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Towns Around Baltimore with Items of RR Interest

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See below for a list of what's in these towns
 

So, what's so interesting in these other towns outside Baltimore?

--- Maryland
Aberdeen -- beautiful Frank Furness B&O depot
Annapolis Junction -- CSX Laurel yard – MARC station
Brunswick -- CSX yard - MARC station - MARC train layover - Brunswick RR museum
Chesapeake Beach – CB RR depot and museum
Columbia -- old B&O bridge
Cumberland – CSX yard – WM depot and WM Scenic RR HQ (not on map)
Elkridge -- Thomas Viaduct
Ellicott City -- B&O depot and B&O RR Station museum
Forest Hill -- M&Pa depot
Frederick -- MARC station and train layover - freight sheds
Frostburg – WM depot – WM Scenic end with turntable (not on map)
Gaithersburg -- B&O depot - engine/caboose/misc cars
Glen Burnie -- MTA’s Cromwell light rail shops
Greenspring -- NC depot (home)
Glyndon -- WM depot / MMid-CSX interchange
Hagerstown -- CSX yard - NS yard - WM depot - freight sheds
Hamstead -- WM freight shed
Laurel -- B&O depot and MARC station
Linthicum -- B&A Maple Rd depot
Lutherville -- NC depot (home)
Maryland Line -- a couple of Sears kit houses delivered by train
Monkton -- restored NC depot, Northern Central hikey-bikey trail HQ
Mt Airy -- B&O depot (office)
Oakland – beautiful B&O depot (not on map)
Perryville -- beautiful restored PRR depot - wye - PRR pedestal signals
Point of Rocks -- beautiful B&O station - MARC station - CPL’s gone
Riderwood -- NC depot by Frank Furness (home)
Savage – B&O Bowman Truss bridge (only one left in the world)
St Denis -- MARC station
Sykesville -- B&O depot (restaurant) - B&P tower from Penn station
Union Bridge -- WM Depot and WM Rwy museum - Maryland Midland RR HQ
Walkersville – Walkersville and Southern excursion RR
Westminster -- WM freight shed, caboose on college campus
Wheaton -- National Capitol streetcar museum

--- Delaware
Georgetown – restored PRR depot
Wilmington -- Amtrak station - Amtrak yard and engine repair facility - CSX's Wilsmere yard

--- New Jersey
Camden --  NS (Conrail) Pavonia yard - Camden Light Rail line and shops - lots of old railroad stuff floating around

--- New York
Port Jervis - depot - MetroNorth trains layover for morning trip to NYC - turntable - Susquehana freights

--- Pennsylvania
Allentown -- depot - NS (Conrail/ex RDG) yard
Bethlehem -- depot - what remains of Beth Steel -
Delta -- M&Pa depot
Easton -- nice short concrete viaduct and Crayola Crayons
Gettysburg -- Gettysburg Railroad – Steam/excursion
Hamburg -- small RN yard
Hanover -- Depot - street Running
Harrisburg -- NS (Conrail) Enola yard - Amtrak station dntn - Rutherford yard - lots of PL signals and bridges
Leespot -- Reading Technical Society museum
Marysville --
New Freedom – Stewartstown/NC interchange – maybe misc stuff laying around
New Oxford -- usta be a couple of B&O passengers cars there, don’t know if they still are
Philadelphia -- lots - needs its own railfan guide!!!
Reading -- RDG shop buildings still around
Scranton -- Steamtown - trolley museum - CP +
Stewartstown -- whats left of the Stewartstown RR
Strasburg -- Strasburg excursion RR - Railroad Museum of PA
Temple -- depot and launch point for the Reading & Northern excursion trains
Williamsport -- NS (Conrail) yard - Little League museum
York -- Depot’s - small NS yard - what’s left of the M&Pa RR

--- Virginia
Alexandria – NS yard – VRE station – metro yard
Ashland – small depot for Amtrak – in the middle of the streets running
Buckingham – Buckingham Branch RR HQ
Cape Charles -- depot - yard
Charlottesville – ex C&O depot and Amtrak station – NS diamond (N&W/C&O)
Doswell – RF&P/C&O diamond – depot – Buckingham Branch yard and ofc (the depot)
Fredericksburg – VRE station and train layover
Manassas -- NS yard – VRE station and small train display
Newport News -- depot - old C&O yard
Norfolk -- lots of stuff - needs its own railfan guide
Petersburg -- dunno, but I gotta believe there's something there worthwhile to check out.... never had the time to stop
Richmond – RF&P/CSX acca yard – triple RR crossing – RR museum – ex C&O yard – lots more

--- West Virginia
Harpers Ferry -- B&O/CSX bridge and tunnel

Created 13JUN2007
Last Modified:
06/13/2007