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According to The Washington Post, the Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel, built in 1873, is "the biggest chokepoint between Washington and New Jersey." According to The Washington Post, the Baltimore ...
Biden will travel to Baltimore on Jan. 30 to speak on how funding from the law will replace the 150-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which will “address the… Biden to tout infrastructure ...
The project included construction of four tunnels, two bridges, and many deep rock cuts. [5] The B&O continued to use the original route along the Potomac River, called the "Lowline," until 1961. [6] In 1987 the subdivision and the rest of the B&O system were merged into CSX.
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 ...
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The Howard Street Tunnel, originally a 1.4-mile (2.3 km) long tunnel under Howard Street in downtown Baltimore, took four and a half years to build (1890–1895) and was the longest tunnel on the B&O's system. [6] Its construction cost $7 million (equivalent to more than $200 million in 2018) and required 2,400 workers. [7]