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Summary

Here is a vintage photo (or postcard?) showing the Point of Rocks Station with a passenger train on the old B&O Mainline. This image was taken sometime after 1902, as the KG Tower, visible on the right, was constructed that year. You can also see Hickman’s Lunch Market next to the tower.

It's interesting to see people (presumably) having exited the train to go on their way, along with the folks on the rear of the train.

The KG Tower was part of a block of local signal towers, along with WB Tower in Brunswick serving as the nerve center, and VO Tower (Weverton), which controlled all train traffic in the area. As was VO, KG was decommissioned sometime in the 1950s, which the WB Tower remained in operation until 2011.

Richard Bowers I think my grandfather, Elmer Bowers, was a telegrapher at the station. Later he was the agent in Brunswick. My grandmother's family operated the restaurant. A story my dad told was that when a passenger train stopped the Hickman's would board the train wearing aprons with extra pockets filled with sandwiches and desserts to sell to hungry passengers.

Ed Hartman I remember the tower. Was allowed to go up and see inside once 😀

(Photo courtesy of Point of Rocks Train Station)

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