(rshsdepot) Cockeysville, Md. ex-PRR

["Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <lner4472_@_verizon.net>]

Full story, with photo, at:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_county/bal-md.co.station31may31,0,5496220.story


The Cockeysville Freight Station still stands near the tracks that once 
carried goods from the surrounding quarries, mills and farms. The 
wood-frame building, a weather-beaten shadow of its once bustling self, 
needs repairs and possibly a new tenant to revive it.

The long-unused tracks are overgrown with grass and weeds. All the 
traffic today moves along York Road, separated from the nearly 1-acre 
property on Old Cockeysville Road by a row of stores and restaurants. 
The vacant building, which dates to 1892, suffers from decades of 
neglect, its gray paint flaking from the splintered wood siding. Only 
traces of red remain on its window frames and wide cargo doors. Several 
of the decorative corbel brackets at the roof line are pulling away from 
the building. No water or sewer lines run to the structure.

Still, Cockeysville residents insist that the declining building houses 
much local history and should be restored and preserved. Several dozen 
residents staged a demonstration at the depot this month. Many waved 
hand-painted posters that read "This Place Matters" to anyone passing by."

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