Chaney Enterprises, a construction supplier in Gambrills, recently completed a new railway and is operating its first train. The company now offers limestone transported by a new railway at its 520-acre facility on Acton Lane in Waldorf. The company expects that ...

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The B&O Railroad Museum is offering weekly events during its month long B&O’s Magical Express running from December 3rd to the 31st and January 2nd. This week the Baltimore Area N-Trak, an N-scale model railroading club, has set up at ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — An Upper Marlboro man has pleaded guilty in an elaborate scheme to steal $222,000 worth of railroad track. The Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release that 50-year-old Randy Penkert pleaded guilty on Tuesday ...

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Rep. Elijah Cummings is pushing for Amtrak officials to make progress on the long awaited redevelopment of Baltimore’s Penn Station. The Baltimore Sun reports that Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman said Friday that nine firms are interested in the project, but ...

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Several west Baltimore residents are opposing a plan that would re-route a train tunnel beneath their homes, businesses and neighborhood centers. The Baltimore Sun reports over 60 residents attended Saturday’s public hearing, urging Amtrak and state, federal, and local transportation ...

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(AP) The CEO of Canadian Pacific says U.S. regulators would approve a well-structured railroad merger, but nothing is planned now that talks with CSX ended. CEO Hunter Harrison said during a conference call Tuesday he doesn’t agree with the view ...

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(AP) The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad is playing a part in an upcoming Hollywood film. Railroad officials said Thursday that Meg Ryan, directing her first movie, shot the railroad’s steam locomotive at various points along its route between Cumberland and ...

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Federal and state officials and Amtrak are studying ways to improve a 141-year-old tunnel that carries passenger trains through Baltimore.

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Stop signs at a rail crossing where a train and trash truck crashed in a Baltimore suburb were faded and one was hung upside down and facing away from the road, according to a preliminary report on last month’s derailment ...

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — An ex-railroad worker from Maryland who ran a West Virginia scrap yard while collecting disability checks will spend 18 months in prison for tax evasion. Fifty-year-old Kenneth Harold Hogan of Oldtown, Md., was sentenced in U.S. District ...

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