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Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit university whose main campus is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. The oldest Catholic university in the United States, Georgetown administers 180 programs in four undergraduate schools, three graduate and professional schools, and several specialized institutes. The faculty and programs in international affairs and law are especially well regarded. Georgetown's three urban campuses are laid out using quadrangles and rectangular lawns, with various facilities for research, sports, housing, and services. The main campus is known for the neo-Romanesque style Healy Hall, a designated National Historic Landmark.
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On February 16, 1996 during a snow storm, an eastbound MARC local collided with Amtrak's westbound Capitol Limited which was crossing over from #2 to #1 track at Georgetown Jct on CSXT's Metropolitan Subdivision just outside of Washington DC. The crash occurred just ahead in this photograph taken a couple of months later in the springtime. In remembrance of the lives lost on that fateful day, a wooden cross, painted white, was installed on the Talbot St overpass later.
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The old county courthouse in Georgetown, Texas, with Christmas decorations Adorning it and the town square. Georgetown is the county seat of Williamson County, and sits near the geographic center of the county. Its population is about 20% of the largest town, which would be round Rock (pop. around 120,000). In spite of the small population it is a thriving town, and growing rapidly (as people flee the high cost of living in Austin).
CSX train E101-16 rolls west on the Metropolitan Subdivision at Georgetown Jct, MD. The tracks in the foreground were once the lead to B&O's Georgetown Branch, but by this time were cut back to serve a local industry located just below the junction.
On February 16, 1996, exactly 10 months after this photo was taken, Georgetown Jct would be the scene of a head-on collision between MARC train 286 and Amtrak train 29, the westbound Capitol Limited, in one of the more horrific railroad accidents of recent decades. This accident would see sweeping changes to railroad operating rules, many of which are now just part of the daily routine for railroaders in passenger service across the country.
But all of that is still in the future, and today we're just enjoying the sights and sounds of SD50s pulling coal cars back to the mines west of Cumberland on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in suburban Maryland.
Georgetown, on Clear Creek approx. thirty miles west of Denver, was founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. The town did not grow significantly until the discovery of silver further up the canyon on September 14, 1864. The town dwindled following the collapse of the Silver Boom in 1893, until the 1950s when the town began to experience a small renaissance and has only grown in importance over the years since, as a popular tourist destination.
This photo, taken on September 23, 2002, is from the Guanella Pass Road, which rises into the mountains to the south of town. The tower of historic Alpine Firehouse no. 2 is seen at the center of the photo.
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