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==Transportation== ===Roads=== *[[Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway]] (I-83) *[[Beaver Dam Road]] *[[Cranbrook Road]] *[[McCormick Road (Hunt Valley)|McCormick Road]] *[[Padonia Road]] *[[Maryland Route 145|Paper Mill Road/Ashland Road]] (MD-145) *[[Shawan Road]] *[[Maryland Route 943|Warren Road]] (MD-943) *[[Maryland Route 45|York Road]] (MD-45) ===Public transportation=== The [[Maryland Transit Administration]]'s [[Baltimore Light RailLink|Light RailLink]] line runs through Cockeysville. The [[Warren Road (Baltimore Light Rail station)|Warren Road stop]] is the stop in the area. [[Route 93 (MTA Maryland LocalLink)|Bus Route 93]] operates along York and some other roads in the area. ===Northern Central Railway=== [[File:NCRY Cockeysville FrtSta 2010a.jpg|thumb|right|The former Cockeysville freight station in 2011]] The area used to be served by the [[Northern Central Railway]], a wholly owned subsidiary of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)]]. Located on the PRR's Baltimore-Harrisburg mainline, Cockeysville saw the passage of many named interstate passenger trains as late as the 1960s, such as the ''Liberty Limited'' and the [[General (train)|''General'']] to Chicago. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] traveled through Cockeysville on the Northern Central Railway en route to [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], to deliver the [[Gettysburg Address]] in 1863. Less than two years later, on April 21, 1865, Lincoln's funeral train also passed through Cockeysville on its way from [[Washington, D.C.]], to his final resting place at [[Springfield, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Daniel Carroll Toomey |title=Baltimore During the Civil War |publisher=Toomey Press |year=1997 |isbn=0-9612670-7-0 |page=170 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln51.html|title=Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train|website=rogerjnorton.com}}</ref> South of Cockeysville, the Baltimore Light RailLink uses the [[Right-of-way (transportation)|corridor]] established by the predecessors of the Northern Central; the corridor north is now the [[Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail]].
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