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Kilduff's
Train Station page is not intended as a
history of the old train stations in town,
simply as a look through several old
postcards and pictures to see what
Baltimore has to offer. Comments, as always,
are welcome.
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Mount Royal Station
The Mount Royal Station
has to be the most photographed train
station in Baltimore. Postcards can be
found of the old rail station for nearly
any year.
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The five
postcards seen below are only a sample
of the views taken of the old station over the
years. No longer used as a train station, the
building is now used as part of the Maryland
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Union
Station
Before Pennsylvania
Station, Baltimore's main line train station
was an older structure known as Union
Station. Union Station was torn down and the
current Penn Station was constructed at the
same site, and for a while the newer train
station went under the name of Union
Station, later being changed to the current
name. According to reports back in the day,
the old station made it difficult to get to
the trains, as you had to walk over the
tracks to get to the boarding platform.
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Pennsylvania
( Penn ) Station ( Opened as Union
Station )
1525 North Charles
Street
Built in 1911
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President Street
Station
Baltimore's oldest
passenger station. What you see below is all
that survives of the old station, which for
years sat vacant. The station opened as a
passenger station but in later years handled
freight only. Apparently , some of the old
station burned down in the 1980's .
The President
Street Station had sheds that extended East
and was later used as a freight station. The
area around the station is prime commerical
property today, but efforts were made to save
the remaining section of the train station.
Many years back, train sheds extended from the
rear of the building.
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 President Station
- Circa 2008
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Camden Station
Howard and Camden
Streets
1855 / 1867
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Calvert
Street Station
 Looking off the Orleans
Street Viaduct ( below ) , this " aerial "
view of the Calvert Street Station shows a
view that has completely changed today. The
Standard Oil building is stands today (
converted into Condos ) and of course the
Washington Monument is still there, but much
of the view, including the smaller houses on
Calvert Street have long been replaced. The
pictures below shows the same view , but
with the photographer on the ground this
time. Before the Calvert Street Station, the
site was reportedly a " Roman style "
Amphitheatre.
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 . .The end of the line
for the Calvert Street Station, torn down for the
Calvert Street Sunpapers building .
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Hillen Street
Station
Picture to the below is NOT the
old Hillen Street Station. It is close to the
area where the old train station once stood
and might have been part of the complex or a
warehouse used in relation to the train
station. The Hillen Street train Station was
torn down years ago and so far, I haven't been
able to find a picture to post.
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Oak Street
Station
Howard And
North Avenue
( Maryland and
Pennsylvania Railroad ) ( AKA Ma&Pa Railroad )
Razed for the
Howard Street Bridge
Kilduff's has
been working to locate and photo any surviving
MA&Pa Railroad Stations in the State of
Maryland.
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Ma and Pa Station, seen in the photo above was torn
down for the building of the Howard Street Bridge ,
the station was moved to a small structure under the
North Avenue Bridge. That structure is also long gone
and the site is now just filled with large rocks.
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Wyndhurst Station old the Maryland &
Pennsylvania RR Line - Greatly altered over the
years
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old the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR Line - Used as a
residence today - Next station on the line would
have been Woodbrook in Baltimore County - which
has been torn down.
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WB&A
(Washington,
Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad )
First
station below was on Liberty Street just south
of Lexington ( Seen in the postcard below )
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Postcard view of the old W B & A Station on the
Park Avenue side.
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postcard view of the old W B & A Station on Park
Avenue.
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building still stands today, used in later days as a
bank. There have been plans for development on the
block, I'm not sure how that's going to affect the
old station.
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the Liberty Street side of the building.
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station was built on Lombard Street at Howard
Street. That station was torn down years ago, and
the Holiday Inn with the revolving roof restaurant
was built there.
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view of the laterr station as seen from the street .
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 Postcard
below shows one of several stations for the W B
& A Railroad. Kilduffs is adding the surviving
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