In doing some research for MDP pictures, or rather when brainstorming for subjects of MDP pictures, I’ll often look for historical markers in the vicinity of where I’ll be visiting. I’ll share a secret with you. One of my favorite places on the internet is actually a site that accumulates these markers. The historic marker database, whose website www.hmdb.org will take over your life if you let it.
On the site I discovered a marker next to the light rail lines in Timonium that claims there is a granite track bed from the railroad that originally ran in that spot, the right of way for which is now being used as the light rail line. This is a remnant of a time when railroading was so new that nobody realized it was better to put tracks on cheap wooden ties lodged in rocks, than it was to put them on a solid block of granite. However, today’s picture has nothing to do with that. This is because MDP went to the Timonium Business Park light rail stop, and not the Timonium light rail stop, where the granite is.
So today’s picture is a mirror and a pretty cool shot from the historically insignificant Timonium Business Park light rail stop.
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1 bryanintowson // Mar 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM
1. The Timonium Business Park stop is one of the only light rail stations outside of the city that has no dedicated parking of its own.
2. FIX THE TAB FUNCTION
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