Please stay safe with the approaching hurricane! Things can be replaced but not your life. As regards this bridge, as an old Baltimorean (born 1950) I know what track was here and about when it was last used. This bridge carried an industrial spur that was known as the B&O Highlandtown Branch. It split off of the B&O industrial tracks east of Kresson St., crossed this bridge, crossed Haven St. at grade (rails are still in the pavement), and continued to some industrial customers west of the crossing. The branch ran behind commercial business along Baltimore and Lombard Sts., with a siding curving across Baltimore St. to enter Esskay property, the branch end terminating abrubtly at a loading dock at Lombard & Conkling St. The loading dock wall is still there but the end of track is long gone. The branch last saw service in the early 1980s, with the Esskay meat packing plant (now gone) being the final customer. The formal application to abandon the track was filed on 6/7/1984, probably about the time Esskay closed their plant. Towards the end of service Esskay was mainly getting occasional empty boxcars to ship out animal hides for tanning. I was working for Baltimore Gas & Electric at the time and worked a gas service job there. I noticed a car was spotted at the plant every few weeks or so. I believe at one time Esskay was receiving cattle cars of livestock because the old spur in the property ran right along the pens where animals were kept. The Esskay plant was also once served by the Pennsylvania RR via a siding off the now abandoned industrial track east of Haven St. which the B&O branch crossed on a bridge The bridge is still there per Google Maps but the PRR rails are gone at the Haven St. crossing just north of Baltimore St. with a concrete patch across the street where they used to be.
There's a website called abandonedrails which lists various abandoned lines state-by-state, along with any information - pictures, interesting facts, maps, etc. - the site owner and readers have supplied. Just a couple years ago the abandonment application for this branch was added. I didn't know the spur had a formal branch name until I saw it listed, but knew right away what track was being spoken of. I always thought it was just another east Baltimore industrial spur and nameless. I added some photos on that website for the Catonsville Branch in Maryland I took back in the 1960s. That's the line I spoke of being sad to see abandoned on your other video about abandoned spurs because the PRR crew let me ride up the line with them on several occasions back in 1968 when I was in my late teens.
Oh, and if you happen to venture up Baltimore way again, there's an abandoned PRR branch in SW Baltimore known as the Claremont Branch you might like to check out. It used to connect to the mainline between Frederick & Wilkens Aves. From there it headed East and Southeast crossing Caton and Wilkens Aves. on bridges that are still there. I believe much of the track is still in place, too, although disconnected from the mainline, and the ROW is visible on Google Maps. The branch served several small businesses and warehouses, and also stockyards that once existed in that part of the city. The other end of the branch connected with the B&O near the Morrell Park area of Washington Blvd. Not sure when the last train ran over the line and only once caught a glimpse of a Pennsy Baldwin Switcher crossing the Wilkens Ave. bridge while riding on a transit bus coming home from high school in the later '60s. Far as I know, that area of Baltimore is safe to take some photos in. A few family members still live around there. In fact, two now-abandoned branches connected to the mainline between Frederick and Wilkens Aves., the Claremont heading East and the Catonsville Branch I got to ride on heading West. I once thought they were both part of the same branch that somehow crossed over the mainline, until getting a city map that showed RR lines.
