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Location of the Point of Rocks Train Station/Depot during The War

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The caption on the train station photo implies that this is the actual site of the raid on the train at Point of Rocks at the time of the Catoctin Station raid.

This is not the site of the station during the War, but is the current station built sometime after 1875 at the new junction (then called Washington Junction) of the new B&O Main Line (Metropolitan Line) directly to Washington, D.C.

During the War, the Point of Rocks train station was located about 1/2 mile to the west in the old town, either at the road crossing into the C&O National Historical Park, or closer to the present day tunnel where the telegraph operator office was known to exist during the War, but more on the outskirt of the center of town. The main commerce and warehouses were in the vicinity of the railroad crossing today.

Catoctin Station does not have any building remaining today, but was located just west of the present day Lander Lockhouse, about 3 miles west of the current Point of Rocks Train Station.

As a note, the 2 tunnels between Point of Rocks and Brunswick were not blasted through until after the war, but mistakenly included in some post-War illustrations when the artist(s) revisited the site and assumed the tunnels were there during the War. Pepper Scotto (talk) 12:31, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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