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The Crescent City Special Gainesville GA, Atlanta GA, New Orleans LA October 11, 2017 RESERVE NOW 
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  • Not a Photo of the Southern Crescent... but worth a look... The Southern Crescent was an overnight long-haul passenger train operated by the Southern Railway between Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, Louisiana, with connections North and West in those ...
    Posted Aug 21, 2017, 5:27 PM by James Lilly
  • Our own Dover Harbor Touted as Classic A recent blog by former Trains Magazine Editor Kevin Keefe mentioned our own Dover Harbor as one of the rare heavyweights still roaming the mainlines of America AND available for ...
    Posted Aug 13, 2017, 6:45 PM by James Lilly
  • UPS vs. REA & Thanks Team UPS Baltimore Team UPS works on painting the side of the car.In the 1970s the Railway Express Agency (REA)  went out of business. One of its Chief competitors was the United ...
    Posted Aug 13, 2017, 6:48 PM by James Lilly
  • REA Baggage Car Restoration Picking up Steam DCNRHS' Railway Express Agency (REA) cars are notable in their history in that they were Railway REA cars assigned to the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) railroad.  Much ...
    Posted Jul 29, 2017, 10:33 AM by James Lilly
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Upcoming Seminars

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August 25, 2017 8:00 PM John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Silver Spring, MD B&O Station Kathleen Waters Sander will discuss her new book John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (JHU Press, published April 14, 2017). This meeting will take place at 8 pm at the B&O Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD. Sander teaches history at the University of Maryland University College. Free and open to the public. 
September 16, 2017 8:00 PM Picnic at Bowie Tower Martin F. O'Rourke Library at Bowie Tower (Bowie, MD) Our trackside late summer event returns this year,once again at Bowie Tower, the site of our Railroad Library and along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Bring a covered dish. Open to the public. 
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