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MARC MP36 #23 pulls train P875 west out of the station at Point Of Rocks, MD, August 31, 2017. Next stop, Brunswick.
Completed in 1837, Lockhouse 28 stands as a reminder of the fierce competition between the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the race to reach the Ohio River Valley. At Point of Rocks the land between the Potomac River and the rocky outcropping becomes precariously narrow. Both companies knew ownership of this strip of land was imperative to winning the race to the Ohio. Adversaries in the courts for four years, both canal and railroad were given rights-of-way, with the C&O Canal allowed to build next to the river, and the B&O Railroad forced to carve its way through the hillside just above the canal.
Today, Lockhouse 28 is a rustic retreat, situated between the scenic Potomac and the still-active railroad tracks. It is the most remote of the Canal Quarters lockhouses, located nearly 1/2 mile from the nearest parking area.
Information from: www.canaltrust.org/programs/canal-quarters/canal-quarters...
A MARC IV cab car leads train 880 into Point of Rocks station. Train 880 is the last MARC train of the morning, & the station will be empty again until the evening rush begins.
Loco Info:
MARC 26 (MP36PH-3C): Built new
MARC 72 (rblt GP39H-2): ex-CR GP40 3243, PC 3243
MARC GP39H-2 leans into the curve on the east leg of the wye at Point Of Rocks, MD, March 13, 2018. Nikon F, Fomapan 100.
Colfax County, New Mexico, County Road C-52, looking north toward a spot on the Santa Fe Trail called Point of Rocks.
This Eastern Ratsnake (Pantherophis sp. probably alleghaniensis) was a bit unhappy with me, three other people and two dogs that had gathered around it. The snake was sunning on the tow-path at the C&O Canal National Historical Park. There were plenty of bicycles using the path and I was worried about the snake getting run over. The snake was not pleased at being moved, but finally was persuaded to slither down hill away from the threat of bicycles. Point-of-Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland.
Carte de visite by W.H. Emery, Point of Rocks, Va. Three women stand in front of a log cabin heated by a brick chimney and covered by a canvas roof. The album page into which this image was inserted is inscribed in ink: "Mrs. Lydia White head quarters during the war." The page also incudes a prominent X on the right side, indicating that Mrs. White stands opposite the two unidentified ladies wearing dark-colored dresses and hats.
Born Lydia Keasby Waddington in Salem County, N.J., she grew up in the Quaker faith and married Jonathan Smith White in the 1840s. Jonathan died in 1855, leaving Lydia a widow with a six-year-old daughter, Gertrude. At some point after the war began, she volunteered as an army nurse to care for wounded and sick soldiers. Sister nurse and Salem County resident Cornelia Hancock noted, "I have no doubt Lydia White is doing a great deal of good."
Some of her good works were performed at the Point of Rocks Hospital, located along the Appomattox River southeast of Richmond, Va., and near the sprawling Union base at City Point. During the Siege of Vicksburg in 1864, Lydia, pictured here at her "headquarters," reported to the Superintendent of Nurses, Clara Barton.
Lydia survived her war experience and returned to New Jersey, where she died in 1900 at age 81.
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A westbound manifest led by SD40-2 #8405 glides past the depot at Point of Rocks, MD on January 28, 2006. The 8405 was manufactured by EMD in July 1966 as an SD40 for the Chesapeake & Ohio and carried number 7454. It was rebuilt to SD40-2 specs in the late 1980s or early 1990s and renumbered to 8405 upon rebuild. It has since been rebuilt to an SD40-3 carrying number 4324 with a new cab.
That ADA shed is very ill-placed in my opinion.
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Shot this on the way into work this morning. The sun had just come up, and the fog was floating up over the river into the colder air just about it. I was very happy that I had my Canon s100 P&S camera with me, as I would have missed this.
CSX light Helpers head west from the Baltimore line to Brunswick. The line on the right leads to Washington and is a MARC commuter line
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With the new passengers tucked away, P874 throttles up at Point of Rocks, MD as he hustles eastbound towards Washington D.C.
Point of Rocks
Frederick County, Maryland
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Het Point of Rocks Railroad Station is in 1873 gebouwd door de Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Het stationsgebouw is een ‘National Landmark’ en ligt in de splitsing van de spoorlijnen naar Baltimore en Washington D.C. Point of Rocks ligt in de staat Maryland. Van en naar Washington (rechtsaf op de foto) rijden ook reizigerstreinen van AMTRAK en MARC (Brunswick Line).
The Point of Rocks Railroad Station was built 1873 by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It is an historic passenger railroad station and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Point of Rocks station is a historic passenger rail station located at Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland. The station was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873 and designed by E. Francis Baldwin in the Victorian-Gothic Revival architectural style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. NRHP 73000918. This is a vertical panorama composed of 20 bracketed exposures. There's a poster-like quality to this image that emphasizes the geometric elements of the station's design.
Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station at junction of CSX Transportation main lines in Point of Rocks, Maryland, on April 5, 1990. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2015, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Bjorklund-44-10-14
The Frederick local, D786, runs down track 1 at Point of Rocks, Maryland as he prepares to make his switch over to the Old Main Line just around the bend. Although tunnel work for the National Gateway Project hasn't started yet, prep work can be seen nearby, signaling that the time is nearing.
MARC P873 makes a station stop at Point Of Rocks, MD on March 16, 2017. The afternoon rush hour has begun for this is the first westbound train out of Washington Union Station today.