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You also pronounce murikurk as murr-i-kirk

I think most of the jessup ridership gets taken up by savage because it has more parking and has better bus connections to the rta

Metro taught me that Independence Day in DC is a nice thing to celebrate once and never again because oh my god its so crowded lol

CSX has a huge rail yard that begins immediately to the south of the Jessup stop. It’s a CSX employee that accounts for the one singular user 💀

You surely didn’t expect a more substantial station at such a small hamlet ?!!! Great trains on the MARC system, and I wish you had shown the loco ! Enjoyable video !

Why don't they close the station. ? Ludicrous. P.s. live near Bangor me

Great video. I enjoyed watching the adventure.

Jessup station used to get more action until they built the Dorsey station. I'm surprised it hasn't been closed. That is the site of the state prison.

Go Hokies!

You should consider working for Amtrak your enthusiasm for trains will land you a great career

Mur kirk

I grew up using the 70 Bus in my Neighborhood

Yup, College Park Airport is indeed the world's oldest continuously operated airport! It was established by the United States Army Signal Corps to serve as a training location for Wilbur Wright to instruct two military officers to fly in the government's first airplane. The airport's first plane was a Wright Model A biplane, uncrated and assembled there in October of that year. Civilian operations began as early as December 1911. In 1909, Wilbur taught Lieutenant Frederic Humphreys, who became the first military pilot to solo in a government airplane, and in October that year, Mrs. Ralph Henry Van Deman became the first woman to fly in a powered aircraft in the US! The Camden Line is interesting in that it's one of the US's oldest rail routes still in operation as the B&O began running commuter service from Baltimore to Ellicott City (Ellicott City station closed but is the oldest remaining passenger railway station in the US) over part of the trackage in May 1830, as you briefly mentioned! The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the US! Not to mention the B&O's Washington Branch Railway, now along the Camden Line, was the first railroad to serve DC! The Washington Branch roughly followed the route of the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike, now Baltimore Avenue. The Washington Branch had stations at Laurel and Bladensburg (what's now Hyattsville; the Camden Line station closed in the 1980s) stations, there were stations built at Paint Branch (now College Park station), the cluster of turnpike inns that became Beltsville at Powder Mill Road, (no longer a station), and an iron furnace called Muirkirk. Jessup is located near the site of the historic Spurrier's Tavern, a farm and tavern located on the post road between Baltimore and Washington (Route One) where George Washington traveled regularly. It was originally named Pierceland, but the area was eventually became Jessup's Cut (which was later shorted to Jessups and finally Jessup) a post village on the B&O. It was named after Jonathan Jessup, a civil engineer who worked on the B&O and the hand-dug "cut" though Merrill's Ridge he managed as a project. The crews took over 200,000 tons of clay from the clay hill that blocked the trains in freezing weather. The clay was turned into bricks by some of the prisoners from the Maryland Penitentiary who also worked on the Maryland House of Corrections when it was being built. The prison closed in 2007, and was referred to several times in the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the HBO series The Wire. Even though the maximum-security prison is now closed, the town still houses a major minimum-security prison, Brockbridge Correctional Facility. Jessup contains many warehouse delivery facilities due to its geographically central location, which is also why it's home to the Maryland Food Center, which includes the Maryland Produce Market and the Maryland Seafood Market.

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I've always been surprised that MARC doesn't stop at Havre de Grace

most excited anyone's ever been to go to Jessup /j /lh

My my they got proper buses now?

The only thing I know about Jessup is Giant (Landover) has a their Warehouse there. So thank you Jessup for supplying us DMVers with the goodies 🫡 . Also great seeing you and Andy back again with another awesome vid!

I was kinda expecting St. Denis to be the least used station. They have the exact same platform and fence as Jessup but they do have a shelter (an old wooden one). It was a great railfan spot but they recently decided to prohibit anyone from entering the platform outside of operating hours (couple hours in the morning and a couple hours in the evening) and weekends which really annoyed me and the regular railfanners who had been going there for around 25 years.

This station is the best station to go rail fanning stop all the time to fan the 101

I like all your content, but I like this "adventure" style content!

I’m deeply curious why Jessup station continues to exist and has (apparently) 75 parking spots I thought the U.S. didn’t have the British-style rules as to the consultation for closing stations but maybe I was wrong?

0:42 More than New Jersey?

