Route Description
The route began at what is now US 15 Business in Gettysburg. It travelled south out of the town on Baltimore Pike, running south on what is now Pennsylvania Route 97. US 140 passed through Littlestown before reaching the Maryland border, continuing on what is now Maryland Route 97, now Littleston Pike. It entered Westminster on Pennsylvania Avenue, and turned east on Old Westminster Pike, the original route of Maryland Route 140. The route then entered Reisterstown on Westminster Road and turned south on Main Street, which then becomes Reisterstown Road. The road passed through Owings Mills and entered Baltimore City, still carrying the Reisterstown Road moniker all the way south to North Avenue (US 1 / US 40 Truck) in the city. Here, the road's name changed to Pennsylvania Avenue, a diagonal street cutting a path all the way south to US 40 at the intersection of Greene and Franklin Streets.
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