Rockville, MD: B&O 1873 Depot and 1887 Freight House

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Street View, Jul 2024

RE Pearce posted two photos with the comment: "The start of my journey following the route of the Capitol Limited. Rockville MD was the first stop after the B&O (later Amtrak) Capitol Limited (later Floridian) left Washington Union Station on the way to Chicago.  Now a MARC commuter stop, it also has office space."

Richard Slattery: Amtrak and MARC trains ceased using the historic Rockville station depicted in 1981 in favor of two platforms located adjacent to the then under construction Metro station a short distance away; the historic station was rotated 180 degrees at the same time. https://www.rockvillemd.gov/2189/Rockville-Railroad-Station

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"The Rockville Railroad Station is composed of two buildings: a passenger depot built in 1873 and an adjacent freight depot built in 1887....The population of Rockville in 1873, the year the station opened, was 670 people. By 1890, the population had increased to 1,500 residents, primarily due to easy access to Washington via train....Although it continued to serve as an Amtrak station, in 1981 the station complex was moved about 50 meters to the south away from the rail corridor and rotated 180 degrees to front Church Street. This repositioning was done as part of the expansion of the Metro into Rockville." [RockvilleMD_station]