Mount Clare Shops

The Mount Clare Shops is the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ross Winans and Phineas Davis, pioneers in locomotive design, built their inventions at Mt.

[4]: 363  The first iron railroad bridges, designed by Wendel Bollman, were built in the Mt.

A roundhouse, engine service and car shops, and a new depot were also built at Mt.

A circular (actually 22-sided) passenger car shop, sometimes mislabeled as a roundhouse, was designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin and completed in 1884.

Air-conditioned passenger cars were developed by the B&O and the Carrier Corporation at Mt.

The railroad abandoned use of the circular car shop in 1953 and made it available for use by the museum.

[8] The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) purchased the B&O, also in 1962, and subsequently locomotive repairs were handled at the B&O shops in Cumberland, Maryland.

[1][8] CSX Transportation, the successor railroad company, sold portions of the property, and 40 acres (160,000 m2) of the Mt.