Railyard: (Satellite, it looks like it was rebuilt to be an intermodal yard, but it is empty now.
Eric M Ziegler posted three photos with the comment: "The B&O Railroad Museum when it was still owned by CSX, The loan Hack sitting by the car shop, Winter 1985."
The yard used to extend a ways to the West.
Most of the yard is gone but they do appear to have a storage area.
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| Jim Kelling shared Carl Venzke's post Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Mount Clare Passenger Car Shop, Southwest corner of Pratt & Poppleton Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD - undated photo from the Library of Congress Much of this is still there as the B&O Museum. I literally cried when the blizzard of 2003 collapsed the roundhouse roof. Thomas Krueger Whole area is great. The Quay and the ships. Love it.Great museum. Don’t park your car on the street if you visit. I walked over from Inner Harbor. The domed roundhouse was erected in 1885. Not really a roundhouse (though it is called such) but the passenger car repair shop for the B&O Turntable is inside of the building. It’s a passenger car round house There’s another one in Martinsburg, WV. |
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| B&O Railroad Museum posted Located around the B&O Railroad's Mt. Clare Station and railroad yards, construction of the first homes in the area were erected in 1833. Occupying these homes, a community of railroad workers grew along Columbia Avenue, now Washington Boulevard, in the 1840s, followed by industrial development in the 1850s and 1860s. This area is modern day Pigtown, so named because of the slaughter houses once located near the railyards. Slaughterhouse workers in Pigtown herded pigs to shops for slaughter and processing, and packing plants were lined across the streets across from the rail cars. J Mike Wester shared |
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| Tim Starr posted Baltimore and Ohio erecting shop at Mt. Clare (Baltimore). The L-shaped paint shop is at right; the roundhouse cupola can be faintly seen in the center background. (B&O Museum collection) |
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| Jack Sheets shared a Sandra Lee Harper post B&O Mt. Clare Shop overhauling locomotive in 1945 |
Eric M Ziegler posted three photos with the comment: "The B&O Railroad Museum when it was still owned by CSX, The loan Hack sitting by the car shop, Winter 1985."
Bryan Turner: I see a C&O dynamometer car - probably rode behind the C&O turbine many times.
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| B&O Railroad Museum posted This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Roundhouse Roof Collapse. This collapse heavily damaged the Museum’s collection and many of the historic pieces took years of restoration to repair. On Friday @ 11 AM, we are offering a tour to take a look at the storied history of our 1884 Baldwin Roundhouse – from that fateful night in February 2003 to rebuilding it to its current glory. For more information, visit https://www.borail.org/events/tour-rebuilding-the-cathedral-of-american-railroading/ [A comment indicates the collapse was because of a snow storm.] Randall Hampton shared Can you believe it's been 20 years already? |
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| James Bailey posted Feb 17 2003 the roof on the B&O Musesm Fell in from 28inches of snow. James Churchill: Given the suspended cast iron ring architecture, it must have been difficult to repair but job well done! |
The yard used to extend a ways to the West.
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| 1953 Baltimore West Quad @ 24,000 |
Most of the yard is gone but they do appear to have a storage area.
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I concluded this was now museum property when I saw torpedo and ladle cars in the storage line.
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| safe_image for CSX makes $5 million gift to B&O Railroad Museum [I find it interesting that the museum is spending $30m on party spaces rather than equpment preservation. And converting the "nation's oldest, continuously operating railroad repair facilty" into a "new entryway to the museum." Has the museum lost its appeal and they have to build something that they think will bring back some foot traffic?] Michael Stillwagner shared |
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| Bill Rettberg Jr. posted What Mount Clare A yard looked like in 1965. This is west side of yard taken from Washington Blvd. When glancing at the east side of this place when heading north on I95, it is sickening to look at today. Jessica Lauren fraudulently posted Jay Charles: Today there isn't much left. 3 runner and 4 runner are still in service and used. But all the yard tracks in-between are locked out of service. Even the yard office got torn down a few months ago. Mt Winans yard is also out of service. All but 2 tracks have been torn out. And those 2 are locked and rarely used. There's not much left to Locust Point yard either. Gregory Sommers: Not 1965; GP40’s and cars without running boards, I’d guess 1970 or later. |
Contemporary view from Washington:
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| Street View, Aug 2023 |
View from an I-95 ramp:
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| Street View, Aug 2022 |
The car shop is near the upper-right corner and the Mont Clare A Yard is near the left side.
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| 1953 Baltimore West Quad @ 24,000 |
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