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The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland, is a former train station. Built in 1850, the station was an important rail transportation link during the Civil War. Today, it is the oldest surviving big-city railroad terminal in the United States and is home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum. ==History== The Baltimore and Port Deposit Rail Road (B&PD), founded in 1832, completed a rail line from Baltimore to the western shore of the Susquehanna River in 1837. The railroad’s Baltimore terminus was on the east side of the "Basin," now known as the Inner Harbor, at the southern end of President Street. The B&PD exchanged freight cars with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), which had built a track (along Pratt Street) to the east Basin area from its original Mount Clare depot on the western side of the business district.〔 The B&PD and its successor company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B), transferred passengers to the B&O downtown depot at Pratt and Charles streets by a horse-drawn car on B&O's connecting track. (The city prohibited the operation of locomotives on this track.)〔 By 1838, the PW&B was carrying passengers from Philadelphia to Baltimore, where they could transfer to the B&O and continue to Washington, D.C. The PWB started building its own station at President Street in 1849. The Greek Revival-style station opened on February 18, 1850. In addition to the brick head house, the original station also had a long barrel vaulted train shed over the tracks. The PW&B added a freight house, to the south of the passenger station, in 1852.〔 The station was involved in the Baltimore riot of 1861, when Massachusetts troops bound for Washington were marching to the B&O Camden Station ten blocks west and were attacked by an angry mob of Southern sympathizers, with several people killed in the ensuing melee.〔 In 1873, the Union Railroad built a new set of tracks in Baltimore, connecting the original PW&B main line with the Northern Central Railway (NCRY). The new connection ran through Union Tunnel to NCRY’s new Charles Street Station.〔 (This station was rebuilt twice, as "Union Station" and ultimately "Pennsylvania Station".) Charles Street Station and its successors largely replaced the President Street Station for passenger service. The latter continued to serve as a freight station, but served some passenger trains until 1911. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which acquired the PW&B in 1881, demolished the President Street train shed in 1913 and erected a new, shorter shed, built with wooden trusses.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「President Street Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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