@@railrol82 You ought to pay a visit to Staten Island, in New York as there's a lot of abandoned train tracks around here. Staten Island was served by the B&O Railroad from the late 1800's to approximately 1985, about a century! That's because Staten Island back in the day had at least 3 1/2 dozen factories and was one of New York's Ports Of Embarkations during WWII. I've lived here since the time I was About 9 or 10 years old. Originally from the Lonestar State. Staten Island is home to The Staten Island Rapid Transit. A commuter railroad similar to the Long Island Railroad, but run with modified NYCTA Subway cars, that were overhauled to comply with FRA standards of running passenger equipment on a freight RR! The Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) was owned by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and had three branches until the early 1950's , then became a NYCTA operation in the 1970's, with B&O retaining trackage rights on this line until the mid 1980's. This was because the B&O's official easternmost terminal was located in Philadelphia PA. In order for the B&O to access it's NYC properties, (The B&O brought freight into Manhattan, via a railroad barge & tugboat from Staten Island's St George Yard, adjacent to the world famous Staten Island Ferry, up to W26th Street on the west side of Manhattan), the B&O utilized trackage rights agreements with at least three railroads. The B&O utilized trackage rights on the Reading RR, Central Railroad of New Jersey and also the Lehigh Valley RR. B&O owned stocks of share in these companies and so had some control of these companies. For tax reasons, the B&O did not own any trackage in the state of New Jersey, with the exception of it's line from Cranford Junction to the AK draw to Staten Island. This I believe was called the Baltimore & New York or something of that nature. Freight trains would then go through Arlington Yard, to service P&G until that was shut down in 1991 and moved to Mexico. Freight trains also serviced the former North Shore (SIRT) Until around the early 1990's. In 1976, the Reading RR, Lehigh Valley RR and the Central Railroad of New Jersey were taken over buy the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail). In the years that followed, Conrail disallowed B&O freight trains with B&O train crews on their property. The B&O had to let Conrail forward trains between Philadelphia and Staten Island until Conrail completely banned any B&O trains on their property all together in the mid 80's. B&O leased the Staten Island Railroad's freight operation to a short line called the Susquehanna before they abandoned this all in 1992, due to deteriorating track conditions and also a lack of customers. About six years later, a regional shortline operator, the Morristown & Erie was contracted to repair the tracks of the Staten Island Railroad that were abandoned to get it reopened for intermodal freight service. After that was completed, the FRA sent an inspection train to inspect these tracks and found that these tracks were only repaired to class 5 standards, trains would only be able to "crawl" at just five miles per hour! In the early 2000's, $72 million dollars were spent to rehabilitate these deteriorated tracks and to fix the AK liftbridge. Today, about half of this line sees a couple of freight trains a day. Two of these trains are "dirt" trains, bringing garbage from SI's Infamous Fresh kills Landfill from all of NYC's five boroughs to other landfills across the country as well as intermodal trains carrying freight in containers. However, the portion of the Staten Island Railroad (SIRT) North Shore Line between Arlington Yard and St George is still disused / abandoned. The tracks have been severed, cutting of the current St George Tottenville commuter portion from the rest of the National Rail Network. No freight trains have been down that way since at least the early 1990's. There's plenty of abandoned sidings, spurs, as well as abandoned waterfront trackage to go with it. There's even abandoned tracks "hiding" in some of the surrounding streets near these rail lines that have been paved over with blacktop. You can still see them as their like "veins" in the pavement "trying to reveal" themselves, until a fresh blacktop layer is thrown down. Some of these "street tracks" I suspect might be remnants of former interurban / trolley lines that interchanged with the B&O / SIRT.
There was one in Elyria Ohio right by a chemical plant. It was a 1880s trestle. It was at the entrance gate to the shipping docks. It was a problem to go under to go in. It was standing there and no rail bed on either side. The tracks had been gone for years and slot of the berm was cut away for apartment complexes. I asked why the plant had never tore it down. And I was told that they had a wrecking company look at it and would charge 60 thousand to take it down. I looked at it and told them with a torch and the big wheel loader they had they could take it out themselves. I came back through there six months later and it was gone. They used the wheel loader and some chain and torched the mourning mounts and pulled it down. It was a short span like this one and was pretty easy to knock down.I know it was old but the rail line was gone and it was terribly unsafe setting there.. They took the stone blocks and made a retaining wall from them. I love the videos and be safe. Hope the hurricane turns away from you. Prayers man.
I live about 40 minutes from Baltimore, due east in frederick, and we have a bunch of abandon railroad lines and buildings in the city. The city used to be a HUB for the B&O, PRR, and Local Trolley line. If you venture out this way, there is plenty to see. And industry spur that led to an old Clorox plant, old trolley tracks, etc etc.
I wish I’d known you were in Maryland in July! I live in the western part of the state and could have taken you around to a bunch of older and abandoned railroad lines in my part of the state! Watch out for the hurricane-we don’t know if it’s going to hit Maryland, but I have family in the coastal part of South Carolina that I’m worrying about too. Nice to see this, and as they say in the military, watch your six this week!
