r/maryland

Havre de Grace had their 4th of July parade today and there was a float with people handing put Old Bay seasoning and merch. I'm going to give it to my brother who's the cook in the family.

This pilot project should start here in Maryland.

If we layout tracks following **I-97** down from Baltimore, sweeping onto **US-50 East**, crossing the **Chesapeake Bay Bridge**, and tracking Route 50 all the way down through Easton, Salisbury, and into Ocean City, the one-way distance stretches to about **125 miles**. For a round trip, that is a total of **250 miles**.

To make this realistic, we have to break the trip down into phases, assuming a top-tier train like a modified Shinkansen or Eurostar:
* **Acceleration / Deceleration:** The train needs time to ramp up to 219 mph leaving Baltimore, slow down for the Bay Bridge, ramp back up on the Eastern Shore, and slow down for the terminus.
* **The Bay Bridge Curve & Span:** High-speed trains must slow down significantly on tight curves and long over-water spans due to crosswinds and structural tracking limits. We will budget a restricted **90 mph** for a 6-mile stretch across the bridge and its approaches.
### The Round-Trip Timeline
A realistic, non-stop operational run looks like this:

1. Baltimore to the Bay Bridge Approach
   ~24 miles
   Leaving Penn Station, the train navigates the Baltimore tunnels and accelerates to its 219 mph cruising speed down the I-97/US-50 corridor.
   Time: 8.5 minutes
2. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Crossing
   ~6 miles
   The train decelerates smoothly to 90 mph to safely cross the suspension span, giving passengers a brief, sweeping view of the bay.
   Time: 4 minutes
3. The Eastern Shore Sprint
   ~95 miles
   Clearing Kent Island, the train punches back up to 219 mph, screaming parallel to Route 50 past Easton, over the Choptank River, through the Salisbury bypass, and straight to the coast.
   Time: 27.5 minutes
4. Ocean City Arrival & Turnaround
   Deceleration
   The train brakes firmly as it approaches the Harry W. Kelley Memorial Bridge structure, coming to a full stop at a hypothetical terminal just outside downtown Ocean City.
   Time: 2.5 minutes
   ### The Final Tally
   * **One-Way Time:** \approx **43 minutes**
   * **Total Round-Trip Travel Time:** \approx **1 ohour and 25 minutes**

** Even with the real-world routing and a major slowdown for the Bay Bridge, a round-trip commute that normally takes drivers 5 to 6 hours on a summer weekend shrinks to less than an hour and a half.

Just the classic HP with the 2N404A/2N3565 transistor pair, demo in comments

(sorry, no Albini)

07/05/26: @Backyard Fountain.

This is pretty wild. I don't remember them ever telling me power won't be back on for two days. I think I liked it better when they would lie and say it would be back on in an hour.

NYT Cooking Salted Caramel ice cream recipe with Old Bay instead of salt. Now we just have to let it set for a few hours...

Was driving down 15 to Frederick and went right into this storm that hit like a freight train. Crazy wind gusts, followed by a largest hail I’ve ever seen here.