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    Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Herbert C. Forrester Jr., CSX official

    Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88.
    Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of...

    Tags: Roman Catholicism, Christianity, University of Baltimore, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief

    2. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. James G. Thompson, banker

    James Gabriel Thompson, a retired savings and loan association president, died of cerebral vascular disease Jan. 29 at Oak Crest Village. The former Guilford resident was 84.
    James Gabriel Thompson, a retired savings and loan association president, died of cerebral vascular disease Jan. 29 at Oak Crest Village. The former Guilford resident was 84. Born in Baltimore and raised in Gwynn Oak, he was the son of Stephen Thompson,...

    Tags: Northwood, Odenton, Loyola University Maryland, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Banking

    3. Feb 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Clara Mae Boender, teacher

    Clara Mae Boender, a retired reading specialist and elementary school teacher who taught for 54 years, died of multisystem organ failure Jan. 12 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 86.
    Clara Mae Boender, a retired reading specialist and elementary school teacher who taught for 54 years, died of multisystem organ failure Jan. 12 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 86. Born Clara Mae Crouch in Baltimore...

    Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Ellicott City, Colleges and Universities, Loyola University Maryland, Anglicanism

    4. Jan 26, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  4. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad roundhouse restroom project ready for bids

    An architect’s plans for installing restrooms at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad roundhouse and shops in Martinsburg are about ready to be put out for bid.
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    An architect’s plans for installing restrooms at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad roundhouse and shops in Martinsburg are about ready to be put out for bid. The Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority on Saturday authorized architect Matthew Grove to...

    Tags: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Arts and Culture, Travel, Architecture, Transportation

    5. Jan 24, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. B&O had storied passenger service

    Joseph J. Snyder has more than a passing interest in railroading and especially the venerable Baltimore & Ohio, whose storied passenger service is the subject of his recently published book.
    Joseph J. Snyder has more than a passing interest in railroading and especially the venerable Baltimore & Ohio, whose storied passenger service is the subject of his recently published book. The B&O invented the passenger train. On Jan. 7, 1830, a...

    Tags: Amtrak, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Travel, Transportation

    6. Nov 27, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Laurel Speedway's wooden track hosted auto racing in the 1920s

    Long before there was a Patuxent Greens Golf Course or Stewart Towers high rise building, a mammoth oval race track occupied that area of land off Route 197, near Route 198. Horse racing at Laurel Park racetrack had been ongoing since 1911, but in 1924 an idea was pitched to the public to construct the Baltimore-Washington Speedway, a new wooden track for auto racing.
    Long before there was a Patuxent Greens Golf Course or Stewart Towers high rise building, a mammoth oval race track occupied that area of land off Route 197, near Route 198. Horse racing at Laurel Park racetrack had been ongoing since 1911, but in 1924 an...

    Tags: Laurel Park, Jimmy Gleason, Auto Racing, Indianapolis 500, Highway Transportation

    7. Sep 27, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. New biography of legendary railroader John Work Garrett

    The optimistic incorporators and builders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common carrier railroad, which was founded in Baltimore in 1827 and began building westward the next year, envisioned it would take 10 years and $10 million...

    Tags: New Year's Day, Abraham Lincoln, Book, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Railway Transportation

    8. Oct 21, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  8. Lloyd Waters: Train whistles still blow in Brunswick

    A few weeks ago, my wife and I found ourselves driving down through the beautiful foliage of Harpers Ferry road as we headed to Brunswick days.  This is the same road that my Father in law Leon travelled for over thirty years when he worked on the...

    Tags: Berlin (Germany), Trips and Vacations, Travel, Lobbying, Transportation

    9. Oct 8, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. 7 surprising facts about Howard County

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    Did You Know? Howard County is known nationwide for its schools, parks, sports programs, libraries and affluence. But tucked away in faded, aging documents and longtime residents’ minds, there are plenty of little-known facts that might just...

    Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Sports, James Rouse

    10. Sep 1, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  10. Excerpts from 'September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril'

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    September 2 No American ever envisioned the U.S. Capitol building as a hospital. Wounded Union soldiers from the Battle of Second Manassas occupied the Rotunda and halls of the Senate and House. Seats formerly used by senators from the South — men...

    Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wars and Interventions

    11. Jul 26, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., head of nuclear medicine at Mercy

    Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., an internist and former head of the division of nuclear medicine at Mercy Medical Center who also was a practicing magician, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital.
    Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., an internist and former head of the division of nuclear medicine at Mercy Medical Center who also was a practicing magician, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital. The longtime Guilford resident was 80. "He...

    Tags: Hippodrome Theatre, Harry Houdini, General Practitioners, Saint Agnes Hospital, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)

    12. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Richard L. Lelonek Sr., Belair-Edison activist

    Richard Lelonek Sr., a retired railroad office worker and veteran Belair-Edison community activist, died July 21 at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of internal injuries related to an auto accident. He was 86 and lived in Northeast Baltimore.
    Richard Lelonek Sr., a retired railroad office worker and veteran Belair-Edison community activist, died July 21 at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of internal injuries related to an auto accident. He was 86 and lived in Northeast Baltimore. Born in...

    Tags: Local Government, White Marsh, Dundalk, Martin O'Malley, University of Baltimore

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