Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Jan 2, 2021

Amtrak's Dark Secret

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Here's something you may not know, Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is, occasionally, illuminated. The occasion being overnight Mainten...
Apr 3, 2018

'Ma & Pa' historical group to purchase land

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Photo: MDRails (Trains Magazine) MUDDY CREEK FORKS, Pa. – The Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Preservation Society, which operates ...
Mar 18, 2016

Aberdeen mayor promises continued city help with restoration of historic B&O station

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(The Aegis) Aberdeen Mayor Patrick McGrady pledged this week that the city would continue to support the ongoing community project to rest...
Mar 31, 2013

Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

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  (AP) History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsr...
Mar 24, 2013

Secrets of Duffy’s Cut Yield to Shovel and Science

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  (NYTimes) They laid his bones in a bed of Bubble Wrap, with a care beyond what is normally given to fragile things. They double-boxed...
Mar 17, 2013

The Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum

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  The Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum at Lemmon Street is a historic site that celebrates the history of the immense Irish prese...
Feb 18, 2013

Ollie the Flying Cow

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(Wikipedia) Elm Farm Ollie (known as "Nellie Jay" and post-flight as "Sky Queen") was the first cow to fly in an airpl...
Feb 14, 2013

Ma & Pa Railroad artifacts, photos, documents sought by preservation group

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  (Aegis) A new effort is under way to preserve the history of the iconic Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad that ran through the hea...
Jan 20, 2013

York's Civil War-era train closer to completion

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(YDR) A sign hangs on a former feed store along the Northern Central Railway tracks in New Freedom, announcing the home of "Steam In...
Jan 4, 2013

Tragedy at Chase

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(Wikipedia) The Maryland train collision occurred at 1:04 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line in the Chase ...
Dec 5, 2012

Glenn L Martin

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Martin TA-4J Skyhawk (Martin Museum) Glenn Luther Martin (January 17, 1886 - December 5, 1955). At the time he taught himself to fly in...
Nov 27, 2012

Clement Studebaker

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  (Wikipedia) Clement Studebaker (March 12, 1831 – November 27, 1901) was an American carriage manufacturer. With his brothers, he founde...
Nov 25, 2012

1940: First flight of the Martin B-26 Marauder

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(Wikipedia) The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The first US medi...
Nov 24, 2012

Nov. 24, 1903: Starting Your Car Gets a Bit Easier

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1903 (Wired): Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter. Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, ...
Nov 23, 2012

Henry Bourne Joy

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(Wikipedia) Henry Bourne Joy (November 23, 1864 – November 6, 1936) was President of the Packard Motor Car Company, and a major developer o...
Nov 17, 2012

Stewartstown Railroad line abandoned by federal board

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  (YDR) A federal board ruled Friday that it has granted the abandonment of the 7.4-mile line of the 127-year-old Stewartstown Railroad...
Nov 14, 2012

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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(Wikipedia) Charles Carroll of Carrollton (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832) was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate ...
Oct 1, 2012

Pennsylvania Turnpike

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(Wikipedia) ... When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940, it was the first long-distance rural highway in the United States an...
Sep 22, 2012

Efforts to preserve Stewartstown Railroad focus on fund raising

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(YDR) Friends of the Stewartstown Railroad , an independent group, is pursuing its fund raising effort that began in 2009. More recently, ...
Sep 20, 2012

Maryland House's historic art to be preserved, but won't return

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(Aegis) The Maryland House on I-95 near Aberdeen may be known more for its fast food and bevy of bathrooms than for fine artwork, but its m...