I love the location of this bridge, I like the abandoned feel and look of the bridge combined with the business of the surroundings, cool location! We just found a bridge like this but it was in the middle of nowhere which was also cool.
I've been deployed to the NC coast with the rescue task force. Our area escaped major damage from hurricane Dorian. Glad you made it through OK. Busy, so I am catching up on your videos!
Old B&O bridge, likely its at least 100 yrs old. lots of them in Baltimore that are still in use. There is one on Loch Raven Blvd that was an old B&O bridge that is still in daily use. I used to live off Loch Raven when I lived in Baltimore of a year and that bridge sees several CSX trains a day at all hours. Baltimore is a mess, but they do have some amazing historic rails still in use. Be safe down there RailROL82 and if you need to, board up your house and get the hell out of there! I saw Hurricane Katrina firsthand and I know what those things can do.
@@railrol82 Yes it is, I also lived outside of Philly on the NJ side growing up. Lots of old Pennsylvania RR bridges and trackage still in use there. Have you gone to Philly yet?
This was an awesome find! The old Baltimore Ohio Railroad, that bridge is ready to almost crumble. It looks like where you were filming from looked like a park. Please stay safe from the hurricane RoLRoL!
@@railrol82 I lived near Newark, DE. and there was a large freight yard there just outside of Wilmington. I used to go play down there as a kid. The conductors back in the day when they still had cabooses would run us off. There were mostly B&O trains and some that said Chessie System.
So good I posted twice! Wow, a B&O that was one old trestle. I know the B&O got its start in 1828 but at some point, it became the Chesapeake and Ohio or C&O this is what really defines the trestle. I would imagine just like the rails are time-stamped I would think that iron would be stamped as well. I understand you're safety concerns and I too would question walking across it just to find a date. those ties looked pretty old. The creosote has already worn off and when that happens dry rot isn't too far behind. Again good find! One of these days I'm going to go the B&O Railroad Museum around there in Baltimore.
That's a really cool find Roly! Must have been out of service for a very long time! Its amazing that the bridge itself is still there! Well my friend all of my thoughts and prayers are with you and everyone else that's going to be effected by the storm. Do whatever you have to to stay safe and we'll see you when it's all done. Take care brother.
We’re supposed to get hit dead on as a CAT 1 or CAT 2 in Virginia Beach on Friday. If I get washed away and never post a video on my channels again.....nobody will notice. Except maybe Step Curry and Taj Mahal. Thanks for the tour! That’s a rough hood! Be safe! Wishing you all the best!
Hello my best friend. Nice to see you. Love you more. Please be careful down there we pray for you and your family. Hope to hear from on Wednesday buddy
@@BarnabasCollinsXIII high taxes and regulations drove manufacturing out of the United States there is just no more bulk freight to haul trucks can handle the smaller shipments
Amazing video my friend . I give my best wishes for you during the hurricane . Wait it is legal to to walk on those bridges . We also have a bridge like this here in NJ .
No one pays you to take physical risks. If the bridge looks unsafe, stay back. No apology required. There are many derelect trestles across the country. There is no money to save them. Sometimes money will be spent to tear down the RR bridge to make way for road improvements. Thanks again for the video.
Wow! Awesome bridge R! Does the other side have tracks that continue? Would be great for a part 2? Thanks for sharing this find. Be safe with the hurricane my friend. I have extra space here in NJ.
Is there a way to access the other side by climbing up the bank? Would be neat to see the other side, but safety comes first. Its not worth becoming road pizza!
Interesting video of this abandoned Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. Obviosly the line ame off the mainline that is on the other side of the bridge from where you shot the video. Howeer, I wonder where the tracks went in the other direction. From looking at the Google Maps loation it is hard to figure out where the track went and what it served. Another interesting find on your part. Stay safe with the hurricane in the area. Hopefully the hurricane will turn north and head off the coast in the Atlantic.
Yes I am in Ohio B&O Middlefield Ohio the same line went past us. I think about 30 years ago or 35 years ago. Now it’s a walkway yes very very fascinating
@@railrol82 Thanks. You as well. p.s. has there been any trains on the new track on 25th street in WPB connecting the FEC with the CSX? I used to live on 24th and Spruce back in 1988.
