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Date: 11/10/17 20:06
Metropolitan Sup question
Author: Cumberland

Did CSX's Metropolitan Sub ever contain any towers of any sort east of Brunswick, MD?

Matthew

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Date: 11/10/17 21:42
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: WM_1109

Good question. My references indicate that B&O had a tower at Boyd (DS), around mp 29, as recently as 1958. Don't know when it was decommissioned. That would've been the only one between Rhode Island Avenue (QN) and Brunswick (WB).
-Ted

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Date: 11/10/17 22:03
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: WM_1109

If you go back a little further (in time), there was also a tower at Point of Rocks (KG).

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Date: 11/10/17 22:10
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: Cumberland

Interesting. Why Boyds? It seems like it would have been more necessary in the closer D.C. suburbs, like Gaithersburg, where it once occupied a "Y" spur.

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Date: 11/11/17 04:12
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: PRR_4859

Was there a tower at Georgetown Junction?

Thank you in advance.

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Date: 11/11/17 04:55
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: GPutz

See:

http://www.bullsheet.com/towers1928.html

It appears by 1928 there were only:

QN - Rhode Island Ave.
DS - Boyds
KD - Point of Rocks

Gerry



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Date: 11/11/17 05:22
Re: Metropolitan Sup question
Author: WM_1109

Matthew,
This page has some more information on DS Tower, including a low quality photo, reportedly from around 1958.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldmainline/met7.htm
-Ted

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