we invite you to visit us at our restored western maryland Railway station
Our restored Western Maryland Railway Station Visitors’ Center and Museum closed for the winter on October 27, 2024. We will reopen for another season along the Great Allegheny Passage on April 1, 2025, at which point we will be here to greet you from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. seven days a week (with the exception of Easter Sunday).
The Meyersdale Area Historical Society supports and promotes activities chronicling our area’s story and participates in the development of interest, appreciation, preservation and research in the region’s history. The society’s home is the renovated Western Maryland Railroad Station, leased from the County of Somerset. This historical building serves as a visitors’ center, local history museum, and trailhead on the Great Allegheny Passage hiking and biking trail. The station houses exhibits relating to the region’s history, railroad-themed artifacts, operational model train displays featuring a children’s activity area, DVD programs highlighting trail and local attractions, in addition to oral histories, and a gift shop. The station is typically open each April through October, offering hospitality and rest area facilities to trail users, tourists and local residents. Staff, volunteers, signage and printed materials at the visitors’ center provide information about housing, food service, amenities and attractions not only for the Meyersdale area but also throughout the county and along the trail.
Working in conjunction with Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, the Meyersdale Public Library, and our Meyersdale Area Historical Society, students at California State University of Pennsylvania have created this wonderful digital story about the impressive community effort behind the restoration of our Western Maryland Railway station and, in turn, our historical society’s formation over a quarter century ago. Thank you to everyone who had a hand in making this video, and THANK YOU to all of those who worked so very hard decades ago to turn Meyersdale’s once dilapidated train station into a premier attraction and favorite spot along the Great Allegheny Passage! You’ll see a lot of familiar faces as you watch this story, many of them now gone, yet still appreciated and always remembered. We owe them much.
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