BALTIMORE — A celebratory atmosphere at Mount Royal Station in Baltimore for work completed on time and within budget to expand the historic Howard Street Tunnel making way for double-stack freight trains.

"We’ve been actually running trains near here, taking the containers off of the train, go around the tunnel, put them back on another train so we can keep serving our customers at our expense,” said CSX President & CEO Joe Hinrichs, “We did that really starting on February 1 to now.”

CSX shut down the tunnel as workers spent months cutting out the existing rails, excavating the tunnel’s bed to allow for the taller loads and laying new track over a span of 8,700 feet or one-point-six miles---improvements first envisioned decades ago.

“From the moment that I got in, this Howard Street

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