Anne Arundel County v. Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad

As one might reasonably surmise from its corporate name, the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad Company (B & A) once ran a railroad between Baltimore and Annapolis. It has not done so, however, since 1969 — not regularly, not at all. For at least four years, Anne Arundel County (the county), wherein most of the track is located, has been vainly seeking an authoritative determination from someone that the line has been abandoned in order that some more constructive use might be made of the right-of-way.1 It has done, it thinks, all that it could do before the Interstate Commerce Commission…