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Light RailLink (formerly Baltimore Light Rail, and also known simply as the "Light Rail") is a light rail system serving Baltimore, Maryland, United States, as well as its surrounding suburbs. [1]

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ABB Group

ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas.

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Adtranz

ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation (after 1999 DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems), commonly known under its brand ADtranz, was a multi-national rail transport equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US.

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Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Anne Arundel County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad

The Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad was an American railroad of central Maryland built in the 19th century.

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Baltimore Arena (University Center) station

Baltimore Arena (University Center) station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baltimore bus terminals

The city of Baltimore, Maryland has had a succession of several terminals for interstate bus travel.

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Baltimore Convention Center

The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baltimore County, Maryland

Baltimore County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore Metro SubwayLink

The Metro SubwayLink, known locally as the Metro Subway, The Subway, or the Baltimore Metro, is a rapid transit line serving the greater area of Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, and operated by the Maryland Transit Administration.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Baltimore–Washington International Airport

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is an international airport located in Linthicum, an unincorporated community in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.

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Boom barrier

A boom barrier, also known as a boom gate, is a bar, or pole pivoted to allow the boom to block vehicular access through a controlled point.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Business park

A business park or office park is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together.

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Camden Station

Camden Station, now also referred to as Camden Street Station, Camden Yards, and formally as the Transportation Center at Camden Yards, is a train station at the intersection of South Howard and West Camden Streets in Baltimore, Maryland, served by MARC commuter rail service and local Light Rail trains.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Criminal citation

A criminal citation is used by police in some jurisdictions in order to charge a person with a crime without the need of making a physical arrest.

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Cromwell station

Cromwell station, also known as Cromwell Station/Glen Burnie or Cromwell/Glen Burnie, is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

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Falls Road station

Falls Road station is a Baltimore Light Rail station near Baltimore, Maryland.

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Federal Hill, Baltimore

Federal Hill is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States that lies just to the south of the city's central business district.

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Glen Burnie, Maryland

Glen Burnie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.

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Green Line (MBTA)

The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area.

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Hamburg Street station

Hamburg Street station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Baltimore, Maryland, located adjacent to M&T Bank Stadium.

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Headway

Headway is a measurement of the distance or time between vehicles in a transit system.

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Horseshoe Casino Baltimore

Horseshoe Baltimore is an urban two-story casino, and the second largest casino in Maryland with a 122,000-square-foot gaming floor.

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Hunt Valley, Maryland

Hunt Valley is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

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Infill station

An infill station (sometimes in-fill station) is a train station built on an existing passenger rail, rapid transit, or light rail line to address demand in a location between existing stations.

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Interstate 170 (Maryland)

Interstate 170 (abbreviated I-170) was the designation for a freeway in Baltimore, Maryland, that currently carries US 40.

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Interstate 395 (Maryland)

Interstate 395 (I-395) is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Interstate 83

Interstate 83 (abbreviated I-83) is an Interstate Highway in the Eastern United States.

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Interstate 95 in Maryland

Interstate 95 (I-95) in Maryland is a major highway that runs diagonally from northeast to southwest, from Maryland's border with Delaware, to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, briefly entering the District of Columbia before reaching Virginia.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Kevin Plank

Kevin A. Plank (born August 13, 1972) is an American entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist.

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Larry Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. (born May 25, 1956) is an American politician who currently serves as the 62nd Governor of Maryland, in office since January 2015.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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Light rail in the United States

Light rail is defined in the United States (and elsewhere) as a mode of electrified (or in a few exceptional cases, diesel-powered) rail-based transit, usually urban in nature, which is distinguished by operation in routes of generally exclusive, though not necessarily grade-separated, rights-of-way.

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Linthicum station

Linthicum station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

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List of Baltimore Light Rail stations

The Baltimore Light Rail network consists of a main north-south line that serves 28 of the system's 33 stops; a spur in Baltimore city that connects a single stop (Penn Station) to the main line; and two branches at the south end of the line that serve two stops apiece.

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List of rail transit systems in the United States

This is a list of the 108 operating passenger rail transit systems in the United States.

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List of tram and light rail transit systems

The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems.

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List of United States light rail systems by ridership

The following is a list of all light rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. Also included are those urban streetcar/trolley systems that are providing regular public transit service (i.e. operating year-round and at least five days/week).

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M&T Bank Stadium

M&T Bank Stadium is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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MARC Train

MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) Train Service, known prior to 1984 as Maryland Rail Commuter, is a commuter rail system comprising three lines in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Maryland Transit Administration

The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation.

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Maryland Transit Administration Police

The Maryland Transit Administration Police (MTA Police) is the law enforcement branch of the Maryland Transit Administration directed to patrol public transportation and related facilities in and around Baltimore, Maryland.

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Mt. Royal (University of Baltimore/MICA) station

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Muni Metro

The Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

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North Avenue station (Light RailLink)

North Avenue station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Northern Central Railway

| The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad connecting Baltimore, Maryland with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River.

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Opening Day

Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season.

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Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Oriole Park at Camden Yards, often referred to simply as Camden Yards or Oriole Park, is a Major League Baseball (MLB) ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Pantograph (transport)

A pantograph (or "pan") is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train, tram or electric bus to collect power through contact with an overhead line.

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Patapsco River

The Patapsco River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Patapsco station

Patapsco station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Halethorpe, Maryland.

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Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)

Baltimore Pennsylvania Station (generally referred to as Penn Station) is the main transportation hub in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Port Covington

Port Covington was a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, situated on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River.

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Proof-of-payment

Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems.

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Red Line (Baltimore)

The Red Line was a planned east-west mass transit light rail line for Baltimore, Maryland.

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Right-of-way (transportation)

A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.

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Royal Farms Arena

Royal Farms Arena (originally the Baltimore Civic Center and formerly Baltimore Arena) is an arena located in Baltimore.

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Ruxton-Riderwood, Maryland

Ruxton and Riderwood are unincorporated communities in Baltimore County, Maryland.

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South Baltimore, Baltimore

South Baltimore is a neighborhood in the Southern District of Baltimore, located to the west of the neighborhood of Riverside and south of Federal Hill.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Street running

On-street running or street running is the routing of a railroad track or tramway track running directly along public streets, without any grade separation.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.

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Timonium Business Park station

Timonium Business Park station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Timonium, Maryland.

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Timonium Fairgrounds station

Timonium Fairgrounds station is a Baltimore Light Rail station located adjacent to the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland.

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Timonium, Maryland

Timonium is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Under Armour

Under Armour, Inc. is an American company that manufactures footwear, sports, and casual apparel.

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Village of Cross Keys

Village of Cross Keys is a privately owned upscale area of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.

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Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway

The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway (WB&A) was an American railroad of central Maryland and Washington, D.C., built in the 19th and 20th century.

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Westport station (Light RailLink)

Westport station is a Baltimore Light Rail station in Baltimore, Maryland.

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William Donald Schaefer

William Donald Schaefer (November 2, 1921April 18, 2011) was an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. A Democrat, he was the 44th mayor of Baltimore from December 1971 to January 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from January 21, 1987 to January 18, 1995, and the 32nd Comptroller of Maryland from January 20, 1999 to January 17, 2007. On September 12, 2006, Schaefer was defeated in his reelection bid for a third term as Comptroller by Maryland Delegate Peter Franchot in the Democratic Party primary.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_RailLink

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