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rlkitterman — Point of Rocks Station
Published: 2014-02-08 13:27:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 542; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 9
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This Gothic station in Point of Rocks, Maryland was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873. It sits at the junction of the Washington-Brunswick line and the Baltimore-Brunswick line, just across the Potomac River from Virginia. The station building itself is closed to the public and used as a CSX office, but the platforms are used by MARC commuter trains. I wanted to stay here for a while and wait for a train to pass, but there was a CSX track gang at work, and I left as soon as I saw a couple of them get into a truck and start driving toward me. Maybe they just wanted to get equipment from the office, but I'd rather miss seeing a train than get arrested.Related content
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Leave it too CSX, they try too harass anyone with a camera no matter where they are standing.
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CSX has always struck me as a rather unfriendly railway; it also seems almost actively opposed to having a heritage program comparable to the ones run by UP and NS.
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I know I have been confronted, and threatened to have the police called on me for photography of CSX from a public street. I tried my best too inform the .... well I am not too sure what too call him since terms like sir and gentleman are far too kind for the way he behaved. I informed him of my constitutional rights under the 1st amendment, asked if I was on his property and when he said no and continued too harass me and threatened too call the cops, I politely told him how he could go pleasure himself in not the nicest way and walked past him. 10-15 minutes later and having moved maybe 100 yards downtrack total, the cops never showed on this street that sees one car about every 15 minutes.
I don't know where you live but in West Virginia, you don't have to show ID to a cop unless they suspect you are about too commit a crime, are committing a crime, or have committed a crime. Unless you are driving of course. They can get in real trouble if they take your camera, film, or memory cards with out due process (4th amendment against unreasonable search and seizure).
This is especially more dangerous if they do so, since the activity you are doing (photography or videography) is a protected 1st amendment activity. as long as you are not on RR property you should be fine.
Truthfully most of the tiem this happens, it's local supervisors getting uppity about it and not the actual workers. I have a couple shots from the same location about 2 months later and the engineer is waving out the window as he passes.
If you have any questions I will do my best too help answer them.
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My late husband had a model of this building on his HO layout. I remember that the original model was made of posterboard from a book. He later took it apart and scratch-built it in balsa, using the original as a template.
Sadly, last I saw, it had been repurposed as an N-scale church by the modeler who'd received it as a gift upon my husband's passing.
Thank you for bringing back this memory.
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You're very welcome! Was he from the Washington DC area?
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Maryland, actually!
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