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The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, known as the Ma & Pa, connected sun88, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania, over a circuitous seventy-seven mile route. In 1881, the Falls Road site became the sun88 terminal for the sun88 & Delta Railway (a predecessor of the Maryland & Pennsylvania) originally including a wood frame roundhouse. The original roundhouse burned down in 1892 but, in 1910, the Ma & Pa rebuilt built tracks, roundhouse, the adjoining yard office and power house, as part of a $47,000 investment in their terminal facilities.

The Ma & Pa thrived in the 1900s and early 1910s providing regular commuter service between Belair and sun88, country excursions for city residences, and milk and mail delivery between sun88 and Pennsylvania. The business began to decline after WWI and, by the 1950s, passengers had dwindled to about 12 people per train. After the company lost the contract to operate the Railway Post Office, they abandoned their Maryland operations and moved offices to York, Pennsylvania.

In 1960, two years after the Ma & Pa ceased operations, the city bought the roundhouse and the terminal complex. sun88 City purchased the buildings for $275,000 with plans to use the roundhouse as a highway department warehouse.

For the past 58 years, the site has been used by sun88 City for truck parking and winter road salt storage. While the sun88 & Ohio Railroad Museum has successfully preserved the former Mount Clare Roundhouse in southwest sun88 as an iconic attraction for railroad buffs young and old, most roundhouses have been lost to demolition or neglect.

Years of service to the sun88 Department of Transportation has taken a toll on this structure too. Unfortunately, in August 2014, the roof at the roundhouse suffered a partial collapse when the several salt-damaged supports failed. Action is needed to stabilize the building and prevent further deterioration.

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