September 4 late am Cumberland, MD

Knowing that this trip would be 600 miles with a lot of up and down driving and a lot of tight curves, I rented a car for this trip. 

Our first stop was at the Cumberland, Maryland Historic Railroad Station. This is also a point where the C&O historic canal went. The station has the old railroad terminal and passenger area and lots of artifacts from the period of its great days. 

The railroad basically made the canal obsolete even before it was finished. Now the neither the canal nor the railroad is used for commerce but both are used for recreation.

We've been to this site before but not since they added the statue of the mule and attendant.