Freight House: (Satellite)
The depot is on the left, and the freight house is on the right.
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| Street View, Jul 2024 |
RE Pearce posted three photos with the comment: "Gaithersburg station is a commuter rail station located on the Metropolitan Subdivision in downtown Gaithersburg, Maryland. It is served by the MARC Brunswick Line service; it was also served by Amtrak from 1971 to 1986. The former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station building and freight shed, designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin and built in 1884, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Gaithersburg B & O Railroad Station and Freight Shed. They are used as the Gaithersburg Community Museum."
Thomas Dunne shared
James Churchill: There used to be a wye across the tracks there where the Georgetown pusher locomotives were turned to go back towards DC.
If one stands along the Metropolitan Subdivision, say at Silver Spring Metro, they can hear 3 or 4 locomotives pulling hard towards the west and the whine of dynamic brakes going down.
There is about a 100 foot rise in altitude just between DC and Gaithersburg so in essence that work is raising those massive trains that height in a relatively short distance.
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The museum has a steam locomotive, caboose and passenger car.
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| Street View, Oct 2022 [It was a C&O caboose.] |
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