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| Darren Reynolds posted Point of rocks Maryland station and Tower(KG) The tower was closed in the mid-50s when they put CTC the interlocking.. [Note the signaling pipelines in the right foreground.] Randall Hampton shared Darren Reynolds posted David Andrew Wieting: That makes since as even now, the Met Sub tracks go into the OML alignment, as if the OML was still the primary route. B&O never could decide which one really was the true mainline and CSX maintains the duality today. Agnes almost made the decision for B&O but using Chessie's coal money they rebuilt it, and eventually restored the CTC. I have many times seen the helpers come back from Barnesville grade and have to negotiate the crossovers at ROCKS, twisting like a couple of sockhop dancers. To this day ROCKS is laid out for the OML. |
This junction is where the new main line joined the old, or original, main line.
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| Baltimore & Ohio Ellicott City Station Museum posted via Dennis DeBruler |
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| Marty Bernard posted B&O Point of Rocks Station, MD summer 1978, Bill Howes photo. Thomas Dorman: E. Francis Baldwin, architect. Ray Shaw: Windows now "boarded up". I peeked inside before this. Sorry interior is not "restored" and available for passengers, as is the station in Harper's Ferry. I understand "why not", but I remain sad. Marty Bernard shared Robert Bufkin: The Point of Rocks station is one of the US stamps. |
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| Marty Bernard posted B&O-Chessie Point of Rocks Station, MD winter 1983, Bill Howes photo. |
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Chris Ness postedPoint of RocksPoint of Rocks, Maryland station. Now CSX, it was Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. The line to the left goes to Baltimore. The one to the right is the line to Washington. 03/04 [2021] David Coldren: A classic. Right on the oldest US mainline. I hear it’s not in great condition these days. No passenger waiting room. Just offices for the CSX maintenance department. Think I better get some pics! |
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| Edward Bluebaugh posted Rick Hahn: Now on US Stamp. |
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| Matt Clumac posted Maryland Department of Transportation F9PH #7185 at the Point of Rocks Station in Point of Rocks, MD on April 23rd, 1985. It was originally built for the Baltimore and Ohio as an F7 in 1952 as #4590. In 1980, #4190 was sold to Maryland Department of Transportation and was rebuilt an F9PH and renumbered #7185. In 1984, #7185 was sold to MARC but kept its MDOT paint scheme. In 1989 the locomotive was renumbered #85 and was finally repainted in MARC livery. In 1996, #85 was sold to the St. Louis Car Company to pull excursions and was renumbered #102. In 2005, #102 was sold to the Railroad Passenger Car Numbering Bureau and was renumbered #1020. In late 2005, #1020 was sold to Kansas City Southern and operated a few excursions in 2006. Shortly after being purchased by KCS, #1020 was sold to the Norfolk Southern to pull excursion trains and was renumbered #4271. On March 21st, 2019, #4271 was renumbered #271. In 2020, #271 was sold to the Aberdeen, Carolina and Western where it pulls excursions today. (C) Joe Osciak. David Andrew Wieting: Those MARC cars are very likely former PRR Budd built roomette cars comverted to coaches by PRR for the expected influx of travelers for the NY Worlds Fair in 1964. They were later in NY&LB commuter service and then taken over by NJ Transit. When the electrification was extended to Long Branch in 1983, the GG1s, Budd Coaches and E8s were all retired. The coaches then went to MARC. Some operate on the B&O RR Museum, others ended up in storage on the WMSRR. Two were restored into parlor cars and received late era PRR markings, and were participants in the N&W J 611 excursions between Lynchburg and Petersburg in the years immediately after 611's return to service. Since the implementation of PTC and the freezing out of most mainline excursions, these two coaches have been recently transferred to new owners and have moved to Indiana. |
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| 1953 Point Of Rocks Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Mugunth Ragunathan, Sep 2020 |
This photo also has a CSX truck in the background.
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| Mdean.finley, Jun 2021 |
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| Phil, Apr 2021 |
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| Clear Signal NOVA posted On a beautiful spring afternoon, Amtrak's capital limited rolls past the historic station in Point of Rocks, Maryland on its eastbound journey from Chicago to Washington, DC. Point of Rocks is located at the junction of the original Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Mainline from Baltimore (to the right) and the Metropolitan Subdivision from Washington, DC (to the left). Today, it is the modern junction of the CSX Old Main Line Subdivision and Metropolitan Subdivision. According to the Wikipedia on the station: The main station building is a 2+1⁄2-story, triangular Gothic Revival with a four-story tower and a 1+1⁄2-story wing at the base. The tower has a pyramidal roof containing a dormer on each side. On top is a square cupola supporting a pyramidal peaked roof.[6] The station building itself is not open to the public and is used by CSX as storage and offices for maintenance of way crews. In 2008, new platforms and platform shelters were built for MARC commuters traveling east towards Washington DC, replacing older bus shelter–style structures which were erected in the mid-1990s. During the blizzard of 2010, the south side awning on the main building collapsed under the weight of record snow fall, and was later removed, leaving half the building missing cover. In January 2011, work to rebuild the destroyed part of the structure began. The Point of Rocks Railroad Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973,[4] and reopened for the Maryland Rail Commuter Service, now called MARC, which established the Brunswick Line. |
Point of Rocks Train Station posted four photos with the comment:
Today 30 June 2022.The station looks so much betterAll the window new plywood has been painted black.Not the original look, but I thank CSX for trying to make the boarding up look better, and same time reduce the vandalism to the most photographed train station in America.Yes, we do believe that 100%
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