BnO_Hendo
February 27th, 2005, 04:33 AM
There is a station located in Aberdeen Maryland (about 20 miles outside of Baltimore) that is an old 1880s B&O station. I believe it was designed by a fellow named Furness, and from what I recall, this station is the only extant B&O station left from Baltimore to Philly. Now I do know that CSX has wanted to tear this station down. However CSX is open to having it moved. There has been a group trying to preserve the station, and I have written letters urging that it be saved as an irreplaceable part of Americana. I just received this email:
Dear Mr. Henderson,
I apologize for the lack of communication to you and the other supporters of the project. Unfortunately, as the director of the Historical Society I get pulled in many different directions and have not been as timely in posting updates as I would prefer. Having said that I can tell you that as of the last month the paperwork as been initiated asking CSX to surplus the land on which we hope to relocate the station.
The architectural firm which was ultimately hired determined that the
building was indeed sound enough to with stand a move and this opinion was confirmed by a building mover. Several proposals for an end use of the eventually renovated building have been proposed although no decision has been made there. the focus of our efforts is to obtain the land and raise enough funds for the actual move.
I am actually today composing a letter to be sent out to all of our
supporters to date in an attempt to let everyone know that this is still a viable project and provide them with as many details as possible. If you would like to send me your mailing address I will make sure that you receive a copy.
Thank you for your continued interest.
Sincerely,
Maryanna
Hopefully this station can be moved and restored. It looks bad from the outside, frankly, but I'm not an architect nor an engineer. President Street Station looked a mess at one time, too. My understanding is that they want to move it some distance further from the tracks.
I have a photo of it at my railimages.com site:
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davehenderson
Dear Mr. Henderson,
I apologize for the lack of communication to you and the other supporters of the project. Unfortunately, as the director of the Historical Society I get pulled in many different directions and have not been as timely in posting updates as I would prefer. Having said that I can tell you that as of the last month the paperwork as been initiated asking CSX to surplus the land on which we hope to relocate the station.
The architectural firm which was ultimately hired determined that the
building was indeed sound enough to with stand a move and this opinion was confirmed by a building mover. Several proposals for an end use of the eventually renovated building have been proposed although no decision has been made there. the focus of our efforts is to obtain the land and raise enough funds for the actual move.
I am actually today composing a letter to be sent out to all of our
supporters to date in an attempt to let everyone know that this is still a viable project and provide them with as many details as possible. If you would like to send me your mailing address I will make sure that you receive a copy.
Thank you for your continued interest.
Sincerely,
Maryanna
Hopefully this station can be moved and restored. It looks bad from the outside, frankly, but I'm not an architect nor an engineer. President Street Station looked a mess at one time, too. My understanding is that they want to move it some distance further from the tracks.
I have a photo of it at my railimages.com site:
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/davehenderson