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This excursion took me from Hancock, MD to the Round Top Cement on the C&O Canal and then back to Hancock on the Western Maryland Rail Trail. [Click on photos for larger view.]

Here you are looking downstream at the kilns of the Roundtop Cement Factory. The kilns are on the bluff to your left.	When you actually climb to the kilns and look upstream toward the cement plant itself, this is a view. Notice the large eye ring embedded in the rock. There were a series of these; probably used for guiding cables or ropes.	After the climb down from the kilns, you can walk up toward the plant. Here the view is from the canal looking up at the chimney and the remains of one of the walls of the factory.

The chimney is in really good shape. This hole is probably where a flue or pipe from a coal fire came into the chimney and the height of made the draft better.	Looking from the factory toward the kilns through the remains of some concrete supports.	Just downstream of milepost 130, is this concrete retaining wall that supports the Western Maryland Railroad right-of-way and keeps it from crumbling into the canal.

Looking upstream (roughly NW) on the Western Maryland Rail Trail. Beautiful vistas and very smooth ride.		Now you are looking at the Cement Factory from the Rail Trail. As you can see, there is the mountain, the railroad, the factory, the canal, and the river. Not a lot of room between them. Notice the chimney sticking up from the tree tops.

This is a photo of a drawing on the WM Rail Trail. It is of a suspension bridge so that sand could be transported across the railroad tracks to a storage house and later loaded for shipment. The sand at Round Top was good for glass making.	Here are the remnants of the sand storage house at Round Top Sand. These were actually fairly large.	Getting closer to Hancock, MD, you run across this very old loading dock. The ramp on the left hand side would fold down so that some freight could be dumped into cars. Otherwise, the freight could be loaded into box cars. This was part of the WD's efforts to expand regional economies to generate revenue.

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