Motorists who regularly transit Charles Street from Bellona Avenue in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County to Lake Avenue have been subjected to what seems like forever construction work on the busy route that links the county with the city.

For years, a sliver of railroad track bisected the street between a gas station and a convenience store, until it was paved over a few years ago and removed the tracks from view.

Those tracks were long venerated by fans of the old Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad — the “Ma & Pa” — a 77.2 mile single track line with passing sidings that wandered across the Maryland countryside to its final terminal in York, Pennsylvania.

Basically an agrarian operation, the Ma & Pa did host several passenger trains a day that called at Towson, Bel Air, Street, D

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