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Baltimore and Ohio Engines Nos. 7210 and 7134 at Mt. Clare Rail Yard, Baltimore, Md., Date Unknown
Though the date of this photograph is unknown, the location is well documented by the white building sign in the photograph which appears above the rear of the two lead yard engines numbers 7210 and 7134. The Mt. Clare Yard is famous in American railroad history as the site of the first commercial railroad in 1827 as well as the first railroad manufacturing site, established by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, a National Historic Landmark, now occupies this forty acre tract.
A study of this photograph, likely taken between 1910 and 1930, indicates the enormity of the railroad industry in the United States. The engines in the photograph are primarily yard engines used to assemble freight and passenger cars into specific consists for their eventual destinations. The sheer number of yard engines seen in the photograph hints at the high volume of goods and passengers being moved by rail early in the twentieth century before a highway system existed in the U.S. On the right of this photograph are stacks of railcar and engine parts that are accessible by a moving overhead crane for transport inside an adjacent manufacturing or repair facility. Aside from agriculture, no other industry in America in this era approached the size of railroad manufacturing and transportation.
From the Ernest Roberts Railway Photography Collection. Prints available from many historic railroad negatives and prints. Prints will be silver halide fiber base prints from original negatives in good condition. Inkjet prints from digital scans of restored prints and negatives.
The original photograph in the Ernest Roberts collection is an 11×14 print. From the print a digital image was made with a very high resolution DSLR. Because no negative exists, it is not possible to provide silver halide prints of this image.
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