By the early 1900s, PRR stopped at Lafayette and Calverton, also known as Gwynns Falls, west of Baltimore, serving local residential areas.

[9] The Spanish Mission style station, constructed of red brick with a terra-cotta tile roof, was designed by PRR staff architect William Holmes Cookman.

[13] The stairs and platforms were removed, but the station building remains in place as a private business, which it had been converted to prior to the stop's closure.

[10] In 2009, it was announced that approximately 400 parking spaces east of Pulaski Street would be added, as part of the project to remove the portion of Interstate 170, which is now Route 40, that never carried vehicular traffic.

West Baltimore station has attracted criticism for being unsafe due to the poor conditions of the platforms and staircases, which are crumbling and rusted.

The platforms are planned to be extended to serve more cars per train and raised for accessibility, and ramps built to surrounding streets.

The Red Line light rail service, originally planned to begin construction in 2015 prior to cancellation of the project that year opened in 2022; however, it was resurrected in 2023, and construction is scheduled to begin in 2026 or 2027, is to run along the Route 40 corridor in the median of the highway underneath the elevated city streets with a stop at West Baltimore.