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The Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic railroad, nicknamed Black Cinders & Ashes, [1] ran from Claiborne, Maryland (with steamship connections to Baltimore), to Ocean City, Maryland. It operated 87 miles (140.0 km) of center-line track and 15.6 miles (25.11 km) of sidings. [2] Chartered in 1886, the railroad started construction in 1889 and ...
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway: Baltimore, Hampden and Towsontown Railway: 1874 1878 Baltimore and Delta Railway: Baltimore and Hanover Railroad: WM: 1877 1886 Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway: Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway: WM: 1886 1917 Western Maryland Railway: Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad: 1891 1894 Baltimore and Lehigh ...
1975. The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. It has been called one of the most significant collections ...
1 Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway. Toggle Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway subsection. 1.1 Location and General Description of Property.
Historic railway station in Georgetown, Delaware, located South of the track formerly used by the Queen Anne's Railroad. The Queen Anne’s Railroad was a railroad that ran between Love Point, Maryland, and Lewes, Delaware, with connections to Baltimore via ferry across the Chesapeake Bay. The Queen Anne's Railroad company was formed in ...
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. Called a "packet" for the mail packets carried on government mail contracts, the term in the 19th century came ...
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 is a compound articulated class "H-6" "Mallet" type steam locomotive with a 2-6-6-2 (Whyte notation) wheel arrangement. It was the very last steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 5,155 miles (8,296 kilometres) [1] The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark ACL) was a United States Class I railroad formed in 1900, though predecessor railroads had used the ACL brand since 1871. In 1967, it merged with long-time rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard ...