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Old 02-25-2022, 06:16 PM
 
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Even though in the past, there was a rail link between Baltimore and York, nowadays, due to politics, it's not going to happen. It makes a lot of sense to link the two cities, but it's just not going to happen, IMO. I can only hope the Corridor One rail project or something similar happens just to link the South Central cities together.
The direct railroad was kind of toonerville even when trains were more of a thing, and of course totally abandoned now in northern Baltimore County (a popular rail trail connecting to York's, which does have the tourist train/minimal freight parallel still on the PA side). The fairly short time there was a Harrisburg-Washington Amtrak train went via the line along the Susquehanna not via York. The old Ma&Pa route was even crazier and abandoned early on the MD side.
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Old 11-08-2022, 01:49 AM
 
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The direct railroad was kind of toonerville even when trains were more of a thing, and of course totally abandoned now in northern Baltimore County (a popular rail trail connecting to York's, which does have the tourist train/minimal freight parallel still on the PA side). The fairly short time there was a Harrisburg-Washington Amtrak train went via the line along the Susquehanna not via York. The old Ma&Pa route was even crazier and abandoned early on the MD side.
When trains were the main mode of long-distance travel back in the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, it made sense to have a rail link between Baltimore and York, but with the advent of the automobile, that made many rail routes obsolete as the interstate system replaced a lot of ROWs, and as a result, you se what you get.

Nowadays a rail link from Baltimore to York and Harrisburg will never happen just due to politics and culture. I-83 serves York and Baltimore well and Central PA can use a commuter rail system radiating out from Harrisburg to Lebanon, Reading, Lancaster, York, and Carlisle and would be successful if properly maintained and managed, but the PA gov't has always dragged it's feet regarding public transit in PA and now with the advent of the Brightline in FL, I'm hoping privatization can at least give PA residents some rail transit since relying on the gov't to subsidize rail transit is an utter waste of time.
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