The main branch of the Allegany County Library is located in Cumberland, on Prospect Square, across from the County Court House, and a short walk from the Western Maryland Station. The library at Frostburg State University has excellent holding on area history, including early newspapers on microfilm. The Allegany Community College in Cumberland has a local history section.

Bookstores that stock works of local interest include the BookCenter on Liberty Street in Cumberland and Main Street Books in Frostburg. The Gift Shop in the Western Maryland Station Center also maintains an inventory of related books.

Hicks, H. Ray. "The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad," R&LHS Bulletin, No. 66, March, 1945, pp. 36-50.

Hicks, H. Ray. " The Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad," R&LHS Bulletin, No. 85, March, 1952.

Hicks, H. Ray. " The Pennsylvania Railroad in Maryland," R&LHS Bulletin, No. 85, March, 1952.

Mellander, Deane. Rails to the Big Vein, the Short Lines of Allegany County, Maryland, January, 1981, Potomac Chapter, NRHS, Inc.

Mellander, Deane. Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, 1981, Newton, NJ:Carstens Publishers, Inc., ISBN 911868-42-9.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Engines Cumberland," The Automatic Block, (newsletter of the Western Maryland Chapter, NRHS, Inc., Cumberland, Md., March, 1992, Vol 14, no. 3.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Georges Creek Railroad 1853-1863," Nov. 1995, The Automatic Block, Vol. 17, No. 11.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Eckhart Branch Railroad, 1846-1870," Jan. 1996, The Automatic Block, Vol. 18, No. 1.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Mount Savage Rail Road 1845-1854," June 1995, The Automatic Block, Vol. 17, No. 6; reprinted in Cumberland Times, Sept. 30, 1995, Railfest special section.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Potomac Wharf Branch," Sept. 1995, Baltimore, MD:Bullsheet.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The Earliest Railroad Activities in Western Maryland, 1828-1870," 1996, J. Alleghenies, Vol. XXXII, ISSN-0276-7449.

Rail Tracks in Allegany County, Maryland, Book 1, 1980, Preservation Society of Allegany County, Md., Cumberland, Md.

Tosh, Francis B. "Cumberland & Westernport Electric Railway," 1963, Bulletin of the National Railway Historical Society, Vol. 28 No. 4 p. 24.

"92 Years of Transportation Progress by the C&P Railroad and its Contribution Towards the Development of Cumberland, and Allegany County, Maryland," C&P Railroad, 1937, Cumberland, MD.

MISC.

Lacoste, Kenneth C., Wall, Robert D. An Architectural Study of the Western Maryland Coal Region: The Historic Resources, Maryland Geological Survey, 1989.

Newell, Dianne "The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland" Washington: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, 1979, c1975, ISBN 0-89133-023-2.

Nixon, David William. "Queen City Station-Hotel," Blue Print Series, 1992.

Queen City story as told in news articles. Cumberland, Md. Preservation Society of Allegany County, 1981.

Pennypacker, Bert. To Cumberland & Beyond, NRHS Bulletin, Vol. 54, no. 6, 1989, reprinted 1995 by the Western Maryland Chapter, NRHS, Inc.

Stakem, Patrick H. "A Railfan's Guide to the Allegany Central," privately published for Western Maryland Railway Historical Society's Cumberland Convention, 1989.

Ware, Donna M. Green Glades and Sooty Gob Piles, Maryland Historical Trust, 1991.

"A Railfan's Guide to the Cumberland Area," pamphlet, WMC-NRHS, Inc.

Western Maryland Weekend, Railpace News Magazine, August, 1991.

Toomey, Daniel Carroll. The Civil War in Maryland, 1983, Baltimore:Toomey Press.

Kaminkow, Marion J. Maryland A to Z; A Topographical Dictionary, 1985, Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co.

Kirsch, Richard, and Rundle, John, "Scenic Western Maryland Railroad Travel Guide," 1990, Western Maryland Chapter, NRHS, Inc.

Minor, D. K. (ed.). American Railroad Journal, Summer, 1844, tour of Mount Savage.

Bryant, William Cullen. "Mount Savage, 1860," Saturday Evening Post, 1860, Reprinted in Tableland Trails, Vol. I, No. 3, Fall, 1953, Oakland, Md.

Carney, Charles. "The History of Mount Savage," May, 1967, Project 67-014-005, Cooperative Extensive Service, University of Maryland.

