BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Streetcar Museum has received $165,000 in city funding for its project to develop a new campus at a former Maryland & Pennsylvania roundhouse near its current location.
The museum said in a Facebook post that the money, in fiscal 2026 and 2027 from the City of Baltimore Cultural Spaces Capital Support Fund, will allow initial work to begin to secure the structure in advance of “a phased transformation” in future years. The roundhouse is at 2601 Falls Road in Baltimore, just a half-mile from the museum’s current site at 1901 Falls Road.
According to the website Baltimore Heritage, the roundhouse dates to 1910, replacing a structure that burned down in 1892. Following the end of Ma & Pa operations in Maryland, the city of Baltimore bought the roundhouse and surrounding terminal complex for $275,000 and has used it to park city trucks and store road salt. Part of the roof collapsed in 2014 when salt-damaged supports failed.
The Streetcar Museum dates to 1970, and now operates a collection of equipment dating as far back as 1888 on about 1¼ miles of trackage. More information is available at its website; to donate to the new campus or other projects, visit this page.
