Entertainment: What is a Railroader?

By: Tiffany P. and Svati K.

Many of you may wonder who exactly is a railroader. We are all a proud part of the Brunswick Community, yet, we don’t know who our mascot actually is. A railroader is a person employed in the operation or management of a railroad. In simpler terms, a railroader is someone who works/worked on a railroad. There are many things they do. Railroad workers ranged from unskilled freight handlers to locomotive engineers, to those who built and repaired the rolling stock.

And you might be thinking, why is the mascot of Brunswick, a railroader? Well, because, the railroad played a huge part in Brunswick’s development. The history of Brunswick is the railroad itself. It started off with the B&O Railroad and the C&O Canal, which both came at 1834.

Now Brunswick is home to a commuter rail station serving Washington D.C, and the town became the middle for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which built a six mile long rail along the Potomac from 1891 to 1912, boosting the population to over 5,000and making Brunswick virtually a company town. The railroad reduced its’ yard operations in the 1950s!

Brunswick schools are one of the few Frederick County schools that incorporate their city history with their school mascot. That’s the reason we are Brunswick High, Middle and Elementary Railroaders!