The LPB Loop continues under Fort Avenue, and curls into the South Locust
Point Marine Terminal, which can handle large vessels, such as that at
distant right. In the foreground, oversized (extra height) "Big Blue"
boxcars have little to do but work on their tan.
Between 1840 and 1850, coal production in the USA quadrupled. By 1880,
B&O was hauling almost 2 million tons of coal annually for export
from Locust Point. Shortly after that, Pennsylvania RR opened a
competing terminal across the harbor at Canton and siphoned off
some of B&O's coal business. Subsequently, B&O moved its coal
operations to Curtis Bay and left Locust Point to handle mostly
containerized shipments.
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