I saw the winds are now sustained at 180 mph as of Sunday morning. Be safe my brother, this looks like a really bad one. If at all possible shoot a message afterwards letting us know you’re safe. ✌🏻🙏🏻
I don't about Bugs Bunny it would come closer to being the haunts of Ratso Rizzo the gangsta rat. I mean you are in Baltimore. I shouldn't say that but, it did sort of looks like a rat hole or even something they could make use of after all rats are resourceful. Nice find by the way and another excellent video. Be safe, I'm praying for ya and hopefully, the Coriolis effect will kick in and Dorian spin back out to sea soak up water cool the ocean down some only to die a peaceful death. Or however, hurricanes die.
It looks like the storm is headed north of Florida. This bridge is a piece of history, but also not being used. It's rotting away. I would think it's days are numbered, till it's demolished.
Oh boy, what a find! You’ve sent me down the rabbit hole with this one. Looking at the USGS map site shows a plethora of tracks in that part of the world, unfortunately a lot of them, like the spur and bridge you found, are gone. Look towards the bottom, find Patterson Park and go just to the east. There’s your bridge. ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=8c0e072d8424611ec0a5dd2d3a73c21c I’m still trying to figure out the drop off on the side of the bridge that you explored, was there an elevated platform that the tracks were on, or a berm? Who knows. Looking on Google earth shows another bridge slightly west of your location, that looks like it crossed another set of tracks. And you can see several buildings that have that curve to fit tracks. The icing on the cake though is the roundhouse just north of your bridge, the best part is that we can see the remnants on Google earth! Man oh man I’d love to explore that area on foot, but it’d have to be cold to keep the creepy crawlies at bay, and I’d have to be packing! Great find, I hope you’ve got more stuff from this area! And good luck with Dorian, looks like it’s gonna turn and head our way, I’m probably far enough from the coast of NC to miss the bad stuff. Hang in there!
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Please stay safe with the approaching hurricane! Things can be replaced but not your life.
As regards this bridge, as an old Baltimorean (born 1950) I know what track was here and about when it was last used. This bridge carried an industrial spur that was known as the B&O Highlandtown Branch. It split off of the B&O industrial tracks east of Kresson St., crossed this bridge, crossed Haven St. at grade (rails are still in the pavement), and continued to some industrial customers west of the crossing. The branch ran behind commercial business along Baltimore and Lombard Sts., with a siding curving across Baltimore St. to enter Esskay property, the branch end terminating abrubtly at a loading dock at Lombard & Conkling St. The loading dock wall is still there but the end of track is long gone. The branch last saw service in the early 1980s, with the Esskay meat packing plant (now gone) being the final customer. The formal application to abandon the track was filed on 6/7/1984, probably about the time Esskay closed their plant. Towards the end of service Esskay was mainly getting occasional empty boxcars to ship out animal hides for tanning. I was working for Baltimore Gas & Electric at the time and worked a gas service job there. I noticed a car was spotted at the plant every few weeks or so. I believe at one time Esskay was receiving cattle cars of livestock because the old spur in the property ran right along the pens where animals were kept. The Esskay plant was also once served by the Pennsylvania RR via a siding off the now abandoned industrial track east of Haven St. which the B&O branch crossed on a bridge The bridge is still there per Google Maps but the PRR rails are gone at the Haven St. crossing just north of Baltimore St. with a concrete patch across the street where they used to be.
There's a website called abandonedrails which lists various abandoned lines state-by-state, along with any information - pictures, interesting facts, maps, etc. - the site owner and readers have supplied. Just a couple years ago the abandonment application for this branch was added. I didn't know the spur had a formal branch name until I saw it listed, but knew right away what track was being spoken of. I always thought it was just another east Baltimore industrial spur and nameless. I added some photos on that website for the Catonsville Branch in Maryland I took back in the 1960s. That's the line I spoke of being sad to see abandoned on your other video about abandoned spurs because the PRR crew let me ride up the line with them on several occasions back in 1968 when I was in my late teens.
