‘Double-stacked’ trains arrive in Baltimore after tunnel expansion

By: Christine Condon

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: June 23, 2026

Words: 852

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Maryland officials gathered in the Dundalk area Monday to commemorate the arrival of the first “double-stacked” shipping containers arriving by rail to the Port of Baltimore, thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure improvements.

At the center of it all was downtown Baltimore’s Howard Street Tunnel, the underground rail line snaking roughly from Camden Yards to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

The brick-and-concrete tunnel, constructed between 1891 and 1895, had a vertical …

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