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The Bowie Railroad Buildings comprise three small frame structures at the former Bowie train station, located at the junction of what is now the Northeast Corridor and the Pope's Creek Subdivision in the town center of Bowie, Maryland. The complex includes a single-story freight depot, a two-story interlocking tower, and an open passenger shed. [4]
Bowie (/ ˈ b uː i /) is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [3] Per the 2020 census, the population was 58,329. [4] Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County, and the fifth most populous city [5] and third largest city by area in the U.S. state of Maryland.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) opened its main line in 1872, with a station at Bowie but not at Jericho Park. [6] The B&P was merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1902. [ 7 ] The PRR opened Jericho Park station, located at the modern station site, to serve the Maryland Normal and Industrial School (the predecessor to Bowie ...
The Bowie interlocking tower, no longer operational, has been restored and is part of the Huntington Railroad Museum. The Pope's Creek Subdivision is a CSX Transportation railroad line in Maryland, running from Bowie to the Morgantown Generating Station in Morgantown, Maryland. [1]
Maryland and Delaware Railroad: Delaware and Maryland Railroad: PRR: 1832 1836 Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad: PRR: 1883 1956 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad: Dorchester and Delaware Railroad: PRR: 1866 1883 Cambridge and Seaford Railroad: East Washington Railway: 1935 1976 N/A ...
The following year, in 1975, Maryland DOT began funding operations on the Conrail-owned Northeast Corridor, whose ownership was transferred to Amtrak in 1983. Following a marketing study in 1984, the Maryland-funded commuter rail service was branded as MARC (Maryland Area Rail Commuter). [3]
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MD 450 Old (officially MD 450B) in Bowie. MD 450 has six auxiliary routes. MD 450A is in Lanham; the remainder are in Bowie. MD 450A is the designation for an unnamed 0.20-mile (0.32 km) segment of the old alignment of MD 450 that parallels the westbound direction of the highway at its intersection with MD 704 in Lanham.