The Green Ridge Railroad was a narrow gauge

Narrow gauge

A narrow gauge railway is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of between and .- Overview :...

 railroad that operated in Allegany County, Maryland

Allegany County, Maryland

Allegany County is a county located in the northwestern part of the US state of Maryland. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the population was 75,087. Its county seat is Cumberland...

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The rail line was located 8 miles east of Cumberland

Cumberland, Maryland

Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...

, in the vicinity of Town Hill and Fifteen Mile Creek. It belonged to the Mertens family, and supplied lumber to a sawmill at Oldtown

Oldtown, Maryland

Oldtown is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland along the North Branch Potomac River founded in 18th century colonial times. The settlement was initially called "Shawanese Old Town" because it was the site of a Shawnee Amerindian village abandoned about a decade earlier...

 for use by the Merten's boatyards in Cumberland to construct and repair canal boats. The railroad operated from 1889 to 1897. It ended at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal, and occasionally referred to as the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, D.C. The total length of the canal is about . The elevation change of...

, across the Potomac River

Potomac River

The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...

 from Paw Paw, West Virginia

Paw Paw, West Virginia

Paw Paw is a town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 524 at the 2000 census. The town is known for the nearby Paw Paw Tunnel. Paw Paw was incorporated by the Circuit Court of Morgan County on April 8, 1891 and named for the pawpaw, a wild fruit which formerly grew in...

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Locomotives

The two locomotives for the GRRR were built at Mount Savage, Maryland, for T. H. Paul, under contract.

• Green Ridge Number 1 is featured in an illustration of the Mt. Savage catalog, as the model for the 0-6-0 units.
• GRRR Number 2 is an 0-4-0 unit.

Disposition of the engines is unknown.