Oh, and if you happen to venture up Baltimore way again, there's an abandoned PRR branch in SW Baltimore known as the Claremont Branch you might like to check out. It used to connect to the mainline between Frederick & Wilkens Aves. From there it headed East and Southeast crossing Caton and Wilkens Aves. on bridges that are still there. I believe much of the track is still in place, too, although disconnected from the mainline, and the ROW is visible on Google Maps. The branch served several small businesses and warehouses, and also stockyards that once existed in that part of the city. The other end of the branch connected with the B&O near the Morrell Park area of Washington Blvd. Not sure when the last train ran over the line and only once caught a glimpse of a Pennsy Baldwin Switcher crossing the Wilkens Ave. bridge while riding on a transit bus coming home from high school in the later '60s. Far as I know, that area of Baltimore is safe to take some photos in. A few family members still live around there.
In fact, two now-abandoned branches connected to the mainline between Frederick and Wilkens Aves., the Claremont heading East and the Catonsville Branch I got to ride on heading West. I once thought they were both part of the same branch that somehow crossed over the mainline, until getting a city map that showed RR lines.
@@railrol82 You ought to pay a visit to Staten Island, in New York as there's a lot of abandoned train tracks around here. Staten Island was served by the B&O Railroad from the late 1800's to approximately 1985, about a century! That's because Staten Island back in the day had at least 3 1/2 dozen factories and was one of New York's Ports Of Embarkations during WWII. I've lived here since the time I was About 9 or 10 years old. Originally from the Lonestar State. Staten Island is home to The Staten Island Rapid Transit. A commuter railroad similar to the Long Island Railroad, but run with modified NYCTA Subway cars, that were overhauled to comply with FRA standards of running passenger equipment on a freight RR! The Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) was owned by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and had three branches until the early 1950's , then became a NYCTA operation in the 1970's, with B&O retaining trackage rights on this line until the mid 1980's. This was because the B&O's official easternmost terminal was located in Philadelphia PA. In order for the B&O to access it's NYC properties, (The B&O brought freight into Manhattan, via a railroad barge & tugboat from Staten Island's St George Yard, adjacent to the world famous Staten Island Ferry, up to W26th Street on the west side of Manhattan), the B&O utilized trackage rights agreements with at least three railroads. The B&O utilized trackage rights on the Reading RR, Central Railroad of New Jersey and also the Lehigh Valley RR. B&O owned stocks of share in these companies and so had some control of these companies. For tax reasons, the B&O did not own any trackage in the state of New Jersey, with the exception of it's line from Cranford Junction to the AK draw to Staten Island. This I believe was called the Baltimore & New York or something of that nature. Freight trains would then go through Arlington Yard, to service P&G until that was shut down in 1991 and moved to Mexico. Freight trains also serviced the former North Shore (SIRT) Until around the early 1990's. In 1976, the Reading RR, Lehigh Valley RR and the Central Railroad of New Jersey were taken over buy the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail). In the years that followed, Conrail disallowed B&O freight trains with B&O train crews on their property. The B&O had to let Conrail forward trains between Philadelphia and Staten Island until Conrail completely banned any B&O trains on their property all together in the mid 80's. B&O leased the Staten Island Railroad's freight operation to a short line called the Susquehanna before they abandoned this all in 1992, due to deteriorating track conditions and also a lack of customers. About six years later, a regional shortline operator, the Morristown & Erie was contracted to repair the tracks of the Staten Island Railroad that were abandoned to get it reopened for intermodal freight service. After that was completed, the FRA sent an inspection train to inspect these tracks and found that these tracks were only repaired to class 5 standards, trains would only be able to "crawl" at just five miles per hour! In the early 2000's, $72 million dollars were spent to rehabilitate these deteriorated tracks and to fix the AK liftbridge. Today, about half of this line sees a couple of freight trains a day. Two of these trains are "dirt" trains, bringing garbage from SI's Infamous Fresh kills Landfill from all of NYC's five boroughs to other landfills across the country as well as intermodal trains carrying freight in containers. However, the portion of the Staten Island Railroad (SIRT) North Shore Line between Arlington Yard and St George is still disused / abandoned. The tracks have been severed, cutting of the current St George Tottenville commuter portion from the rest of the National Rail Network. No freight trains have been down that way since at least the early 1990's. There's plenty of abandoned sidings, spurs, as well as abandoned waterfront trackage to go with it. There's even abandoned tracks "hiding" in some of the surrounding streets near these rail lines that have been paved over with blacktop. You can still see them as their like "veins" in the pavement "trying to reveal" themselves, until a fresh blacktop layer is thrown down. Some of these "street tracks" I suspect might be remnants of former interurban / trolley lines that interchanged with the B&O / SIRT.
