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| Marty Sharrow posted Once Upon a Time Baltimore, namely the Western Maryland car yard at Port Covington. This 1952 photo was taken by the skillful photojournalist A. Aubrey Bodine, who took photographs for the Baltimore Sun for fifty years. Western Maryland’s Port Covington, 95 acre yard featured coal and ore piers, an enormous grain terminal, and the capacity to store over 100,000 tons of freight. Additionally, Port Covington could hold several thousand freight cars and accommodate more than a half dozen ocean vessels along its riverfront piers. In 1973 the railway became part the Chessie System. Fifteen years later this once bustling rail yard would be shuttered. Mark Wallace: Bodine's photos were featured in many Western Maryland Rwy publications in this time frame too. Caboose and MOW tracks to the left and off to the right of the bridge above. Empty hoppers to the right for return to the mines. |
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| Western Maryland Railway Historical Society Inc posted Western Maryland Railway GP9 number 34 is seen working the coal yard at Port Covington in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 1975. Another GP9 sits idle waiting for work. Bill Hopkins photo Steven Ford: WM-6 train on the far left. The coal cars are loaded with imported coke, WM ran lots of coke and iron ore out of Port Covington back then. Erik Morton shared Optimized coal port, Port Covington was part of Baltimore Harbor. Ken Heitzenrater: My great, great grandfather landed in Baltimore in 1834 on a wooden sailing ship. Looks like order to left of engine, order to the right of the engine and stuck in the middle with mayhem...Is exported coal still going out of this port? |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Ken's comment No I think coal is still handled at the former Pennsy docks. 1953 Baltimore East Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 Ken Heitzenrater: Coal production is almost non existent here in Jefferson County PA though some is evidently moving out of Clearfield County as R.J. Corman is still active there. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Eric's share Scroll down in: Note the roundhouse in the lower-right corner. |
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| Jack Bobby Lou Mulreavy posted a photo |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Jack's photo This would be looking South across the roundhouses of the B&O Riverside Yard and the WM Port Covington Yard. The eastern roundhouse has been torn down, but the western one is still intact. I noticed that one of the piers has coal loaders on both sides of the pier. |
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