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Pennsylvania Station, Baltimore

Baltimore–Penn Station
Amtrak intercity rail station
MARC commuter rail station
Baltimore Light Rail station
Baltimore Pennsylvania Station corrected.jpg
Location 1515 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland
United States
Coordinates 39°18′27″N 76°36′56″W / 39.30750°N 76.61556°W / 39.30750; -76.61556Coordinates: 39°18′27″N 76°36′56″W / 39.30750°N 76.61556°W / 39.30750; -76.61556
Owned by Amtrak
Line(s) Northeast Corridor
Platforms 3 island platforms (MARC and Amtrak)
1 side platform (Light Rail)
Tracks 8 (MARC and Amtrak)
1 (Light Rail)
Connections
Construction
Parking 550 spaces
Bicycle facilities Bike Share Stop #21 (16 docks)
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code BAL
History
Opened 1911
Rebuilt 1984
Previous names Baltimore Union Station
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 1,063,628 annually Increase 3.25% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
Acela Express
Vermonter
toward St. Albans
toward Charlotte
Carolinian
toward New Orleans
Crescent
toward Miami
Silver Star
Silver Meteor
toward Savannah
Palmetto
Northeast Regional
MARC
Penn Line
toward Perryville
MTA Maryland
toward Camden Yards
Light RailLink
Penn–Camden Shuttle
Terminus
Former services
Preceding station   Pennsylvania Railroad   Following station
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
toward Harrisburg
Northern Central Railway
Terminus
BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak
Montrealer
toward Montreal
toward Kansas City
National Limited
Hilltopper
Pennsylvania Station
Location 1525 N. Charles St.,
Baltimore, Maryland
Area 1.9 acres (0.8 ha)
Built 1911
Architect McKim, Meade, & White; Murchison, Kenneth W.
Architectural style Beaux Arts
NRHP reference # 75002097
Added to NRHP September 12, 1975
Location
Baltimore–Penn Station is located in Baltimore
Baltimore–Penn Station
Baltimore–Penn Station
Location within Baltimore

Baltimore Pennsylvania Station (generally referred to as Penn Station) is the main transportation hub in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by New York architect Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938), it was constructed in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is located at 1515 N. Charles Street, about a mile and a half north of downtown and the Inner Harbor, between the Mount Vernon neighborhood to the south, and Station North to the north. Originally called Union Station because it served the Pennsylvania Railroad and Western Maryland Railway, it was renamed to match other Pennsylvania Stations in 1928.

The building sits on a raised "island" of sorts between two open trenches, one for the Jones Falls Expressway and the other the tracks of the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The NEC approaches from the south through the two-track, 7,660-foot Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which opened in 1873 and whose 30 mph limit, sharp curves, and steep grades make it one of the NEC's worst bottlenecks. The NEC's northern approach is the 1873 Union Tunnel, which has one single-track bore and one double-track bore.

Penn Station is the eighth-busiest rail station in the United States by number of passengers served each year.


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