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    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...
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    The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, also known as Pennsylvania Railroad Station, was a railroad station that was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad...
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    Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Southern Railway. The railine connected to the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad at Potomac Yard...
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    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as...
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    was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., resulting in his death in Elberon, New Jersey, two and a half months later...
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    The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel (or B&P Tunnel) is a double-tracked, masonry arch railroad tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, just...
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    disappointed and delusional office seeker, shot Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington. The wound was not immediately fatal,...
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  • West Virginia (Virginia until 1863), on the Potomac River, at a junction with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). It played a key role in early train...
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    subsidiaries, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad.: 226  In 1907, the PB&W became a co-owner of the new...
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    Oden Bowie (category American racehorse owners and breeders)
    Maryland, began as a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad, named after Oden Bowie in 1872. A 1,800-home...
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    to such a degree that he decided to kill Garfield and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Garfield died two months...
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  • Alexandria, Barcroft and Washington Transit Company Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Baltimore and Ocean City Railway Baltimore and Washington Transit...
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    B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) historic site where a set of railroad bridges, originally built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
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    Pope's Creek Subdivision (category Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad lines)
    originally ran. The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) was chartered on May 6th, 1853 with the purpose of building a railroad from Baltimore to Upper Marlboro...
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    underwater piles of riprap and piers. In 1899, the Pennsylvania Railroad, owner of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) Company and thus the bridge, began...
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    The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) was an American railroad that operated independently from 1836 to 1881. Headquartered in Philadelphia...
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    where it would connect with the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (later the Pope's Creek branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad). The WC&PL also broke ground...
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  • Owings Mills to Fulton Junction in Baltimore, and obtained trackage rights from the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) for the remaining two miles of...
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    The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad (reporting mark PESX) is a heritage railroad based in Romney, West Virginia. The railroad operates excursion trains...
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    The Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad, later the Annapolis, Washington and Baltimore Railroad, was a railroad that provided service to Annapolis, Maryland...
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    assassinate United States President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., on 2 July 1881. Guiteau was a disgruntled...
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    Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, began at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2...
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    wait for the president at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station, on the southwest corner of present-day Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington...
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    former river boat captain, suffered a fatal heart attack at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station. His mother then put him into Saint John's Orphanage...
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    office-seeker Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station in Washington. The President and his sons were waiting for a train en route...
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    660-foot (2,334.77-meter) Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which opened in 1873 and whose 30 mph (48 km/h) speed limit, sharp curves, and steep grades make it...
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    The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad...
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  • Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad were consolidated to form the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad November...
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  • from 1869 to 1872, founder and first President of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad and also president of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway. December...
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  • Railroad Walkersville Southern Railroad Washington Metro Baltimore and Bel Air Electric Railway Baltimore, Halethorpe and Elkridge Railway Baltimore,...
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