Here's Your Cement!
Working inside the wye where Conrail’s Pope’s Creek Secondary meets the Northeast Corridor, a Conrail local switches cars at a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland. Behind the concrete plant is the trusswork structure of an Amtrak electrical substation serving the local catenary. To the far right is the north/east leg of the wye, where coal trains for the Chalk Point and Morgantown generating stations leave the NEC, usually under cover of darkness. Directly down the sight line of the north wye track id the Bowie MARC station, Today, the cement silo and its sidings are gone, and the MARC station closed in 1989.
Here's Your Cement!
Working inside the wye where Conrail’s Pope’s Creek Secondary meets the Northeast Corridor, a Conrail local switches cars at a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland. Behind the concrete plant is the trusswork structure of an Amtrak electrical substation serving the local catenary. To the far right is the north/east leg of the wye, where coal trains for the Chalk Point and Morgantown generating stations leave the NEC, usually under cover of darkness. Directly down the sight line of the north wye track id the Bowie MARC station, Today, the cement silo and its sidings are gone, and the MARC station closed in 1989.