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.

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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