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The Baltimore Streetcar Museum: Revitalizing the Site and Reusing the Bollman Truss Bridge
- Program: Civil and Systems Engineering
- Course: EN.560.402 Integrated Design Project
- Year: 2025
Project Description:
The Baltimore Streetcar Museum located on Falls Road offers a walk down Baltimore’s triumphant past of public transportation. There are many current issues regarding accessibility to the museum, stormwater management, and current structures with no use within its property lines. This project looks into the entire site plan of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. This includes a structural analysis of the Bollman truss that previously served streetcars and cars as the Lombard Street bridge from 1877 to the 1970s, and to reuse it as a car entry to the Maryland & Pennsylvania Roundhouse. A proposed plan of a pedestrian bridge that spans over Jones Falls was completed to connect a nearby light rail stop to the museum area, to bolster foot traffic into the area. Lastly, there are plans for revitalization and restoration of existing structures within the property lines to improve safety for visitors while tracking the floodplain.
Project Photo:
The proposed site plan for the Baltimore Streetcar Museum envisioned on AutoCAD, overlaid with a Google Earth photo of the current site