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his aerial photo, taken in 1967, shows Dundalk Marine
Terminal from Broening Highway to the Patapsco
River. On the right hand side of the image, Colgate
Creek is spanned by a streetcar line. Today, a vehicle
bridge crosses the creek connecting the Dundalk and Seagirt
marine terminals.
The area on the north side of the creek would be expanded
STORY BY KATHY BERGREN SMITH
Streetcar Line Once Crossed Colgate Creek
to create Baltimore’s container port at Seagirt, but not until
1989. This is the year construction began on the Fort McHenry
Tunnel, which takes Interstate 95 across the harbor. As the
tunnel was dug, fill material was deposited in the area to build
the terminal. Today, the area in the photo just offshore of the
entrance to Colgate Creek is the location of the newly deepened
and modernized Berth IV, with four super-post-Panamax cranes.
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