roundhouse until being donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in 1975. Then, it rusted away in the elements until finally being sent to the WMSR in 2014 to be restored to operation. Today, 1309 breathes once more.

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