Old Main Line Subdivision
The Old Main Line Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of Maryland. The line runs from Relay west to Point of Rocks, and was once the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, one of the oldest rail lines in the United States. At its east end, it has junctions with the Capital Subdivision and the Baltimore Terminal Subdivision; its west end has a junction with the Metropolitan Subdivision.
Eastbound coal train on the Old Main Line Subdivision at Monrovia in 2011
Ellicott City Station, built 1830, is the oldest surviving passenger station in the United States. Photo taken in 1970, looking south towards Baltimore.
Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466.
Aerial image, 1930
An aerial view of Point of Rocks
Historic St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1841 by enslaved men and women of the Duval Plantation and consecrated in 1843, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Captain Samuel C. Means, who organized the Union Army-aligned Loudoun Rangers