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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]
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 ...
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
Howard Street Tunnel, rail tunnel, c.1895, CSX ... Road tunnels connected to the Big Dig project in Boston: Callahan Tunnel/Sumner Tunnel, twin tunnels, ...
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Before the subway, McDonald had made a name for himself on other rail projects, including a challenging project in the early 1890s tunneling underneath downtown Baltimore to bring the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to the Baltimore Harbor. [1] The so-called Howard Street Tunnel is still in use by freight trains. [6]
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.