Deep Creek, Maryland is not a bad place to vacation.

Just don't try to buy alcohol on a Sunday in Garret county, Maryland.  ಠ_ಠ

 View's nice, from where we stayed.

 On the way to Cumberland

 Turntable at Frostburg, Western Maryland Scenic Railway.

Not far from the Cong either, only about an hour out of Uniontown.  Not a bad place to visit if you're looking for something local.

Conemaugh Dam

Couple of old abandoned railroad tunnels up there.  The old canal tunnel is gone, absolutely no evidence of it left.

 One of the tunnels

 The other one

There were actually 4 tunnels here.  These 2 railroad tunnels, which have been plugged up when the dam was built, the canal tunnel (which is completely gone), and one dug for the hydroelectric power plant.  As it stands now, it's a really neat park up there right below the dam.  You can also see the old canal paths if you look closely enough.

More old photographs

Just a few more photographs from a private collection whose owner was gracious enough to allow me to scan them to preserve the history.  These are mostly Brownsville.

 Bridgeport (now South Brownsville) mine portal, 1953

 Same mine, 1953.

 Brownsville Bridge, 1952.  It's still there.

Brownsville lock, July 1954.  It is no longer there.

 Brownsville Train Station, 1950's with MGA steam locomotive.

 Edgar Thompson Works, seen from the train at Kennywood park.  Still there.

 Fredericktown Ferry, 1950's.  It's still there too!

Under Brownsville Bridge 1950's.

Vesta #5 mine 1952, showing prep plant across the river in LaBelle.  Conveyor bridge and prep plant were destroyed for scrap in recent years.  Current operations are dumping fly ash on the old slate dump.  Some scenes from the movie "The Road" were filmed atop the old dump.

Pike Days 2011

Pike days will be held on May 20, 21 & 22 2011.  Don't miss it.

Too much time on my hands.

Now in addition to a new web page nobody ever visits and a blog nobody reads, I have now setup a forum nobody will ever go to.  fayettenam.org/forum

Go sign up and prove me wrong, nobody.

The new web page

fayettenam.org is the new official web page of the National Front for the Liberation of Fayettenam.  Check it out, although as of now there's absolutely nothing of any note or use there.  Also nobody is reading this, nobody cares or ever will, but this humors me and maybe some day it'll catch on.

Something completely different and useless.

I couldn't find a patch code to do something I wanted anywhere on the internets, so I had to figure it out.  For Final Fantasy III (U.S. release, it was VI in Japan) for the SNES, at least my rom version and configuration, I wanted to keep Cid alive without being pestered to keep getting fish.  The PAR code 7E1EBA07 did the trick, always had a `yummy fish' in my rare item inventory.  Might not work for all versions or all games and may very well overwrite other rare items (which you don't need anyway) but there it is.