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File:1918 B&O Track Map V17.3 6 - Brunswick East Yard.jpg (category 1918 B&O Railroad Track Maps) Provided courtesy of David McIntosh.(22,512 × 9,668 (17.55 MB)) - 09:16, 8 February 2024File:1918 B&O Track Map V17.3 8 - Brunswick West Yard.jpg (category 1918 B&O Railroad Track Maps) Provided courtesy of David McIntosh.(22,573 × 9,731 (19.59 MB)) - 09:31, 8 February 2024File:Wayne Runkles working in the Brunswick B&O Car Yard in the mid-'70s.jpg (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)(668 × 960 (164 KB)) - 20:05, 1 November 2019File:B&O Yard in the 1950s,Trains Sitting.jpg Trains sitting in the Brunswick yard in the 1950s. The Hump Speeder on the middle track. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)(2,048 × 1,629 (305 KB)) - 09:03, 14 November 2019File:B&O Eastbound Yards with a light dusting of snow.jpg The Eastbound B&O yards as the tracks on the right go around the bend past Walnut Street in Brunswick, taken after a light dusting of snow. The long tracks(680 × 960 (100 KB)) - 16:03, 14 November 2019File:Hawes, Clyde Sr., B&O yard Conductor, 1875 - 1914, Brunswick Brick Walk.jpg (1,700 × 2,178 (247 KB)) - 08:33, 19 December 2018File:Thompson, Jesse Claggett, B&O Yard Foreman, 1898 - 1974, Brunswick Brick Walk (1).jpg (1,700 × 2,183 (263 KB)) - 19:55, 20 December 2018File:Thompson, Jesse Claggett, B&O Yard Foreman, 1898 - 1974, Brunswick Brick Walk (2).jpg (919 × 1,353 (237 KB)) - 19:56, 20 December 2018File:Thompson, Jesse Claggett, B&O Yard Foreman, 1898 - 1974, Brunswick Brick Walk (3).jpg (986 × 1,542 (246 KB)) - 19:56, 20 December 2018File:B&O Yard Office - 1925.jpg (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum Museum)(2,048 × 1,536 (208 KB)) - 20:44, 14 November 2019File:East End B&O Railroad yards in the Winter of 1899.jpg The busy East End B&O Railroad yards of Brunswick in the Winter of 1899. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum and Brunswick Community Library;(2,048 × 1,547 (426 KB)) - 18:46, 13 December 2019File:East B&O yard in 1906.jpg The East B&O yard at Brunswick in 1906 at its peak as the largest railroad yard operation in the United States. (Photo courtesy of Phil Graves) Jacquelyn(2,048 × 1,680 (472 KB)) - 20:24, 12 November 2019File:Flood 1936 in the B&O Railroad yard.jpg A view of the 1936 flood in the B&O Railroad yard at Brunswick through the trees. See the rowboat navigating the waters with the Eastbound train station(526 × 889 (121 KB)) - 17:56, 15 September 2021File:B&O Yard 1972 Near East Potomac Street..jpg This B&O photo was taken in June of 1972 in the Brunswick yard near E. Potomac Street. (Original Kodachrome collection of J.L. Adams)(1,741 × 1,020 (507 KB)) - 15:18, 14 November 2019File:Steam locomotives smoke their way through the B&O yards in 1906.jpg steam locomotives smoke their way through the B&O yards in 1906, here's another reminder of why we call Brunswick "Smoketown". (Photo courtesy of Phil Graves)(2,048 × 1,530 (259 KB)) - 17:08, 12 November 2019File:Richard (Dick) Mullen ran the B&O Car Yard well for many years.jpg (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)(540 × 720 (56 KB)) - 20:57, 1 November 2019File:B&O gravity yards engine and crew circa early 20th Century.jpg Early 20th Century postcard of an engine and crew in the B&O gravity yards in the west end of Brunswick. (Courtesy of William Moore, administrator Historic(1,083 × 687 (272 KB)) - 16:15, 1 February 2020File:Herman (Nook) Deener Obituary from the Frederick News-Post, December 22, 2020.jpg graduated from Brunswick High in 1950 and immediately went to work for the Railroad in the Brunswick car yard near 'New Addition'. He and June were married(393 × 500 (27 KB)) - 07:03, 22 December 2020File:B&O policeman, Officer McGaha.jpg Anyone ready to cross this B&O policeman, Officer McGaha? This was on the day the first diesels were delivered to the Brunswick yards.--likely early 1940s.(2,048 × 1,308 (600 KB)) - 10:05, 25 August 2021File:B&O caboose in the mid-'70s..jpg The old B&O caboose on the railroad side of the old Karn's Lumber Yard in the mid-'70s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community(2,003 × 1,446 (357 KB)) - 09:57, 15 November 2019File:The B&O YMCA in its latter days - 1975.jpg (category Smoketown B&O YMCA) (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Jim--Some of the waitresses in the cafeteria(1,309 × 897 (185 KB)) - 12:13, 24 October 2019File:Switch engine 0-6-0 in Brunswick Yard.jpg Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) Page Liked · February 18, 2010 · Edited · · An old locomotive in the Brunswick Yards. The rooftops of Walnut Street(2,000 × 1,374 (370 KB)) - 08:32, 15 November 2019File:GBACC 2006 Membership List as of July 8, 2006 (2).jpg Alex Hood married and moved to Brunswick in 1891 to begin work as a foreman for the newly expanded B&O yards. In 1918 he organized and became Scoutmaster(2,190 × 1,692 (248 KB)) - 16:46, 23 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (2).jpg Citizen 1977 Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(1,700 × 2,196 (228 KB)) - 20:23, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (3).jpg Citizen 1977 Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(1,584 × 