Train crossing High Bridge over Gwynns Falls in Baltimore County, Maryland on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad line.
Industry
Rail transport
Founded
May 6, 1853 (1853-05-06)
Founder
Walter Bowie
Thomas Fielder Bowie
William Duckett Bowie
Oden Bowie
Defunct
November 1, 1902 (1902-11-01)
Fate
Merged with Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Successor
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Area served
Maryland
Washington, D.C.
Revenue
US$290,996.29
[1] (1892)
Total assets
US$12,791,586
[1] (1892)
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) operated from Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., from 1872 to 1902. Owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was the second railroad company to connect the nation's capital to the Northeastern U.S., and competed with the older Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Part of the B&P route is now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, the most heavily traveled American intercity passenger line; and of the Penn Line of the Maryland Transit Administration's MARC commuter train service. Its Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, bored under north Baltimore in 1871, remains in use.
^ abPoor's Manual of Railroads. Vol. 26. p. 972.
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