GG1 902 Southbound At Jericho Park - a photo on Flickriver

            Amtrak GG1 #902 leads a southbound passenger train through Jericho Park MD sometime in the late fall of 1974. The signals in the distance were the 119 automatics. The spur in the foreground went into what was then known as Bowie State College and led to a small coal fired power plant for the school. The track had been out of service for a number of years and the call box attached to the nearest catenary support pole is evidence of the spur and the switch's out of service status. The call box's door is propped open probably from when the signal maintainer took it out of service and removed the dispatcher's phone that was inside. Today (2020) the siding and the signals are long gone as are the GG1s and the original heritage cars that Amtrak had. This location is just north of MARC's Bowie State University station.
Original Kodachrome by Ray Slagle.
   

Taken on: December 1, 1974

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