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Summary

The empty, decaying roundhouse in its final days in 1995. Despite a thousand signatures on a petition to save it, the CSX moved forward to demolish it in 1996. It was a sad day in Brunswick to all who worked there and remember it fondly.

Susan Alexander My father, Floyd Waters, worked on the B&O Railroad. One day he took me down to the roundhouse (We lived on Walnut Street) and I got to see an engine being turned around. What a wonderful sight. I wish it was still there. So much history.

Terry Himes Robinson I worked at the roundhouse as a Laborer, fueling engines and operating the turntable were just some of my jobs. I remember one night Neal Wilhelm and I were putting the engines away in the roundhouse. The last one was at the far right set of doors. Neal shut the doors and was walking over to get on the turntable. All at once the doors burst open and the engine was rolling out!! I hurried to get the turntable lined back up as Neal started running. We didn't get there fast enough and the engine did a dive into the pit!! One of many memories I have of my railroad days!

Tim George My Dad is a retired conductor, and whenever he would swing by his workplace when I was little, I could remember looking in the windows and there were always a bunch of employee’s Harleys parked inside the roundhouse.

Charles Foster If my memory serves me, it was demolished on a Sunday before most people were out of bed.

(From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission)