RAILROAD
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RAILFAN GUIDE to BALTIMORE
Railroad Stuff to See Around Baltimore
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Local Area Maps In Addition to Those of the Baltimore Area:
So OK, enough of the other crap, what about trains.....
Let's start with the local
railroads:
-- CSX - took over the Baltimore and Ohio RR
around these parts, which gobbled up the Western Maryland.
-- Norfolk
Southern - formerly Conrail / Penn Central / and the Pennsylvania RR .
--
Amtrak.
-- The Canton RR, still kickin, altho not as neat to shoot as it was
BT (before tunnel).
-- The Patapsco and Back Rivers RR, at the Beth Steel
plant in Sparrows Point, is still kickin too, but not like it used to.
-- The
Maryland Midland (gets as close as Reisterstown - based in Union
Bridge).
Railroads from another era..... a few visible remains exist
here and there:
-- The Maryland and
Pennsylvania RR.
-- The Baltimore and Annapolis RR (got swallowed up with
that new light rail contraption).
Museums anyone?
-- The Baltimore Streetcar
Museum - just north of Penn Station, is the only "downtown" streetcar museum in
the U.S.
-- The B&O Tranportation Museum - is to the west of
Harborplace.
-- The B&O Station Museum - is out in Ellicott City (~35min
from downtown).
-- The National Capitol Trolley Museum - is in Wheaton, about
an hour away, nice rural setting.
-- The Gaithersburg Railroad Museum - is
northwest of DC off I-270 (~60-75min from downtown).
-- The Smithsonian in DC
- altho not primarily railroads, they do an excellent job with the stuff they
have (~60min).
-- The Western Maryland Historical Society - in Union Bridge,
is well worth the trip (again, ~60min from downtown).
Stations, depots, whatever you want to call
them:
- Penn Station in Baltimore, serving MARC and
Amtrak.
- Camden Station in Baltimore, servicing MARC, light rail, and the
Os.
- Mt. Royal in Baltimore - across from the light rail stop
- Union
Station in Washington DC, servicing MARC, Amtrak, the DC Metro, and the Virginia
Railway Express.
- There are numerous other smaller stations/depots
remaining (* are private homes):
--- President St (NC)
--- Riderwood
(PRR/NC) *
--- Lutherville (PRR/NC) *
--- Falls Rd (PRR/NC/Greenspring
Branch) *
--- Monkton (PRR/NC)
--- Lake Ave (M&Pa) *
--- Forest
Hill (Belair)(M&Pa)
--- Glyndon (WM)
--- Aberdeen (B&O)
---
Perryville (Amtrak/MARC)
--- Maple Rd (B&A)
Hey, buddy, can you find me a yard?
- CSX has
most of them in the Baltimore area, they got em by the bagfull.
---
Penn-Mary - it's on the eastside.
--- Bayview - also on the
eastside.
--- Curtis Bay - on the south side of town, car shop at north
end..
--- Seawall - small yard adjacent to Curtis Bay yard.
--- Riverside - just to
the south of the downtown area, includes diesel storage and maintenance
facility,
.......MARC diesels live and get worked on here too.
---
Laurel - down in Annapolis Junction (not very busy most of the time)
--- Winans,
a small but sometimes busy (in the morns) yard west of town.
--- Locust
Point, to the east of Riverside, services the port.
- Grays yard in Sparrows
Point is for the PBR, CSX, and NS.
- Conrail, scuze me, Norfolk Southern has a
couple:
--- A yard named Bayview - just like CSX and adjacent to it.
---
Canton, adjacent to CSX's Penn-Mary on the eastside.
--- The Flexi-flo yard,
on the far side of the light rail shops, you can't get in there
tho.
And let's not forget some
additional noteworthy structures:
-- Thomas Viaduct in Elkridge on the
B&O mainline - it's the oldest stone arch bridge in the U.S.
-- Carroll Viaduct,
it's
near the B&O RR Museum.
-- Howard St Tunnel for the CSX.
-- B&P
Tunnel for the Amtrak NE corridor.
-- The Downtown Athletic Club off I83 used
to be the Northern Central engine shed.
-- The Power Plant on Pratt St at Harborplace used
to power the streetcars.
NEW: Sometime in 2003
Last Modified: 23-Aug-2007