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Campbells and Doe Gully were located on the WM West Sub between mileposts B132 and B134. There was a 5,296ft. storage track at Doe Gully. There were telephone pole boxes at each end of the storage track and a set of automatic block signals at the east end of the track. These signals were Nos. 132.0 and 132.1. There was and still is a road crossing in the middle of what was the Doe Gully storage track. This road is Doe Gully road that runs from Orleans Cross Roads on the B&O. Campbells was to the west end of the storage track at Doe Gully. Nothing is at Campbells on the WM track chart(B133.5) except a drainage ditch that runs under the right-of-way. There were another set of signals and a phone box just west of Campbells at the B134. These signals were Nos. 134.0 and 134.1.
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local story I spoke with two men who live along the abandoned WM right-of-way at Doe Gully. They said that Campbells and Doe Gully were a "flag stop" during passenger train days, meaning if someone wanted to board the train they would wave a red flag at a approaching train and it would then stop. They said a lady who had lived just down from them used to flag down the train, board it, and ride east to Little Orleans to get her groceries. She would then wait for a westbound train to return home. This section of the right-of-way is under the greatest controversary as a possible railtrail. The landowners here I spoke to are afraid of litter, tresspassing and any restricted use of their land if a trail were built.
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