Odd name, especially for a place not connected with the timber industry.  It rhymes with Cumberland (MD), so maybe there's a vague functional association.  Or maybe it has to do with the local geology, since the subsoil here seems to be made entirely of plywood.

At any rate, Lumberland represents a modest-size city with a population of  perhaps 100,000.  It's a division point on the  B&O, where train crews are changed and locomotives are serviced.  Lumberland's Union Station, accessed by a long viaduct, offers passenger service on the New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk & Western railroads, as well as the Baltimore & Ohio.

Ebola is an industrial district of Lumberland.  It's the site of B&O's freight classification yard, locomotive roundhouse, and a refrigerator car icing facility, plus local industries.

◄Ebola engine facility:

Incoming EM-1 (2-8-8-4) #7629 clambers onto the turntable to enter the roundhouse for overnight maintenance.  At the left, a pair of DF-3's (EMD F3) take on fuel and sand.

Except for the occasional breakdown emergency, B&O's Lumberland engine facility services freight power only.

Ebola engine facility:►

S-1a (2-10-2) #6206 pauses at the coaling tower for "topping-off" before backing out to the yard to pick up a freight eastbound for Colbin.  A DF-5 (EMD F7) purrs at idle on the diesel service track to the left.

Locomotives are routinely serviced on arrival, but fuel and water are topped off before departure.

◄Ebola freight yard:

It's busy this morning, in this general view of the east end of the yard.  Two trains of hoppers—an eastbound with loads and a westbound with empties—have arrived for a change of power and crews.  A third, the eastbound "Time-Saver" (center track), has exchanged a few cars for local pick-up and delivery, and is now ready to release brakes and get rolling once more.

The yard's DS-11e (EMD NW2) switcher waits on the caboose track for the freight to clear before getting back to its chores.  Emergency relief equipment, including a 200-ton Bucyrus-Erie steam crane, is parked on its usual standby siding on the left.

Lighter-colored ballast marks the double-track main line, which splits to go around the yard on both sides.

◄Ebola freight yard:

Q-4b (2-8-2) #4468 has arrived with the morning eastbound local freight from East Clintwood.  The engine will visit the coal and water facilities before being turned to haul the afternoon westbound back up the branch line.

Ebola-west: ►

Hopper trains meet—empties westbound to the mines, loads eastbound to the coast—a many-times-a-day sight in the 1950s.  No wonder the B&O is nicknamed "the steel conveyor belt"!

The Fahr-Fecht fabricating plant is one of those industries that started small and exploded in size during and after World War II.  A sheen on the pavement and the cinder parking lot suggests there's been a recent rain shower.  To the left we glimpse a class T-3 (4-8-2) hustling eastward with a string of loaded refrigerator cars.

Currently in the imagineering stage (hence no pictures), New Bobhart is envisioned as a working-class neighborhood of Lumberland, adjacent to the interlocking where freight traffic for Ebola yard and passenger traffic for Union Station converge onto the main line to the west.

This small town is the last stop westbound before the Clintwood branch diverges to the south and the main bores into a tunnel on its way to Pittsburgh.  The Haydn Place depot is on the B&O main line, but also serves passenger traffic from the PRR, NYC, and N&W, which have passenger trackage rights from here into Lumberland's Union Station.  (The depot buildings are models of those at the former Winton Place depot in Cincinnati, which served these same four railroads.)

Haydn Place depot:

▲A panoramic view catches all four buildings in the depot ensemble.  (Yeah, the prototype crossing shanty looks cockeyed, too!)  One of B&O's new passenger-geared RSE-4c's (EMD GP7) charges through with a Pittsburgh-bound mail train.

◄Norfolk & Western's westbound Powhatan Arrow, headed by J (4-8-4) #611, brakes for a station stop during an early construction phase at the depot.

Modeler's license:  Though there are (in 1955) real-world places (in Ohio and perhaps elsewhere) where the Baltimore and Ohio shares trackage with the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, and the Norfolk and Western, to my knowledge there's no place in the Allegheny region where all four of these railroads operate over the same rails.  In the Pittsburgh area, the B&O shares trackage rights with the PRR and the P&LE (part of the NYC System), as well as the Erie.  And an N&W branch intersects the B&O at Hagerstown, Maryland, though none of N&W's name passenger trains operate on that branch.  Still, this is my railroad, and I'll run whatever I please on it!

The single-track Clintwood branch is still in the "imagineering" stage, so no photos are available.  The overall grade is determined, space for major track curves has been allotted, and the general theme is envisioned as a mountainous coal-mining area.  The town of East Clintwood is expected to feature a small passenger depot, a turning wye, a yard, and presumably some local industry.  The yard will serve for sorting loads and empties for local businesses, and as a distribution-collection point for coal hoppers headed to and from mines farther up the branch.  Since this is coal country, I expect it to be a hold-out for light steam power—mostly Q-3 and Q-4 class 2-8-2's, with a P-5 4-6-2 for twice-daily commuter-and-mail runs.

More later...