Baltimore City Passenger Railway
The Baltimore City Passenger Railway began operation on July 12, 1859 using horse-drawn cars.[1]
Oden Bowie was elected president of the railroad in 1873.[2]
Remaining Structures
- Baltimore City Passenger Railway Power House and Car Barn, 1711-1719 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, built in 1892
- Baltimore City Passenger Railway cable powerhouse, 1100 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, built in 1892
gollark: We don't use commas instead of decimal points. We use commas to separate out groups of digits in numbers, and decimal points to represent... decimals.
gollark: Mine displays 24 hour time too. No idea why.
gollark: See, powercells *are* somewhat expensive, and placing them on every machine isn't practical.
gollark: But most of the base runs on cabling because it's more cost-effective, and doesn't have the 5%ish loss of powercells.
gollark: What? We totally use wireless power transfer.
References
- Helton, Gary (2008). Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses. Arcadia Publishing. p. y. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- Hollander, Jacob Harry (1982). The Financial History of Baltimore. AMS Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-404-61368-6.
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