(rshsdepot) Sykesville, Md. Reopens PRR Tower as PO and Visitors Center

["Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <LNER4472_@_bcpl.net>]

Baltimore Sun Carroll Co. Edition, 4-17-2003:

"Amid cheers from state, county and postal officials, Sykesville 
formally opened its visitors center and the first-of-its-kind satellite 
post office in a reconstructed railroad tower.

To mark the inaugural celebration last week, the post office, operating 
on the first floor of the building, issued commemorative cancellations 
on postcards picturing the Old Main Line Visitor Station."

Full Story at:

 
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/carroll/bal-ca.tower17apr17,0,4431381.s
tory?coll=3Dbal%2Dlocal%2Dcarroll

"The building [the former PRR tower at the B&P Interlocking just west of 
Baltimore's Penn Station) arrived in Sykesville five years ago in pieces 
via the city of Bowie [home of another railroad tower museum], which had 
acquired the walls, windows and other amenities after Penn Station 
removed the tower to make way for additional commuter lines.

Volunteers carted three truckloads of the remains of the 
1,400-square-foot tower and stored it around town where they could find 
space. They saved everything: windows, wainscoting, copper pieces, 
brackets, molding, roof tiles and a cumbersome control box."

Alexander D. Mitchell IV

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