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The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum .
National Capital Trolley Museum moved to its present site in Colesville, Maryland, while the Baltimore Streetcar Museum was formed to focus on Baltimore transit. The site was provided by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission , and DC Transit leased trolleys for a nominal cost. [ 4 ]
The railroad depot structures in Old Bowie are rare survivors of the numerous early 20th century railway stations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. [4] The buildings were reopened as the Huntington Railroad Museum, later the Bowie Railroad Museum, a small railway museum maintained by the city government.
Marion Station Railroad Museum: Marion: Somerset: Eastern Shore: Railway: Maryland Dove: St. Mary's City: St. Mary's: Southern: Maritime: Re-creation of a late-17th-century trading ship Maryland State House: Annapolis: Anne Arundel: Central: State capitol: Oldest state capitol in continuous legislative use, dating to 1772 Maryland Veterans ...
American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006 [8] [9] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore - closed in 2012 [10] [11] B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association [12] Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997)
The Maryland Park Service and the National Park Service jointly provided funding to construct the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center. On the same date, the State of Maryland unveiled the 125-mile (201 km) Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Scenic Byway , a route along an existing system of county, state, and federal roads which ...
The third floor consists of an HO scale model railroad layout depicting the B&O Railroad's Metropolitan line (the MET) from Washington, DC to Brunswick, Maryland in the late 1950s. [7] The model also includes the Brunswick classification yards , which were completed in 1907 and measured 5 miles (8.0 km) long, the largest and most modern in the ...
Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Museum, Inc. was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit historic preservation advocacy organization in Frederick County, Maryland. The organization has two volunteer board members and a host of volunteers who work to preserve and promote Frederick County's historic buildings, sites and neighborhoods.