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Camp Alger
Dunn Loring Station

Camp Alger was opened in May 1898. It was 1.5 miles from the Southern Railway
station at Dunn Loring. To accommodate the influx of soldiers and material for
the new camp, the Southern added a number of yard tracks to the Dunn Loring
station. There was also a wye added for turning the locomotives used to bring
trains out from Washington and Alexandria. Because of a severe typhoid epidemic
caused by poor water and sanitation, the camp was closed in November 1898
and the Southern removed all the added facilities sometime thereafter.

Photo Credit: W&OD Railroad Collection, NOVA Parks