railway transportation
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- Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.
- An article in the Sept. 7, 1961, edition of the Herald Argus and Baltimore Countian reported on a hearing for a man accused of shattering the stillness at the start of a work week
- Possible delays to train service on the Penn, Brunswick and Camden lines on Wednesday following Tuesday's earthquake, as crews work to restore full service.
- Building the Harriet Tubman visitors center on the Eastern Shore is a good first step but adding a national park would complete the honor and add jobs
- A project that will be the centerpiece of an effort to honor Harriet Tubman is getting federal funding.
- The Harford County Parks and Recreation Department has funded a stone flower box for the base of the Daybreak sculpture on Route 24.
- Working artists from all over Howard County turned out to turn their leisure time into painted gold.
- Ten years after the Howard Street tunnel derailment and fire created chaos downtown and brought East Coast rail freight traffic to a halt, many of the conditions that led to the near-catastrophe remain.
- Margaret E. Faya, a retired medical records supervisor at Spring Grove Hospital Center, died of complications of an infection June 21 at Howard County General Hospital. The Columbia resident was 91.
- The Federal Transit Administration gives Maryland the green light to begin the engineering phase of construction of the east-west Red Line in Baltimore.
- Aaron Greenfield's work as a Baltimore attorney representing Holocaust survivors and family members earned him an invitation to join a special committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- John A. Moag Sr., a retired CSX executive who volunteered at St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church and the Franciscan Sisters, died Tuesday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 80.
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- The University of Maryland, College Park could look considerably different by 2020 if plans for a new light rail line and a new town center development on the east side of campus roll forward later this year.
- China's massive investment in high-speed rail threatens to leave U.S. back at the station
- Amtrak passengers in Maryland are beneficiaries of Florida's decision to turn down more than $2 billion in federal high-speed rail funds, as officials redirected nearly $800 million into Northeast Corridor infrastructure.
- Amtrak has announced it will spend $3.1 million to put up new, heavy-duty fencing along the stretch of track in Middle River where a 14-year-old girl was killed last year.