Race Track Spur Trestle Looking West

            This is a view to the west of the Bowie Race Track Spur trestle last used by the Penn Central in 1971 just before Amtrak took over passenger operations from the PC. This photo was taken in August 1988 with a not so great Pentax point and shoot whose door had a tendency to fly open without warning thereby fogging the film inside. 
The trestle dates to 1914 when the onetime Washington Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad built the spur off of their mainline just ahead to access the new Bowie Race Track. In the fall of 1935 the Pennsy took over operations of the Race Track trains after the WB&A went out of business. The PRR built a connector track from their mainline to the WB&A mainline, then reconfigured the wye junction for turning the PRR trains making the southbound WB&A main as a tail track. It was about a half mile long and went underneath Bowie Race Track Rd which had bridged the WB&A on a wooden overpass. The wooden overpass remained in use long after the passenger specials ceased and was ultimately replaced with a fill in September 1988.
   

Taken in: United States / Maryland / Patuxent Riding (show map)

Taken on: August 1, 1988

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Camera: Pentax Point and shoot, 40mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax Point and shoot
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	100
Color Space:	Unknown (-1)
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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