Ridgeley, West Virginia, June 8, 2018:

Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and Diversified Rail Services are very proud to announce that Western Maryland 2-6-6-2 #1309 has successfully complied with:

49 CFR 230.36 (a)(1)
230.36 (b)
230.36 (c)

as well as additional requirements on Wednesday, June 6, 2018.

Thank you for your support.

This came further out of nowhere than an RKO...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/20 ... -fra-hydro

Article is currently free and not behind a paywall...

For some reason, Big Jim's link has a bug of some sort with it. Hopefully this one will work better.

Either way, this sounds like good news for a change.

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/20 ... -fra-hydro

Both links work just fine for me.

Well, somebody was snarking in another thread that nothing was happening with 1309... maybe they noticed...

...or perhaps the snarker was perfectly well aware of recent events and was just priming the pump ;)