Staying safe is always top priority.
Thanks for exploring this bridge. Very cool.
There was one in Elyria Ohio right by a chemical plant. It was a 1880s trestle. It was at the entrance gate to the shipping docks. It was a problem to go under to go in. It was standing there and no rail bed on either side. The tracks had been gone for years and slot of the berm was cut away for apartment complexes. I asked why the plant had never tore it down. And I was told that they had a wrecking company look at it and would charge 60 thousand to take it down. I looked at it and told them with a torch and the big wheel loader they had they could take it out themselves. I came back through there six months later and it was gone. They used the wheel loader and some chain and torched the mourning mounts and pulled it down. It was a short span like this one and was pretty easy to knock down.I know it was old but the rail line was gone and it was terribly unsafe setting there.. They took the stone blocks and made a retaining wall from them. I love the videos and be safe. Hope the hurricane turns away from you. Prayers man.
I live about 40 minutes from Baltimore, due east in frederick, and we have a bunch of abandon railroad lines and buildings in the city. The city used to be a HUB for the B&O, PRR, and Local Trolley line. If you venture out this way, there is plenty to see. And industry spur that led to an old Clorox plant, old trolley tracks, etc etc.
Hey good luck through the hurricane. Stay strong stay safe God bless
I wish I’d known you were in Maryland in July! I live in the western part of the state and could have taken you around to a bunch of older and abandoned railroad lines in my part of the state! Watch out for the hurricane-we don’t know if it’s going to hit Maryland, but I have family in the coastal part of South Carolina that I’m worrying about too. Nice to see this, and as they say in the military, watch your six this week!
I love the location of this bridge, I like the abandoned feel and look of the bridge combined with the business of the surroundings, cool location! We just found a bridge like this but it was in the middle of nowhere which was also cool.
RailROL82 it looks kinda rough but gives an awesome look to the video, and no worries loving the videos!
Great finding some old abandoned bridge and other railroad
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I've been deployed to the NC coast with the rescue task force. Our area escaped major damage from hurricane Dorian. Glad you made it through OK. Busy, so I am catching up on your videos!
That's a great find from B&O days! Funny they've painted only the side which is visible to road traffic. Be safe out there, my friend!
Old B&O bridge, likely its at least 100 yrs old. lots of them in Baltimore that are still in use. There is one on Loch Raven Blvd that was an old B&O bridge that is still in daily use. I used to live off Loch Raven when I lived in Baltimore of a year and that bridge sees several CSX trains a day at all hours. Baltimore is a mess, but they do have some amazing historic rails still in use. Be safe down there RailROL82 and if you need to, board up your house and get the hell out of there! I saw Hurricane Katrina firsthand and I know what those things can do.
@@railrol82 Yes it is, I also lived outside of Philly on the NJ side growing up. Lots of old Pennsylvania RR bridges and trackage still in use there. Have you gone to Philly yet?
Be careful seen hurricanes blow tractor trailers around like they were toys !
I'm glad that they are keeping this bridge for a little while
@@railrol82 np
Sad they don't keep these historical beauties up. Great video.
Best wishes Roly, stay safe. Hear the hurricane has picked up wind speed and likely to be pretty destructive, praying for everyone in the area.
This was an awesome find! The old Baltimore Ohio Railroad, that bridge is ready to almost crumble. It looks like where you were filming from looked like a park. Please stay safe from the hurricane RoLRoL!
This is true, water is different but there’s traffic and moving cars, but still, your welcome as always RoLRoL! Please stay safe!
Be safe my brother you and your family I’m in west palm beach
Been praying brother. Live near Galveston and feel your pain.
When I lived up in the northeast during my teenage years B&O railroad was the only trains I saw back then. Besides the Metros out of Philly to D.C.
