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The Howard Street Tunnel fire (also known as the Baltimore Freight Rail Crash) was a 60-car CSX Transportation freight train derailment that occurred in the Howard Street Tunnel, a freight through-route tunnel under Howard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 18, 2001. The derailment sparked a chemical fire that raged for five or six days and ...
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]
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Howard Street Tunnel: 1895 1984 CSX Baltimore Terminal Subdivision: Howard Street Baltimore: Independent city MD-15: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Point of Rocks Tunnel: 1971 CSX Old Main Line Subdivision
This new route entered the long Howard Street Tunnel at Camden Station, running north under downtown, and then turning east through two shorter tunnels to a junction with the Philadelphia Branch at Bay View Yard. The Baltimore Belt Line was completed in 1895, and its expenses drove the B&O to bankruptcy in 1896.
An explosion at a CSX facility in South Baltimore Thursday morning sent police and fire department officials scrambling to Curtis Bay and shook residents in neighborhoods across the city.
In the downtown area, a tunnel owned by CSX Transportation runs below Howard Street. This tunnel was first proposed in the 1880s and built in the 1890s as part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
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Howard Street Tunnel, rail tunnel, c.1895, CSX (formerly Baltimore and Ohio Railroad), Baltimore Ilchester Tunnel , rail tunnel, c. 1903, CSX (formerly Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ), east of Ellicott City