Decapod on Helmstetter’s Curve

Decapod on Helmstetter’s Curve

By Angela Cotey | December 7, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Western Maryland 2-10-0 1109 rounds famous Helmstetter’s Curve west of Cumberland, Md., with a westbound freight in May 1952. Unseen, two more Decapods at mid-train and a fourth on the rear help lift the train upgrade.
Ed Theisinger photo

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