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The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station, an imposing Victorian Gothic structure located at Sixth and B Streets, NW, opened in 1873. Trains belched smoke along tracks that crossed the Mall and many considered the station an eyesore, including James Garfield, who called it a "nuisance which ought long since to have been abated." The station was torn down, in 1908, after Union Station rendered it obsolete. |