@@railrol82 I lived near Newark, DE. and there was a large freight yard there just outside of Wilmington. I used to go play down there as a kid. The conductors back in the day when they still had cabooses would run us off. There were mostly B&O trains and some that said Chessie System.
So good I posted twice! Wow, a B&O that was one old trestle. I know the B&O got its start in 1828 but at some point, it became the Chesapeake and Ohio or C&O this is what really defines the trestle. I would imagine just like the rails are time-stamped I would think that iron would be stamped as well. I understand you're safety concerns and I too would question walking across it just to find a date. those ties looked pretty old. The creosote has already worn off and when that happens dry rot isn't too far behind. Again good find! One of these days I'm going to go the B&O Railroad Museum around there in Baltimore.
That's a really cool find Roly! Must have been out of service for a very long time! Its amazing that the bridge itself is still there! Well my friend all of my thoughts and prayers are with you and everyone else that's going to be effected by the storm. Do whatever you have to to stay safe and we'll see you when it's all done. Take care brother.
hey R my railroad brothern we are praying you to be safe and secure. a awesome catch of the old B And O bridge . and AWESOME TATOO :-)
@@railrol82 hey R GO FOR IT DUDE, YOU ROCK!!! STAY SAFE :-)
Some of those homes had some great views. Sounds like someone yelling at the end.
Very cool . take care of yourself . thank you great find.
Nice video! Me in Tampa will probably get 40mph gusts and a few showers from the hurricane
We’re supposed to get hit dead on as a CAT 1 or CAT 2 in Virginia Beach on Friday.
If I get washed away and never post a video on my channels again.....nobody will notice. Except maybe Step Curry and Taj Mahal.
Thanks for the tour! That’s a rough hood!
Be safe! Wishing you all the best!
Hello my best friend. Nice to see you. Love you more. Please be careful down there we pray for you and your family. Hope to hear from on Wednesday buddy
Very nice tour !!!Stay safe !!!!
Why do people abandon such marvelous and historic things?
I can understand when rail companies go bankrupt but the major ones?
Rail traffic is primarily done with containers. Industrial spurs just don't get a lot of use
B&O, C&O, Chessie System, CSX. No, the company is far from bankrupt. Just making decisions to benefit the company and the areas they've abandoned.
@@BarnabasCollinsXIII high taxes and regulations drove manufacturing out of the United States there is just no more bulk freight to haul trucks can handle the smaller shipments
Right here with you, partner. I really don’t know where that hurricane is going, but I’m scared. I hope you stay safe. But for now, I can only pray.
great video RailROL82 :) hurricane looks to miss Miami,Fla ?
I like this just don't see the edges greetings railfans Indonesia 😄👍
Interesting video, all the best from Poland, +
Be safe my friend. I will keep you in my thoughts. Hope to see you soon.
Great video! Try to stay safe! Sending prayers your way!
@@railrol82 Please let us know(when you can) how you're doing after the hurricane's passed!🙏🙏🙏
Amazing video my friend . I give my best wishes for you during the hurricane . Wait it is legal to to walk on those bridges . We also have a bridge like this here in NJ .
No one pays you to take physical risks. If the bridge looks unsafe, stay back. No apology required. There are many derelect trestles across the country. There is no money to save them. Sometimes money will be spent to tear down the RR bridge to make way for road improvements. Thanks again for the video.
Good work my friend, very nice!
Best regards from Croatia :-)
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Wow! Awesome bridge R! Does the other side have tracks that continue? Would be great for a part 2? Thanks for sharing this find. Be safe with the hurricane my friend. I have extra space here in NJ.
Is there a way to access the other side by climbing up the bank? Would be neat to see the other side, but safety comes first. Its not worth becoming road pizza!
Interesting video of this abandoned Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge in Baltimore, Maryland. Obviosly the line ame off the mainline that is on the other side of the bridge from where you shot the video. Howeer, I wonder where the tracks went in the other direction. From looking at the Google Maps loation it is hard to figure out where the track went and what it served. Another interesting find on your part. Stay safe with the hurricane in the area. Hopefully the hurricane will turn north and head off the coast in the Atlantic.
www.openrailwaymap.org/ gives some hint..
