Mount Clare is considered to be the birthplace of American railroading. An HO layout operates on the 2nd floor, along with a display of vintage railroad station clocks. A small movie theater shows movies. There are also extensive outdoor collections of engines, cars, cranes, and other railroad equipment.
Trips use vintage diesels as motive power.
Many of the photos shown on the page are from my visit to the museum in 1992. In fact, the turntable is inside the building. Trains magazine listed it as one of the top ten shrines of American railroading. The roundhouse was designed by noted Baltimore architect Ephraim Francis Baldwin, and built in 1884. Baldwin was a devout Roman Catholic, and his great dream was to build a cathedral for the City of Baltimore.