Dilapidated CSX Bridge Undercuts Progress Made by a West Baltimore Community

Equanna Fisher says she often watches students and bus patrons slip under the CSX railway bridge, where water spews out day and night from a broken pipe.

But on the morning of August 25, she witnessed something worse on the 2600 block of West North Avenue.

“I was just lighting a cigarette, and when I looked up, there was a man flat on the ground.”

The man was 69-year-old Curtis L. Brown. He says he was knocked semi-conscious by a piece of wood that fell through a crack between the bridge’s exposed railway ties.

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