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Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in an 1875 advertisement in Boyd's Directory. The leading advocate for expanding the railroad system into southern Maryland was Walter Bowie, who wrote newspaper articles and columns under the pen name Patuxent Planter and who joined Thomas Fielder Bowie, William Duckett Bowie, and Oden Bowie (later Governor of Maryland), in lobbying the Maryland General Assembly ...
The portion of this service as far west as Catonsville is now served by Route 23; Ellicott City service is offered on a limited basis by Route 150. When the Central Light Rail Line opened in 1992 along part of the old interurban line, Route 14 was truncated to the Patapsco stop during Light Rail operating hours, with selected trips deviating to ...
On 11 March 1861 the Baltimore, Catonsville and Ellicott Mills Passenger Railway Company was formed to service the towns of Catonsville, Oella, and Ellicott City with horse-drawn cars on the turnpike right-of-way. The company agreed that the line would not use steam trains or carry freight. Trips between Catonsville and Baltimore took two hours.
The Baltimore Light RailLink network consists of a main north-south line that serves 28 of the system's 33 stops; a spur in Baltimore city that connects a single stop (Penn Station) to the main line; and two branches at the south end of the line that serve two stops apiece.
Route 77 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in the suburbs of Baltimore.The line currently runs from the Old Court Metro Subway Station in Pikesville, Maryland, to the Patapsco Light Rail Stop and serves Randallstown, Windsor Mill, Woodlawn, Catonsville, Arbutus, Halethorpe, and Lansdowne as well as the campuses of UMBC and CCBC Catonsville (formerly Catonsville ...
The Catonsville region and the surrounding Patapsco River valley remained unsettled for much of Maryland's early history, as early communication depended on major bodies of water, and not by land. Before the first settlers arrived, the region of present-day Catonsville served as hunting grounds, and was known in the 17th century and early 18th ...
It's not known yet if a new station would be built to connect passengers directly in Des Moines or if trains would stop at the existing Amtrak station in Osceola, about 45 minutes south of the city.
The Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad (reporting mark PBR) was a Class III switching and terminal railroad, operating in Baltimore County. Owned for the majority of its existence by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation , the railroad primarily served Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Terminal area.