 The Dunnings Creek Branch, later part of the main line, opened from Dunnings Creek Junction (near Bedford) north, through Cessna, to ore mines at Holderbaum in 1873.The Pennsylvania Railroad in Maryland was chartered in 1876 to build an independent connection from the state line to Cumberland.The road opened in 1879 and in 1888 was merged into the Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad and later became part of the Western Maryland Railway.