Sounds like it was a fun adventure! How are those MARC bilevel cars? I’ve ridden all three MARC lines at least once, but have never been able to catch one of those cars for some reason!

Truly WILD adventure!!!!💯💯💯

Was expecting the least used MARC station to be St. Denis or one of the ones on the Brunswick Line. But then again, Jessup has been, as long as I can remember it, something barely more than a bus stop. Even most Light Rail stations are much better than Jessup MARC. But things could be worse. I could be anywhere in Virginia at any time, ever.

Awesome amount of DC collabs this weekend!

Its not muri kirk its murkirk

You were just a mile or so from several large prison complexes. We invite you to use their services the next time you are in Jessup.

Yup, my neck of the woods. That's my closest MARC station - and it's just not useful with the schedule. Miss the one train you have no backup. Both Savage to the south and Dorsey to the north have tons of parking and lots and get the riders that live off Rt. 175 where Jessup is. Zero trains if you want to commute towards Baltimore. That elementary school has never been that pedestrian friendly. That's the new one they built a few years ago - old building was closer to the road.

As a DMV native, I can confirm that there’s nothing in Union Station besides trains 😅 (although it sure is pretty)

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Genuinely surprised the least used station isn't Laurel Racetrack. Also as a Virginian I can confirm it is our legal and moral obligation to make fun of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Maryland!

I've been on this train when three people alighted at Jessup! That was an exciting day lol.

I've actually been to Arundel Mills Mall a couple of times. Interest i could, in theory, take a bus, go to Laurel Marc, and from their D.C. But still, i am actually closest to Penn Station.

Great video Sammy!

The Capitol isn’t the Center of the city Franklin park is IMO😂

Please please please do some homework before making these videos. It really degrades the quality of your work when basic facts that are easily researchable are overlooked. 1. Medical Center station is very much in Bethesda (which technically has no fixed borders), I think you meant to say it is just north of Downtown Bethesda. 2. If this is the most crowded you've seen a Metro platform, you haven't seen anything... 3. The primary reason Metro is free on July 4th is to keep crowds moving. The other reasons you cite are non factors, especially your economic boost downtown theory given that the free rides do not start until 5 PM. Until the mid 1990s or so, they opened the fare gates and had buckets for people to put their fares into on the honor system. Most didn't pay, so they opted to collect fares instead, despite the lines that resulted in some cases. 4. Wiehle is pronounced "whee-lee".

Take a trip to Poland, and do a video on the Main Warsaw train station. Thought it'd be cool, if you did that. By the way, this was a good and funny video. Thanks.

Unfortunately, VRE's ridership has not completely recovered from the pandemic

Speaking of VRE, Amtrak once had a station in Woodbridge, VA but it was shut down and later demolished due to low usage. VRE has built it's own station in Woodbridge which Amtrak also uses, CSX owns the tracks that VRE and MARC uses

VRE and MARC commuter trains also use Union Station

That’s cool! I’ll have to head across the river and check it out sometime!

Was down at the mall on the 4th had to take Smithsonian home then waterfront train was packed and national guard was at the station so it was a mess but had a good time hope to catch you on train one day brother

Nice video, but definitely do not envy you dealing with the crowds and muggy heat! Still, looked like a fun time, everything is better with friends! 😊🎉 Personally, opted for the indoor option, watching the fireworks over the National Mall... on PBS! 😁

Last year I walked to the Arlington Cemetery station from the Memorial and it was the same crush crowd but thankfully a special 8 car train was sent so it was empty when it arrived at the station but didn’t stay empty for long.

Like all terminal stations on the Washington Metrorail system the Glenmont station has provisions to allow the extension of the line. When looking into the outbound track B1 tunnel on the north end of the station, the track curves to the left with the tunnel wall continuing on in a straight. At the end of that wall is a knockout wall to allow the mining of the tunnel for a future extension. Roughly 1,300' beyond the in the track B2 tunnel is the same thing.

Some metro stations and trains used to be that busy at peak times in the years before the pandemic. I never thought I'd see it that busy again.

The main reason for the free fare is that with so many tourists the gates can actually become blocked and dangerous as they may not know how to use them. It can be challenging after a busy Nats game for example - but since is 95%+ locals they get through.

Looks like I got lucky when boarding at L’Enfant Plaza, I managed to have only a two minute wait to get into the station and not much longer to get on a Yellow line train. That train was still the busiest I’ve ever been on, with it only being 6 cars also. It was an awesome night for sure