2,139 (570 KB)) - 20:23, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (4).jpg list for the event Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth(1,267 × 2,036 (397 KB)) - 20:23, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (5).jpg Citizen 1977 Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(813 × 1,636 (348 KB)) - 20:24, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (6).jpg Citizen 1977 Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(515 × 1,979 (285 KB)) - 20:24, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (7).jpg Citizen 1977 Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(461 × 1,267 (177 KB)) - 20:24, 12 February 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (8).jpg Marker Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked(250 × 188 (83 KB)) - 20:25, 12 February 2019File:Chessie System Trains.JPG from the Brunswick yards. Probably mid-70s. The Chessie System was formed as a holding company for the 3 railroads, C&O, B&O, and WM (owned by B&O), but(864 × 560 (125 KB)) - 18:35, 16 January 2023File:IMG 3357.JPG Agfachrome in the B&O railroad yard at Brunswick in 1976. According to Robert Foster, the engine looks like the engine was coming out of the roundhouse,(971 × 1,374 (270 KB)) - 16:52, 21 October 2021File:John Aaron Nixon (2).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(1,700 × 2,190 (213 KB)) - 13:43, 15 January 2019File:John Aaron Nixon (3).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(1,700 × 2,338 (585 KB)) - 13:43, 15 January 2019File:John Aaron Nixon (4).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(1,700 × 2,338 (395 KB)) - 13:44, 15 January 2019File:John Aaron Nixon (5).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(1,700 × 2,338 (420 KB)) - 13:45, 15 January 2019File:John Aaron Nixon (6).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(856 × 1,002 (239 KB)) - 13:46, 15 January 2019File:Howard B. Hovermale (1).jpg (1990) Hovermale, Howard B. (1884-1930) Honored 1977 Howard B. Hovermale came to Brunswick as a youth and clerked in the B&O yards. He served an apprenticeship(747 × 994 (61 KB)) - 20:22, 12 February 2019File:Trains! Everyone loves trains.jpg exception. I spent the first 9 years of my life living less than 30 feet from the main line of the B&O and little more than that from the crossing at Doubs(857 × 929 (88 KB)) - 17:17, 12 November 2019File:38 The Town Between the Tracks.jpg station is on the right. These were the final remains of the town between the tracks as the B&O railroad yards expanded in the 1890s. Many of the buildings(2,199 × 939 (413 KB)) - 08:25, 22 November 2019File:William Graham (Bill) Care Distinguished Citizen 1977 (1).jpg been a lifetime resident of Brunswick, serving in the Air Force in World War II and working on the B&O in the car yards and as a freight conductor. His(634 × 669 (38 KB)) - 07:14, 8 February 2019File:WB Tower around 1910.jpg Shewbridge brothers in the area who worked as telegraph operators for the B&O Railroad. (Photo courtesy of Bill Shewbridge) Norm Cornelius That WB has nothing(696 × 694 (73 KB)) - 11:00, 25 October 2019File:William Graham Care (1917 – 1991) Distinguished Citizen 1977.jpg War II and working on the B&O in the car yards and as a freight conductor. His business ventures were the Vets Cab and Amoco Service Station on Petersville(690 × 960 (50 KB)) - 07:20, 8 February 2019File:Budd Rail Diesel Car model RDC-2.jpg RDC-2. The RDCs were retired in the early 1990s. The last two left rusting away in the Brunswick MARC Yard just left late January 2010 for the B&O Museum(480 × 496 (39 KB)) - 09:51, 15 November 2019File:West Potomac Street, Brunswick in the Model T era.jpg is the house just cut out of the pic on the left, where the bushes lined the yard/hill. Lots of great memories on that block, wish we still had the house(1,974 × 1,209 (231 KB)) - 21:36, 26 November 2019File:President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1940 campaign train.jpg (category Smoketown In and Around) townsfolk as it passed through the B&O Yards at Brunswick. More photos to come. An early Sonny Cannon sound truck was visible in the Younkins film footage. (Photo(720 × 519 (46 KB)) - 06:44, 22 June 2021File:John Aaron Nixon (1).jpg Elizabeth Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories: (1858-1947) Honored 1977 Johnny Nixon started with the B&O when the yards were expanding in 1891 and worked as(375 × 550 (48 KB)) - 13:45, 15 January 2019File:Frank Brooks mowing the grass at his mother's house.jpg mowing the grass at his mother's house, which was located in a hollow across the street from Cooper's Tavern. Mr. Brooks worked in the B&O Car Yard. (From(700 × 990 (219 KB)) - 18:36, 3 July 2020File:BB Brust, Roy Long, Bill Lapole, Aubrey Mills..jpg In the B&O Yard at Brunswick. The library has these men listed as (l-r) BB Brust, Roy Long, Bill Lapole, Aubrey Mills. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection(2,048 × 1,588 (390 KB)) - 19:22, 1 November 2019File:William Graham (Bill) Care Distinguished Citizen 1977 (2).jpg been a lifetime resident of Brunswick, serving in the Air Force in World War II and working on the B&O in the car yards and as a freight conductor. His(1,700 × 2,338 (335 KB)) - 07:15, 8 February 2019