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The railroad was started as part of Norfolk Southern's Thoroughbred Shortline Program, where low density lines were handed over to shortline operators. The current railroad began operations in 1990, was acquired by RailAmerica in 2000, [ 1 ] and subsequently acquired by the Genesee & Wyoming in 2012. [ 2 ]
The company's founders hoped that a rail line from the major north-south Potomac River crossings into Virginia near Washington, D.C., to a port on the Patuxent River near the Chesapeake Bay would spur agricultural and mineral businesses on the peninsula. [2] The company quickly set its sights on running into Washington, D.C. [3]
By the mid-1940s, the Chesapeake Western operated a total of 53.5 miles in the Shenandoah Valley and interchanges with the C&O, N&W, and Southern Railways. [1] On January 1, 1943 the railway purchased some of the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's tracks from Harrisonburg, Virginia to Lexington, Virginia but abandoned the route from Staunton ...
The Chesapeake Beach Railway (CBR), now defunct, was an American railroad of southern Maryland and Washington, D.C., built in the 19th century.The CBR ran 27.629 miles from Washington, D.C., on tracks laid by the Southern Maryland Railroad and its own single track through Maryland farm country to a resort at Chesapeake Beach. [1]
Frederick and Northern Railroad Company: PRR: 1896 1897 Hanover and York Railroad Company: Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company (F&PL) PRR: 1867 1896 Frederick and Northern Railroad Company: George's Creek and Cumberland Railroad: WM: 1876 1917 Western Maryland Railway: Green Ridge Railroad: 1883 1891 N/A Operated as a private ...
The train shed that used to serve as the end of the line in Claiborne, MD was dismantled, moved to St. Michaels. MD and repurposed as part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. [24] A bridge over Broad Creek west of St. Michaels remains. A section of the trail in St. Michaels has been turned into the St. Michael's Nature Trail.
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These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...