BC and A S.S. Talbot at Cambridge, MD in 1920

This is from a postcard in my personal collection of the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway steamer S.S. Talbot docked at the Cambridge, MD wharf around 1920. L. Kaufmann & Sons produced this card & on the back it says, "Cambridge wharf is blessed with excellent railroad and steamboat facilities. Here is shown one of the palatial night steamers plying between Baltimore and Cambridge." The post card costs 1 cent for domestic mailing and 2 cents for foreign.

BC&A S.S. Talbot at Wharf, Cambridge, MD postcard (c1920).

Cambridge Station Combo

I wanted to combine all of the shots I have on file of the Cambridge, MD station into one post (so it doesn't have to be searched throughout this blog).

This is a 1908 postcard of the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Cambridge, MD station (facing west), Rudy Wilson collection.

U.S. Doughboys boarding a train at the Cambridge, MD depot (facing northeast) during WWI (Emerson Harrington Archives collection)

Cambridge, MD station (facing southwest) on June 10, 1965 by John P. Stroup from the Trackside on the PRR Delmarva Lines 1965-1967 (Morning Sun book).

Cambridge, MD station (facing northwest) in 2011 by the late Ed Sharpe.

PRR Cambridge, MD (facing southeast) on March 26, 2013 station by William T. Miller.

Cambridge, MD (facing southwest) in July 2014 by James E. Reaves.

Passenger Train in 1935

Here's a photo of a PRR passenger train heading either to or from Cambridge, MD in 1935, that's from the collection of Erick Windsor. According to Erick, it's between Linkwood, MD & Aireys, MD. It's hard to tell which direction the train is traveling, but being it's running with its tender on the opposite end of the cars, it appears that the locomotive hadn't gone around the wye at Phillips Packing Company. Maybe the crew ran around the train downtown by the station, & pulled it towards Phillips Packing to unload passengers? Again, this is a guess.

Also note that there is a lot of cars on this train. From the operational information I can gather, typical passenger trains on this line at this time averaged two coach cars & a baggage/railway post office car, but this is a fairly large train. Was it a special for the Phillips Packing company? Was it for someone else (like DuPont back in Seaford, DE)? Was their a special event in Cambridge to warrant running a train of this length? Was the special event in Seaford? Unfortunately, as of this date, I can't determine the back story on this photograph.

PRR passenger train at Cambridge, MD in 1935, Erick Windsor collection.