That’s so cool how you find all this stuff
Linking 13 great states with the nation b&os slogan
Have a safe Labor Day. Let's not forget September is peak season for hurricanes. Best wishes to those on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Great video railrol
Stay safe out there from the hurricane!
That's a cool bridge! I wonder why they painted an abandoned bridge?
Stay safe Mr. RailROL, hate to lose a close friend. But dang, i'd be chicken walking across that bridge lol.
Be safe my friend
@@railrol82 I used to live in ft Lauderdale I know what your going through
Keep up the good video and hopefully u do not get hit by the hurricane
@@railrol82 I meant do not not do get hit by the hurricane
Good luck my friend
Awesome video.
Yes I am in Ohio B&O Middlefield Ohio the same line went past us. I think about 30 years ago or 35 years ago. Now it’s a walkway yes very very fascinating
I live in Lake Worth. We are in the same boat right now.
@@railrol82 Thanks. You as well. p.s. has there been any trains on the new track on 25th street in WPB connecting the FEC with the CSX? I used to live on 24th and Spruce back in 1988.
was that a tunnel at the other end? did you shoot any of the
row behind you?
@@railrol82 Is that who was saying "yo" to you at the end of the video?
Good luck through Dorian!
Did Chessie abandoned this track, or was it CSX? Awesome video friend!
nice
Nice.
RailROL82 Your welcome.
I saw the winds are now sustained at 180 mph as of Sunday morning. Be safe my brother, this looks like a really bad one. If at all possible shoot a message afterwards letting us know you’re safe. ✌🏻🙏🏻
Stay safe!
Good like
I don't about Bugs Bunny it would come closer to being the haunts of Ratso Rizzo the gangsta rat. I mean you are in Baltimore. I shouldn't say that but, it did sort of looks like a rat hole or even something they could make use of after all rats are resourceful. Nice find by the way and another excellent video. Be safe, I'm praying for ya and hopefully, the Coriolis effect will kick in and Dorian spin back out to sea soak up water cool the ocean down some only to die a peaceful death. Or however, hurricanes die.
you should visit the former rock away beach line in New York it’s been abandoned for over 50 years
Superb 🇮🇳
It looks like the storm is headed north of Florida.
This bridge is a piece of history, but also not being used. It's rotting away. I would think it's days are numbered, till it's demolished.
Stay safe bud. The hurricane will get railroaded
I'm full of them. Just don't get tied down. Or someone is liable to get spiked.
Baltimore marylan I have been there about 6 years ago was with a missions group we got lost so wanting to get photos of the bridge but did not get to
Theres a another one near it by the bus stop on east Lombard street
@@railrol82 Your welcome
Oh boy, what a find! You’ve sent me down the rabbit hole with this one. Looking at the USGS map site shows a plethora of tracks in that part of the world, unfortunately a lot of them, like the spur and bridge you found, are gone. Look towards the bottom, find Patterson Park and go just to the east. There’s your bridge. ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=8c0e072d8424611ec0a5dd2d3a73c21c I’m still trying to figure out the drop off on the side of the bridge that you explored, was there an elevated platform that the tracks were on, or a berm? Who knows. Looking on Google earth shows another bridge slightly west of your location, that looks like it crossed another set of tracks. And you can see several buildings that have that curve to fit tracks. The icing on the cake though is the roundhouse just north of your bridge, the best part is that we can see the remnants on Google earth! Man oh man I’d love to explore that area on foot, but it’d have to be cold to keep the creepy crawlies at bay, and I’d have to be packing! Great find, I hope you’ve got more stuff from this area! And good luck with Dorian, looks like it’s gonna turn and head our way, I’m probably far enough from the coast of NC to miss the bad stuff. Hang in there!
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The B&O railroad that csx goes on and Amtrak And Marc commuter train go their that railroad is near my house and csx goes on it and Amtrak And marc And csx took over Cheesie sysetem and the B&O railroad can take you all the way to Chicago by Amtrak And it can go to harpers ferry wv than csx can go the Cumberland md than yes
RailROL82 nah man your welcome
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Get to a safe place till its over, Its a big one.
Hey good luck and God bless you. But do more research on your vids before you air them.