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great view of Brunswick and the B&O Yard that was likely taken from a small plane using the air strip you can see on the lower left. The airstrip was located

B&O Railroad workers in the Brunswick yard - mid-70s Bill Brown is standing on the far right. The two men bending over with shovel and pic are George Hoffman

Ray Soderberg's outstanding photos of the B&O yard at Brunswick in 1976. See the roundhouse and water tower in the background. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg)

The B&O car yard and Eastbound Hump. See the Tower on the right. Train cars heading to the east coast were consolidated on the west end of the Brunswick

B & O Gravity Yard. The 7-mile long B&O yard in Brunswick was the largest in the United States for at least 70 years. (Photo courtesy of David Cage) Reuben

Train in the B&O yard at Brunswick in 1975. The old YMCA is on the left. The WB Tower and roundhouse are to the right. (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg)

photo of the B&O yard in Brunswick in the early 1950s. See the westbound station on the far left, the roundhouse and coal tipple in the middle, and the eastbound

courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Reuben Moss Note: the strange paths and the area in the foreground...thats grass (now all gravel and asphalt).

Maybe the best way to caption this hazy view of the east end Brunswick B&O yards in the early 20th century? "The Air of Smoketown" According to Reuben

The B&O Railroad and the C&O Canal Company both reached Berlin in 1834. The railroad employed a small section gang here and the village was a canal town

According to John Suscheck in the comments under the photo: "This is ex-B&O High Dome and it was sold from the Lake Shore Chapter NRHS to MARC Rail near Baltimore

Postcard of the original B&O roundhouse in Brunswick, which was replaced as part of the 1907 infrastructure improvement that included the YMCA and the west half

The Brunswick yard in the mid-'60s above and under the shadow of the bridge. By this time, the railroad business was waning in Brunswick as the B&O had

add the numbers of the cars as they passed the depot and get the right answer. Phil Lowery: I would ride my bike down the gravel behind the YMCA and walk

in Brunswick Hard in October 1918 From The Lovettsville, VA Historical Society and Museum, June 2020 In the photo: The "influenza staff" at the B&O Hospital

was the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood in the Brunswick railroad yard. The old Eastbound Station was still standing then across the tracks, as was the green

Welders in the Brunswick B&O car yard in the 1970s. Fred Kretzer and Ron Truitt. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library;

Brunswick Railroad On the back of the post card: After 1980 YMCA fire. Railroad Park (bell mounted in glass case). Presented by the BO RR on the 75th anniversary

from Brunswick High School in 1943, having worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving in the Marines, he returned to the B&O here

of the B&O Railroad) and John Sell (Yard Master in the Car Yard) Photo courtesy of Reuben Moss Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) A Diamond Jubilee is

of the pumphouse and water tub construction shows a view of the Brunswick yard operations looking eastward under New York Hill. (Photo from the B&O Railroad

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

worked on the B&O as a yard checker before graduating. After serving with the Marines, he returned to the B&O here in 1946. His rise in the managerial

who worked on the B&O Railroad for many years, brought the tires and tire rails from the Brunswick yard. Mr. Jelly was famous for marking and separating his

Scheer was the General Manager of the B&O's Eastern Lines. The Stadium, all the teams (Both the regional league team seen in this image and the local league

Unique view of the train yard in Brunswick back in 1975. See the bookends of the WB Tower (left) and B&O YMCA (right). (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg)

young Dick Mullen. Dick ran the B&O car yard in Brunswick for many years. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick

canal and railroad town to one focused on the B&O, the longest hump yard in the United States for much of the Twentieth Century. As you can see, the siding

photo from the bridge of what appears to have been after the 1959 consolidation of its freight yard operations to Cumberland led to the B&O shifting many

south of the westbound track on the west side of Virginia Avenue. Around 1907, Mr. George took over the business and moved up the hill to the corner of

Charles T., Sr. and Agnes Weedon Smallwood. Charles worked for the B&O Railroad for 37 years, including the shop, car yard and roundhouse. He was honored

also served as Chief Surgeon of the B&O, Brunswick's Health Officer and Mayor from 1906-14, looking out the window. The interior was typical of an early

days of the West End of "Main Street" after the city migrated up the hill from between the tracks when the B&O expanded its Brunswick yard operations.

Center on Friday, July 28,2017. Born March 16,1927 in Brunswick he was the son of the late William F. and Mary G. Good. He was predeceased by his wife Virginia

December 1889, just months before the arrival of the B&O railyard transformed quiet Berlin into the boomtown of Brunswick.1 After a year had passed, Cannon

(From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)

(From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Courtesy of Smoketown History

B&O Yards in Brunswick with the Gross Store on the right looking west - 1950s? Please let us know if you know what was going on that so many people were

Another view of the eastern B&O yard at Brunswick. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)

(Photo courtesy of Brunswick Heritage Museum) Phil Lowery: Interesting I saw the rails being lifted, stone put under the ties, and spikes driven with one

(From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)

locomotive in the east end of the Brunswick B&O yard. This photo was featured in conjunction with the 2017 Smithsonian “The Way We Worked" exhibit at the Brunswick

photo from the 2017 Smithsonian exhibit at the museum on "The Way We Worked" shows a blacksmith setup to support early construction of the B&O yard at Brunswick

Provided courtesy of David McIntosh.

Provided courtesy of David McIntosh.

Provided courtesy of David McIntosh.

(From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)

Trains sitting in the Brunswick yard in the 1950s. The Hump Speeder on the middle track. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)

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

(Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum Museum)

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;

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

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

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)

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)

(Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum)

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

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

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.

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

(From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Jim--Some of the waitresses in the cafeteria

Smoketown History (Brunswick, Md.) Page Liked · February 18, 2010 · Edited · · An old locomotive in the Brunswick Yards. The rooftops of Walnut Street

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

Delaware Avenue, “B” and “C” Streets, Brunswick’s Beth Israel synagogue (the first in Frederick County), the Reformed Church of Brunswick, and numerous homes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

workers for the government and private industry in and around Washington, DC. Remembering the battle to get a new high school built after the B&O switching

later moved up the hill after the B&O expanded the railroad yards where the family sold high quality merchandise for 78 years.. Most of the family lived

later moved up the hill after the B&O expanded the railroad yards where the family sold high quality merchandise for 78 years.. Most of the family lived