Deffenbaugh, Mrs. Roy. "History of Mount Savage, Maryland," Mount Savage High School, 1968.

Allen, Jay Douglas. "The Mount Savage Iron Works, Mount Savage, Maryland a case study in pre-Civil War industrial development," 1970, Thesis (M.A.) - University of Maryland, 1970.

Aldridge, Howard Redford. "The Mount Savage Iron Works," 1924, Records of Phi Mu Fraternity, University of Maryland at College Park Libraries.

Hughes, George Wurtz. "Extracts from reports of an examination of the coal measures belonging to the Maryland mining company, in Allegany county; and of a survey for railroad from the mines to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, at Cumberland," 1837, Printed by Gales and Seaton, Washington (available: Pratt).

Report of President & Board of Directors of Cumberland Coal & Iron Company to the Stockholders, Feb. 11, 1853, New York, John F. Trow, Printer.

Rankin, Robert G. "Report on Cumberland Coal Basin," 1855, New York, John F. Trow, Printer.

Alexander, John H. "George's Creek Coal and Iron Company," 1836. [Baltimore?, 1837], available: FSU lib: Special Collections, Noncirculating, TN805.Z6G3, also Pratt, D9549.G4A3q.

Harvey, Katherine A. "The Lonaconing Journals: The Founding of a Coal and Iron Community 1837-1840," 1977, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Vol. 67, Part 2, March, 1977.

"Lonaconing - Home in the Hills," 1986, Lonaconing, Md.

Harvey, Katherine A. The Best-Dressed Miners - Life and Labor in the Maryland Coal Region 1835-1910, 1969, Cornell University Press.

References for GC&C

Urbas, Anton. "GC&CRR Passenger Train Service," 1993, J. Alleghenies, Vol. XXIX-1993, pp. 38-47.

GC&C Passenger Schedule, January 18, 1887, collection of Dan Coxe, Cumberland, Md.

Further Reading - Intermodal

"Cumberland Terminus," 1992, C&O Canal Historical Park.

Hahn, Thomas F. "The C&O Canal Boatmen 1892-1924," 1980, The American Canal & Transportation Center.

Hahn, Thomas F. "Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Old Picture Album," 1989, The American Canal & Transportation Center.

Stakem, Patrick H. "Coal to the Western Terminus, Canal-Railroad Connections in Cumberland, Maryland," Sept. 1995, On the Towpath, Vol. XXVII, no. 3 p. 10-11.

Stakem, Patrick H. "The C&O Canal and the Railroads, Cooperation, Synergy, and Competition," January 1993, invited paper, presentation to a joint meeting of the C&O Canal Historical Society and the Western Maryland Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Western Maryland Station Center, Cumberland, Md.

Ierley, Merritt. Traveling the National Road, 1990, Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, ISBN 0-87951-394-2.

Best, G. M. "Thomas H. Paul & Son, Locomotive Builders," R&LHS Bulletin , No.141, Autumn, 1979, pp. 19-26.

Stakem, Patrick H. "T.H. Paul & Son, Locomotive Builders in Frostburg, Md.," Jan. 1992, Automatic , Cumberland, Md., Vol. 14, No. 1.

Stakem, Patrick H. "Engine #5," 1995, March, 1996, The Automatic Block, Vol. 18 no. 3.

Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Vol 2, p. 1488-1489.

White, John H. A Short History of American Locomotive Building in the Steam Era, 1982, Bass Books, Washington, D.C.

Hicks, H. Ray. "The West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh," NRHS Bulletin.

West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway Company, 1899, reprint 1992, Parsons, WV:McClain Printing Co., ISBN 87012-418-8.

notes:

Automatic Block is the Newsletter of the Western Maryland Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Cumberland, Maryland.

On the Towpath is the newsletter of the C&O Canal Historical Society.

Bullsheet is published by Allen Brougham of Baltimore, Md.

1. Feldsteins Historic Allegany County A Video Postcard Extravaganza, 1990, Albert L Feldstein, Commercial Video Services, Cumberland, Md.

2. Allegany Rails, Vol. 1, (B&O), and Vol. 2, (WM), William Price

3. Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, 1991, Pentrex.

4. Into the Allegeny Range, 4 Volumes, 7 tape set, Iron Horse America Productions, 1995, Pentrex.