CSX Transportation said today that the wall that buckled and sagged Monday on 26th Street is not owned by the railway but by Baltimore City, which is responsible for its inspection and maintenance.
Laura Phelps, a spokesman for the Jacksonville, Fla., conglomerate, confirmed reports given to The Brew by two sources that the upper concrete wall that partly collapsed yesterday is on city property, while a lower stone wall, owned by the railroad, was undamaged.
It was the upper wall, saturated with water, that pulled away from the city sidewalk on 26th Street near Calvert Street, shifting the wall southward toward the CSX line in the gully below.
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