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BOWIE RAILROAD BUILDINGS

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c. 1913 tower, waiting shed; c. 1930 freight and passenger building; 1993 restored. 8614 Chestnut Ave.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)

Rare surviving examples of a once commonplace small-scale railroad junction, these three frame structures served as the Pennsylvania Railroad’s depot complex at the Washington and Popes Creek branches. The two-story interlocking tower housed the critical function of controlling all the signals and switches in the vicinity of the Bowie junction. The tower, a waiting shed, and a combination freight and passenger building were moved approximately fifty feet from the active Amtrak right-of-way and preserved by the City of Bowie as a small community museum highlighting the local role of the railroad.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1912

    Built

What's Nearby

DORSEY CHAPEL (BROOKLAND M.E. CHURCH)
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BELAIR AT BOWIE
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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "BOWIE RAILROAD BUILDINGS", [Bowie, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-CR14.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 293-293.

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