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Robert L Cole posted
Another Post Card I have in my collection, An artist rendition of the B&O Passenger Station Frederick Maryland. Post card is circa early 1900's.
Michael David Wasiljov: Still there and looks pretty much the same. It's used for social services now I believe. |
Jashua Chapman
posted five images with the comment:
Old Frederick Station
On my way home from Scranton PA on 6/18/26, I made a stop in Frederick, Maryland to see the old former Frederick B&O Railroad station, and found it. Still standing, now as the Department of Housing and Human Services.
This 1854 building replaced the original 1831 depot. [
TrainOrders]
By "replace," do they mean the land was reused, or do they mean it was functionally replaced by a depot in a new location? If the land was reused, then this must have been a freight house because the date is 1906, over a half century after the "new" depot was built.
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LC-USZ62-52635, c1906
B&O railroad depot, the oldest one in the U.S., Frederick, Md. |
The B&O branch to Frederick terminated at this depot.
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Note the historical marker in the lower-right corner of this view.
That marker explains:
At this intersection, President Abraham Lincoln spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents assembled in the streets on October 4, 1862. He had just returned from viewing the battlefields of South Mountain and Antietam and had called on Gen. George L. Hartsuff who was recuperating here from a wound suffered at Antietam. Lincoln was about to board a train for Washington. “I return thanks to our soldiers for the good services they have rendered, the energy they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have shed for this Union of ours,” he said. “And also return thanks, not only to the soldiers, but to the good citizens of Frederick, and to the good men, women, and children in this land of ours, for their devotion to this glorious cause; and I say this with no malice in my heart toward those who have done otherwise. May our children and children’s children, for a thousand generations, continue to enjoy these benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under these glorious institutions, bequeathed to us by Washington and his compeers.”
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Robert L Cole posted
Andrew Roberts: That is actually #4441 taking water at Frederick Junction. Headed westbound. |
MARC Depot
RE Pearce
posted two photos with the comment: "The modern Frederick Station opened on December 17, 2001, at 100 South East Street, near the south end of the Carroll Creek bridge in downtown Frederick. Built on the site of the original branch terminus, it was designed by architects to evoke 19th-century B&O depots, featuring brickwork, gabled roofs, and historical motifs for a nod to the past. Costing millions in state funds, it serves as the northern terminus of the MARC (Maryland Area Rail Commuter) Brunswick Line, providing weekday service to Union Station in Washington, D.C. (about 1.5–2 hours away). The station includes accessible platforms, ticket vending, and parking for 200+ vehicles."
Steve Cooperstein: I'd say technically it's the northern terminus of the Frederick Spur (or branch) of the Brunswick Line. The termini of the Brunswick Line are Martinsburg, WV and/or Brunswick, MD, while the Frederick Spur Line trains make a very squeaky right turn from the Metropolitan Subdivision to the OML just east of Point of Rocks.
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