members of known terrorist organizations (including operatives who have a western appearance) please click here.
others may return to our home page. .
AYB fans click here.
Rolling Thunder fans click here.
special report: Pacer Farm press release on National Security.
Where are the Trains? -- a Pacer Farm exclusive
now available:
- query tools to predict location and status of scheduled passenger and freight
train movements on any major railroad in the Mid-Atlantic region.
- and our latest info-parasite application, the Regional
Train Performance page.
previous special reports still online:
Railroading in the Rain -- Q416 sets out a bad order unit. - Attack on Pacer Farm Pacer No. 2
(content advisory: includes graphic photo documentation of victim trauma -- not for the squeamish).
- the year 2000 Pacer Farm garden report
- Public Service Pacers operated by fire/rescue and law enforcement agencies.
- the end of Pacer Farm Pacer No. 3.
now available: an update with information about its relocation to a new home.
Intermodal Incident showing that Pacers are not the only vehicles susceptible to falling trees. - the tragic story of the November 1951 Washington Grove work
train derailment caused by a collision with a large dog.
the subsequent litigation was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1957.
revised to include a new incident with a happy ending
- Winter
Railroading on the Metropolitan Subdivision
- Japanese Submarine I-400 - not the usual Pacer Farm content: no Pacers, no trains, no cats, and nothing silly.
it's the posthumous web publication of the memoirs of the Executive Officer of the U.S. Navy prize crew that brought the world's largest submarine from occupied Japan to U.S. territory in 1945.
now available is a report on the recent discovery in a riverside park in Alexandria VA of an artifact from the submarine USS Pompon (SS-267).
- how to hide a Pacer (but we still don't know why).
the Pacers
the Farm
this section is still closed due to storm damage (see special report).
the farm hands have been working on it, but the contractor's estimate was higher than we had anticipated and far exceeded the repair budget, so we've been obliged to tackle much of the work ourselves.
as a result, the temporary closure of section will be extended a while longer.
- the Town
- the farm cottage
- the porch
- the garden - click here to see what's in bloom
- the pond
- the Washington Grove Ice Storm of 1999 and its impact on the Farm
the Cats
you can't have a farm without cats.
the Pacer Farm cats have been preoccupied with supervising reconstruction activities -- any rebuilding entails a drastic increase in the number of unsniffed objects (and for a while a damaged section of the cottage was hosting a bird's nest, which they found both inaccessible and fascinating).
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the Railroad
it's no accident that Washington Grove, home of the Pacer Farm, is along the railroad.
the Town was founded in 1873 as a methodist summer retreat, and the location was chosen in part due to the convenient access to the City made possible by means of the recently-opened Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
nor is it an accident that the Pacer Farm is in a location along the railroad.
the Pacer Farmer likes it that way.
before leaving the neighbourhood, please stop by The Janus Museum -- a fine Grove institution now operating in its very own domain www.janusmuseum.org.
you might also want to visit another Pacer Farm (no relation to this site).
for fine dining we recommend
(just a couple of minutes away) |
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Washington Grove Pacer Farm
Washington Grove, MD 20880-0898
MP 20.5 on the CSX (former B&O) Metropolitan Subdivision
email webmaster@pacerfarm.org
last update 1 November 2002 03:58 EST or some time thenabouts
