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Avenue Metro, but if the line were ever abandoned the study recommended modifying the plan to use the rail corridor. In 2021, the
Maryland legislature passed legislation mandating the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) to promptly complete the design, engineering, and environmental reviews, and secure a federal record-of-decision on the project. In 2022, Congress approved a $ 5 million grant, matched by the state, for the project. In 2023, the legislature appropriated $ 100 million in the state budget for SMRT and the Red Line in Baltimore, and as a result the full planning was funded. But in 2024, the budget was cut from $ 30 million to $ 2.1 million, bringing the future of the project into question.
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Finally all passenger service from Bowie to Pope's Creek ended on
October 29, 1949. An excursion train road the line to Pope's Creek in 1955, possibly the last passenger train on the line that far south; but in 1966, Democratic Congressional candidate Harry A. Boswell, Jr. rented a locomotive and rail car for a campaign ride that went to Brandywine - because of the weight of the car and the condition of the rail the PRR wouldn't let him go any farther south. Boswell came in 3rd in the primary, losing to
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Salvage Company, which scrapped ships and sent the steel to the Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrow's Point via gondola. It also hauled occasional cars of coal, logs or beer. When it closed in August of 1962, the railroads south of La Plata went out of service and by 1965 traffic south of Brandywine had essentially discontinued. The same year, the PRR stopped running trains on the Cedar Point line south of
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2000, they reported that an upgrade had been completed to allow passenger travel but in June, following reports of several derailments, a
Maryland inspector again ruled that the tracks were unfit for passenger travel and the Navy ordered them to shutdown. Following a series of other lease violations, including storing two dozen derelict rail cars on the tracks, the lease was terminated in early 2001.
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into a rail trail since at least 2007. Despite completed plans in 2017 and a 2018 groundbreaking, the trail has yet to be constructed. In 2024, Phase I of the trail received a $ 1.8M grant from MDOT. In 2021, the county acquired
Gilligan’s Pier, a 17.54-acre site located along Popes Creek, bordered on the north by the rail line for the purpose of building a park adjacent to the rail trail.
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traffic, but the war necessitated a better connection. The road was opened on
Armistice Day - May 29, 1919 - but was not completed for actual service for several months. It continued to provide an important link for the production of powder during World War II. It continued to be used to bring coal, supplies and other materials to Indian Head until the early 1970's.
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Marlboro later in the summer and passenger trains there by November. The line to Pope's Creek was finished in late December, formally opened on January 1, 1873 and the first trains were run the next day. It was immediately relegated to branch status.
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The rail's right-of-way is being considered for a parallel light-rail project called the
Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Project. A 2017 study proposed running a light rail line alongside the Pope's Creek Subdivision from White Plains north to the county line and then from the rail line to the Branch
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In 1870, the B&P selected Pope's Creek as the point at which the railroad would connect to the
Potomac River because it was shorter, cheaper and more direct than any other option; and offered a desirable port which would allow for a steamboat connection to the RF&P. During that year they also
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National Capitol Planning Commission studied options for rerouting freight traffic around Washington, and two of the three options considered using the Pope's Creek Subdivision. One option took trains down to the Indian Head branch and then across the Potomac on a new 2.5 mile long rail
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including the tracks and 6 Long Island Railroad cars that had been abandoned by the IHCR, was donated to Charles County as part of the Federal Lands-to-Parks program in 2006 and the Navy's two locomotives were sold at auction. In 2007, Alcoa considered building a 950-megawatt coal-fired plant on the
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the Navy used German POW's to build a spur off the Pope's Creek Subdivision from White Plains to the Naval Powder Factory at Indian Head to aid in the production of smokeless powder (a propellant used in firearms and artillery). Prior to that a local "orphan railroad" had connected the base to barge
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to facilitate construction of that facility. When the Morgantown plant opened in 1970 it used fuel brought by barge, and some coal brought- mostly by truck. In 1973 traffic was so low that a spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Economic and Community Development said that no trains had run on
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Freight service also declined. After World War II, the Navy decided to close smokeless powder production operations at Indian Head. The SMECO power plant at Pope's Creek, which it had supplied with coal, went out of service in 1953 and the Navy stopped running trains to Patuxent River the next year.
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Much of the railbed of the abandoned section between Faulkner and Pope's Creek, including a rail trestle over Pope's Creek remains. The county acquired the abandoned Pope's Creek Railroad corridor south of Faulkner (and several adjacent properties) in 2014. It had been planning to turn the corridor
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With the failure of the tourist train the Navy briefly considered using the line to have coal delivered to the base, but found the investment required for repairs was too great, so in 2003 the Navy announced plans to donate the railroad line to Charles County for the creation of a trail. The spur,
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By 1871, B&P track had been lain from the Patapsco River through Bowie to Beaver Dam, and once that work was complete on Oct 25th, tracklayers started laying track from Bowie towards Marlboro. By early 1872 they had built a bridge over Collington Branch and by February they had built rail from
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at Cedar Point. In 1954 the Navy gave up ownership of the line and it was handed over to the Pennsylvania Railroad which, in 1962, built a spur from the north side of Hughesville to the new Chalk Point Generating Station to deliver coal and equipment. This track is called the Herbert Subdivision,
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The B&P ran two trains a day on the Pope's Creek line, a passenger train and a combination passenger/freight train from the time service started until 1921 when it increased the number to four trains a day. But in 1937, with dropping passenger service, it tapered down to just one train a day.
