The interchange in the Cumberland Narrows area also linked Mount Savage to the Potomac Wharf Branch.

The Maryland and New York Coal and Iron Company built its rail line in order to connect with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

The railroads provided heavy industrial manufacturing as well as a transportation resource for raw materials and finished goods.

The Mount Savage rail yard had at its center a twelve stall roundhouse, which also served as a passenger depot.

It winds through Cumberland, The Narrows, Helmstetter Curve, the Brush Tunnel, Woodcock Hollow, and finally ending in Frostburg.

[2] In December on designated excursion trips Santa walks through the cabins handing out candy canes and talking to the riders.

[2] The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is 135 mile biking and hiking trail that connects Duquesne, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) to Cumberland, MD.

The path is covered in crushed limestone and the majority of the trail runs right next to the Mount Savage railroad.