page_title: Baltimore Terminal Subdivision
section_title: Baltimore to Philadelphia
hierarchical_section_title: Baltimore Terminal Subdivision / History / Baltimore to Philadelphia
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior view of Mount Royal Station in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Built in 1896 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&amp;O). The B&amp;O ceased passenger train service at the station in 1961. The building is now used as part of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Image courtesy of the federal HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey of Maryland.
context_page_description: The Baltimore Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland. The line runs from Baltimore to Halethorpe along the original Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, one of the oldest rail lines in the United States and the first passenger railroad line. At its east end, it connects with the Philadelphia Subdivision; its west end has a junction with the Capital Subdivision and the Old Main Line Subdivision.
context_section_description: The B&O's initial route from Baltimore to Philadelphia was on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. The B&O operated a car float across the Baltimore harbor to bring trains from Philadelphia to connections at Locust Point and to the south and west. By the early 1880s this line was controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, which proceeded to deny access to the B&O.  The B&O then built the Philadelphia Branch (known formally as the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad).  To move trains more efficiently around the city it also built the Baltimore Belt Line and the Howard Street Tunnel during 1891 to 1895, at considerable expense. The car float operation was shut down after the new facilities opened.
  The Mount Royal Station, along the Belt Line, opened in 1896. This became the second of two Baltimore stops for the Royal Blue passenger train, which began service in 1890 between Washington and New York City. (The other stop was Camden Station.) Passenger traffic declined significantly after World War II and the B&O closed the Mount Royal station in 1961.
  The junction of the Philadelphia Branch and the Belt Line, in east Baltimore, is the northern terminus of the Baltimore Terminal Subdivision.
caption: Mount Royal Station in 1961
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