Posted in Baltimore November 20, 2017 by

These 9 Rare Photos Show Baltimore’s Railroad History Like Never Before

Baltimore is infused with history, especially when it comes to trains. Many railroad firsts happened in and around the city and these 9 photos give us a glimpse into that time.

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1. The Royal Blue train crossing the nearby Thomas Viaduct.
Wikimedia Commons / Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
2. Mount Royal Station in 1986.
Wikimedia Commons / Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
3. And an exterior view of Mount Royal Station, photographed decades later in 1960.
Wikimedia Commons / Jack Boucher
4. A brakeman in Baltimore, photographed in 1941.
Alfred T. Palmer / Library of Congress LC-DIG-fsa-8e10853
5. The Mount Clare Station, now mostly known as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. Photo taken in 1953.
Flickr / Roger W
6, The Howard Street Tunnel, photographed in 1971.
Wikimedia Commons / William Edmund Barrett
7. A diesel locomotive photographed on the Thomas Viaduct in 1970.
Wikimedia Commons / Dp67
8. President Street Station in 1934.
Wikimedia Commons / Jack Boucher
9. Carrollton Viaduct photographed in 1971. This was the first stone masonry bridge built for railroads in the US.
Wikimedia Commons / William Edmund Barrett

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