Baltimore, MD: 1840s B&O Locust Point Railyard, 1923 Largest Grain Elevator and Railcar Ferry

Railyard: (Satellite, the tracks have been replaced by warehouses.)

Elevator: (Satellite)

Ferry: (Satellite)

What CSX now calls Locust Point Railyard was B&O's Riverside Railyard, and it was West of here. This yard supported B&O's docks, grain elevator and ferry operations.

Marty Sharrow posted three images with the comment: "Once Upon a Time Baltimore viz., a 1923 aerial view showing the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Locust Point Grain Terminal Elevator. Located on the shoreline of the northwest branch of the Patapsco River, the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Locust Point Grain Elevator was at the time of its opening the largest and fastest grain elevator in the world. What is more, this enormous facility with its interconnected 220'- tall, 15-story concrete workhouse and 105'- tall concrete grain bin structure, had a capacity of 3,800,000 bushels of grain. For many years, the Locust Point Grain Terminal, with its prime location adjacent to rail lines and a deep-water harbor, played a consequential role in Baltimore’s export market."

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I had never noticed Fort McHenry before. That is why I included it in this image.

EarthExplorer: Feb 21, 1966 @ 24,000; AR1VBLA00020058

I zoomed in on the conveyor that supports their grain-loading docks.

Digitally Zoomed

It appears that someone built condos in the headhouse and around the silos.

Kyle Shay (Realtor), Aug 2023

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This elevator replaced three wooden elevators that were on the piers because some of them were destroyed by a fire on July 2, 1922. 
"The grain business peaked in Baltimore in the 1950s, then steadily declined as grain elevators began to disappear along the East Coast....B&O sold the Locust Point elevator in 1967, but it continued operations until 2001 when a storm caused the collapse of Pier 7 and the conveyor system. It was only a few months later that developer Patrick Turner began pursuing purchase of the obsolete facility, the sale of which ultimately resulted in the development of the 24-story, 228-unit Silo Point condominium complex."

B&O had several transfer bridges in the Baltimore Harbor for car float or ferry operations. This is the remnant of the one that was in Locust Point.

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"Ellis Island in New York harbor is well known as the main entry point for European immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What many do not know is that Baltimore was the second-leading port of entry at that time. The establishment of the nation's first commercial steam railway, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in 1828 opened the way to the West. As the westernmost major port on the East Coast, Baltimore was a popular destination. Irish and German settlers were the first to use Baltimore as a point of entry. Their tide increased after the Irish potato famine of the mid-1840s and the German political uprisings of 1848. The number became so great that after 1850, immigrants were no longer brought directly to Fell's Point, Baltimore's first port. Instead, they were unloaded at Locust Point, next to Fort McHenry....The situation for immigrants became even easier in 1867, when the B&O signed an agreement with the North German Lloyd Steamship Line, allowing passengers to purchase a single ticket that would carry them across the Atlantic and then west by train. The first steamer, the Baltimore, arrived in 1868, carrying passengers and German manufactured goods. It returned to Europe with Maryland tobacco and lumber."