It begins at the west end of Edmondson Avenue and extends from Catonsville through Oella to Main Street, Ellicott City.
The company became insolvent competing with the Catonsville Short Line Railroad (1884), and was purchased as part of the City and Suburban Railway Corporation.
[1] In 1895, the follow-on Baltimore and Catonsville Railway Company decided to extend its lines four miles to Ellicott City and convert to 33 foot long cars using electricity.
[5] Gaither's Electric express provided freight operations for a two-mile section running through Ellicott City.
Today, the path is paved and features a section of boardwalk next to walls of rock that were hand-cut by the original builders.