The Point of Rocks train station, designed by E. Francis Baldwin, is at the junction of the B&O Old Main Line (running to Baltimore) on the left and the Metropolitan Branch (running to Washington, D.C.) on the right.
Two rails diverged in a wood. Point of Rocks, MD.
The sun sets on the Antietam National Battlefield, site of the bloodiest day in U.S. history. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after 12 hours of combat on September 17, 1862.
