Talk:B&O Railroad Museum

Mount Clare Station
Can we get a picture of the old Mount Clare _station_, in addition to the existing photographs of the shops? Might the museum be willing to give us permission to use one of their pictures, if needed?

Hersbruck (talk) 15:55, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Roundhouse?
The article characterizes the museum's main building as a "roundhouse". I think most railroaders and WP:EN itself disagree. At Roundhouse, we have:
 * "A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives."

The subject building was never used for locomotives -- it was used for the construction of passenger cars. In fact, the Mount Clare Shops had a roundhouse, which had been constructed about thirty years earlier.

At Mount Clare Shops, the building is described:
 * "A circular (actually 22-sided) passenger car shop, sometimes mislabeled as a roundhouse, was designed by noted architect E. Francis Baldwin and completed in 1884." [emphasis added]

Unless there is substantial objection, I intend to change the article to use "circular passenger car shop" or similar language throughout. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 22:37, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The museum's own website calls the building the Roundhouse, even with note that it was originally the passenger car shop (and that there was another roundhouse down the road). See for example the Museum History page, a PRNewswire item about it, and the Museum's main page about the building. Sure reasonable to say it's not technically within that definition, but I think we need to keep calling it what they call it. DMacks (talk) 01:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Agree with the correction. The 1984 HAER study of the Passenger Car Shop (which was cited in the Mt. Clare article) states that the building is "... commonly misidentified as a roundhouse." The confusion has been exacerbated by the B&O Museum's own publications. Just because the museum staff hasn't done its homework doesn't justify continuing the error. They are capable of making corrections. Caseyjonz (talk) 04:09, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment We have to stick with what the sources say.  If they call it the "Roundhouse," so should we, with a note about its true nature if it can be reliably sourced.  Published self-identification supports verifiability, which unfortunately trumps truth on Wikipedia.  Go with the sources, or find better ones to support your position.  Anything else is OR or Synthesis.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 05:04, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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