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The final spike for the Pope's Creek Branch was driven on June 10th, 1872 by Capt. John E. Whitter, who was in charge of construction, but the road needed to be ballasted before opening and was not ready when the line between Baltimore and Washington started passenger service on July 2, 1872. The
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and using the rail line to deliver the coal, but then decided that if they built the plant they would not need the rails. In 2008 the rails and ties were removed and recycled, and the line was converted to a rail trail that opened late in the year. The six LIRR cars were dismantled and scrapped.
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In 1999, the Navy gave "Northern Central Railways" permission to run a tourist train, known as the "Indian Head Central Railroad," (IHCR) on the line. The first train ran later that year on what the IHCR reported was a refurbished line and the IHCR ran an excursion train in March 2000. In May of
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refused to grant the PRR a charter to break the B&O's monopoly on Baltimore-Washington travel. The PRR saw the existing Baltimore and Potomac charter's clause allowing branches to be built within 20 miles (32 km) of Washington as an opportunity to get around that. The PRR joined into a
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closed the two coal-fired units at the plant in June 2021 reducing rail traffic to almost zero. The plant is scheduled for full decommissioning in 2027. In 2022 the Chalk Point switchers were moved out of state. Without coal trains there are no more regular customers on the subdivision.
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while the source of the name is not confirmed, one source attributes it to John C. Herbert, who was a Vice-President of PEPCO at the time. In 1965, the PRR quit running trains south of Hughesville and in the 1970's the track was removed, leaving Chalk Point as the only customer.
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Most of the stations on the route are gone, but not all. The La Plata train station has been turned into the La Plata Train Station Museum. It features a U.S. Navy caboose, still lettered for the U.S. Navy, that used to run on the Indian Head subdivision.
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to deliver coal starting in 1964. This spur was called the Herbert Subdivision. While the name of the line to Chalk Point is a not well documented, one source attributes it to John C. Herbert, who was a Vice-President of PEPCO at the time.
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The Pope's Creek Subdivision currently hosts 2 to 3 trains a week (a down and back rock train to Aggregate Industries in La Plata; a rock train to Chaney Enterprizes in Waldorf and an occasional local serving a few businesses in the
268:(NEC), was sold to Amtrak, and the line from Bowie to Faulkner was retained by Conrail. When Conrail was split in 1999, CSX Transportation was assigned the line. The power company owns the railroad line south of Faulkner.
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bridge to Arkendale, VA. Another option used the Pope's Creek subdivision all the way to Newberg, MD and then across the Potomac on a two-mile long railway drawbridge to Dahlgren, VA. The plans were never funded.
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with permission to build branches off the line not exceeding 20 miles in length. Surveying for the route began in 1855, but the company was not organized until December 19, 1858.
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the north to within two miles of Upper Marlboro and from the south a bridge over Pope's Creek where they had landed a locomotive and construction cars.
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667:"Baltimore and Potomac Railroad:Annual Meeting of the Stockholders--Reports of the President and Chief Engineer".
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have been closed, and there is no longer regular service to these points, but the lines have not been abandoned.
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Vogel, Steve (15 July 1999). "All Aboard! Navy Rail Track at Indian Head to Be Used by Tourist Train".
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Homan, Richard (30 August 1966). "Boswell's 2-Car Campaign Train Finds Few Voters in Boondocks".
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surveyed the entire route. Work on the line to Pope's Creek began before the end of the year.
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In the early 1970's, the line from Faulkner to Pope's Creek was scrapped.
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McConaty, Nancy Bromley. "Power plant might nix hiker/biker trail".
772:"A Trip Through Southern Maryland--Baltimore and Potomac Railroad".
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In the mid-1860's the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) had access to
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Singewald, Karl (10 July 1921). "Indian Head Proving Ground".
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Roloson, Kenneth F. (September 2003). "Herbert Subdivision".
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Roloson, Kenneth F. (September 2003). "Herbert Subdivision".
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Ownership of the old B&P line passed from the PRR to the
1664:"Pope's Creek Rail Trail construction could start next year"
1713:"County Acquires Open Space Funding for Pope's Creek Park"
1165:"CSX Freight Train Hauling Two Chalk Point EMD Switchers"
910:. Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society.
562:"The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Put Under Contract".
1553:"Budget cuts put Charles County Light Rail in jeopardy"
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Doss, Margot (2 September 1951). "Southern Courtesy".
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from the northeast. However, to travel southwest to
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1210:"Indian Head, MD, Navy rail line becoming a trail"
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1017:"Penn Central freights deemed unsafe kept open".
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174:The main line was connected to the NCRY when the
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1002:"Pepco Set to Start $ 133-Million Plant".
682:"Fatal Accident on the Potomac Railroad".
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512:"AFFAIRS IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY".
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652:"BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD".
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1285:"Indian Head Central Deliveries"
836:. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks Intl.
536:. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates.
458:List of CSX Transportation lines
312:Patuxent River Naval Air Station
154:Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad
1813:Rail infrastructure in Maryland
1186:"CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision"
1141:"2022 Maryland State Rail Plan"
1057:"CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision"
857:Wilson, William Bender (1895).
641:. Louis H. Everts. p. 353.
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1413:. La Plata, MD. Archived from
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577:"Important Railroad Matters".
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