Further to the previous post, here is a posed B&O publicity pic of their then new diesel-hauled train the Columbian (two eight–car streamlined trains equipped with dome cars [the "Strata-Dome"] which although intended as a daytime operation between Chicago and Baltimore by way of Washington, entered overnight service on 5 May 1949) on this bridge, which shows the 1894 and the 1930-31 bridges and the tunnel from 1894. This engineering, used today by CSX freight trains, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The station, a wooden frame Victorian style building, dating from 1889, is still in use by both Amtrak and the Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail and recently received a $2 million renovation.
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| One of the plans on this Library of Congress webpage |
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