Scott Calvert – Page 5

Business is slow: Nate James, at his sidewalk stand, said traffic is slack because the light rail is not operating.

For Howard Street, it's been rough road

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Pity poor Howard Street. Baltimore's once-proud commercial center has suffered all manner of indignity since the 1970s. Jilted by a California developer promising a rebirth. Abandoned by department stores for...

Guiding the train: Paul Rahn is at the controls of the CSX locomotive that marked the resumption of freight traffic through the tunnel.

After early morning trial run, freight traffic resumes in tunnel

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

A whiff of smoke penetrated the sealed cab of the diesel engine as Paul Rahn eased a mostly empty 29-car freight train through the fire-scorched Howard Street Tunnel yesterday. The...

Removing barriers: A worker moves a traffic barrier at Mulberry and Paca after east-west streets were reopened last night.

Howard St., tunnel reopen

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Five days after a train derailed and caught fire in a tunnel beneath Baltimore, city officials offered news last night bound to surprise and relieve commuters who had been stuck...

Disaster experts to the rescue

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

The train fire in the Howard Street Tunnel was terrible for Baltimore, the CSX railroad and the Orioles. But for an elite group of companies it meant big business. Almost...

'The hardest part is over'

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Firefighters declared victory last night over a railroad tunnel fire they had battled for more than four days, and investigators and engineers began working to determine why the incident occurred...

Plans to repair water main hit another snag

April 6, 2019 at 5:53 a.m.

Fixing the broken water main at Howard and Lombard streets - a breach that pushed 60 million gallons of water onto downtown streets Wednesday night - has gotten trickier. Public...

Rail accident linked to water main break

May 30, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

City public works officials believe a downtown water main burst after a fire raging in a rail tunnel below it heated the 90-year-old cast-iron pipe beyond the breaking point, turning...

'Hidden historical asset of Baltimore' was born of necessity

April 6, 2019 at 5:52 a.m.

The 1.7-mile Howard Street Tunnel that billowed smoke yesterday is not a prominent part of the Baltimore landscape, not a source of great civic pride. Yet the tunnel, mostly ignored...

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