B&O Gallery – The Washington Terminal Project

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O Passenger Train at Silver Spring, MD

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O Mikado Class No. 5050 departs Hyattsville, MD with a passenger train toward Union Station during the winter of 1948. Note the Capital Transit Branchville trolely line on the left and the wye for the Anacostia Branch on the right.

Most people think of the B&O services ending at Union Station in Washngton, D.C., but the B&O had trackage rights to Potomac Yard in Alexandria. This view was in Southwest Washington at the Washington Channel at 14th St as freights were toaken to Potomac Yard. To the right was the WPA produce market where SW Freeway and the Portal Building exist today. Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O Freight led by No. 4663 in the District of Columbia

B&O temporary track (installed during the Civil War) at the Western foot of Capitol Hill in Washington Dd.C. to cross the Mall and reach Maryland AVenue for eventual crossing of the Long Bridge at 14th St.Historic photos of railroading in Washington, D.C. area from Lee Rogers Photo Collection

Civil War Trackage

This is the freight yard of the B&O in Washington, D.C. known as Eckington Yard. During 1949 Inaugural the yard was converted to parking for Pullman passenger cars for use as hotel space.

Eckington Freight Yard of the B&O

1054 photo from the Lee Rogers Collection.

Historic B&O Railroad Marker at Relay, MD

This historic viaduct across the Patuxent River was completed by the B&O railroad in 1835 and was supposed to last just ten years. It is still in service today carrying heavy freight and passenger trains. Circa 1954 photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

Thomas Viaduct at Relay, Md

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection

B&O Mikado No 4156 at Hyattsville, MD May 1948

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

Northbound B&O Passenger Train between Laurel and Beltsville - U.S. 1 is on the right.

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection

Southbound B&O Passenger Train between Laurel and Beltsville circa 1948

Victorian era College Park Station. Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

College Park, MD B&O Station

Hyattsville, MD B&O Station looking south. Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

Hyattsville, Maryland Depot

This was the first station on the B&O as your crossed from Maryland to the District of Columbia on the Capital Subdivision.

B&O Station at Landgon, in the District of Columbia

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O University Park Station at Catholic University Campus - in District of Columbia - Michigan Avenue Bridge Passes overhead

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O Station at Takoma Park, in the District. Train is headed toward Silver Spring

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

B&O Local between Takoma Park and the District Line on a cold winter day.

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

Diesel No 87 on the wye below the Brentwood Road Bridge

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection.

Inbound B&O Train passes F Tower after World War II

Photo from Lee Rogers Collection

B&O equipment at Eckington Yard during an inaugural

Photo by Lee Rogers

B&O Station at Brentwood in the District of Columbia

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