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The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel (or B&P Tunnel) is a double-tracked, masonry arch railroad tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, just west of Pennsylvania Station. Opened in 1873, the tunnel is used by about 140 Amtrak and MARC passenger trains and two freight trains every day, as of 2008.
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in an 1875 advertisement in Boyd's Directory. The leading advocate for expanding the railroad system into southern Maryland was Walter Bowie, who wrote newspaper articles and columns under the pen name Patuxent Planter and who joined Thomas Fielder Bowie, William Duckett Bowie, and Oden Bowie (later Governor of Maryland), in lobbying the Maryland General Assembly ...
The B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic site where a set of railroad bridges, originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, span the Potomac River between Sandy Hook, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
According to The Washington Post, the Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel, built in 1873, is "the biggest chokepoint between Washington and New Jersey."
Built in 1873, the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel was hailed at the time as an engineering marvel. It connected Washington, D.C., to Baltimore by rail and allowed farmers from Maryland to bring ...
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Tunnel 1894 1970 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Elk Ridge: Maryland Heights: Washington: MD-21: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Ilchester Tunnel: 1903 1971 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad