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These are live tracks, but they're at the Point of Rocks MARC station, and this was a cross-over point for foot traffic. I looked both ways and shot quickly.
C&O Canal Trail near Point of Rocks, Maryland in Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
Commuters head to the parking lot after disembarking off of a westbound MARC train featuring a modern SC-44 Charger in Point of Rocks, Maryland.
The daylight helper extra crew from Brunswick yard is being relieved by the B867 local crew on the evening of March 13, 2018 at Point Of Rocks, MD on the Old Main Line Subdivision. Today's power is leased CEFX 1032 and a Union Pacific GE. In the background are the signals for "Satterwhite" which protect the interlocking with the east leg of the wye. Nikon F, 135mm lens, Fujichrome RDP-100.
Een reizigerstrein van de Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) van Brunswick naar Washington (D.C.), die geduwd wordt door diesellocs (MARC No. 85 en MARC No. 73) tijdens de stop naast het historische stationsgebouw in Point of Rocks. 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 (links) en Washington D.C.
A morning MARC train destined for Washington (D.C.) with engines #85 and #73 in push mode stop at the historic Baltimore & Ohio station at Point of Rocks, MD.
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 last commuter train of the morning, P880, knocks down the Point of Rocks signals, moments away from picking up commuters.
On Sept 24th,1988 SD50 8579 leaves the original B&O main at Point of Rocks, MD. It was CSX by this date, but they had yet to ruin everything.
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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4/2021 - Point of Rocks, MD
On the way back home I stopped at Point of Rocks to show dad the neat station there. We saw some CSX local coming off the Metro sub and head west on the Cumberland Cub.
The familiar feeling of a late summer evening welcomed me in Point of Rocks on August 9th. Golden hour was in full effect by the time the YN2 #210 passed the old depot leading a rock train, a very pleasant surprise.
The "eye spots" are missing from this Tiger Swallowtail. Some bird got a bill full of scales.....seems like a very successful adaptation.
As the night turns to day, a MARC commuter train transitions from the Old Main Line to the Metropolitan Subdivision at Point of Rock, pushing morning commuters from Frederick to Washington.
Originating in Martinsburg, WV, MARC P878 rounds the bend while slowing for a stop to pick up morning commuters at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
"Point Of Rocks", Image size, 14 x 20 inches. This is a painting by Harry Richardson of a well-known railroad station near Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Point of Rocks Station was designed in the 1870s by Baltimore architect E. Francis Baldwin in the Victorian Gothic Revival style. Here along the Potomac River just south of Brunswick, Md., the Baltimore rail line merges with the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio system.
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Still in Chessie pait, GP40 6544 leads a repanited sibling past the old B&O signal & depot at Point of Rocks, MD
Commuters from a severe weather delayed MARC train, depart and cross the tracks to their waiting vehicles.
This stop on our field trip was to look at the 7 ash and sediment deposits of the late Eocene Bell Top formation.
Too much geology, however, usually results in yawns, blank stares, and in this case, flipping to next photo on your Flickr stream.
So, instead, I will point out some historical features in this photograph while Dr. Mack lectures on the Bell Top (it was a really good lecture!).
Our cars and vans are parked just above the Panama hat on the gentleman on the right side of photograph (by the way, I have known him since elementary school). Two low hills separate the cars from the famous Jornada del Muerto. The Jornada has a very long and interesting history that stretches all the way back to the Conquistadores of the 1500's. The mountains on the left horizon are the Caballo Mountains and the Rio Grande river flows just on the other side of them.
The river makes a jog to the west and the Jornada represented a slightly shorter route from the El Paso de Norte (El Paso in Texas) to the capital of Nuevo Mexico, Santa Fe. Most caravans would stock up on food, water, and feed and head up the flat Jornada, which has none of these items. I would have just kept by the river and arrived a little later. Point of Rocks was a landmark on the route.
There are several versions of how this flat basin got its name and what the name actually translates to. North of here is a very small community named Aleman. It is supposedly named for a German immigrant who was fleeing the Inquisition and died in this harsh desert in the late 1700's. The northern end of the Jornada ususlly was the Pueblo and surrounding community that the Spanish named Socorro which translates to "aid" or "assistance". I am surprised it wasn't named "Gracias de Dios".
Linkin Park wrote a song/introduction named "Jornada del Muerto" that was included on their "Thousand Suns" album because the Trinity site is located at the northern end of the Jornada.
The newest chapter in the history of the Jornada is the construction of the Virgin Galactic Spaceport just north of the Point of Rocks. Let's just hope that it doesn't live up to the "Muerto" moniker...
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PS The geologic map under Dr. Mack's arm covers the area seen in the previous photograph.