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The Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York Railroad was a paper railroad of the 1870s, vaguely projected to construct a new line between Baltimore and New York via Philadelphia. It did very little construction work, except for a few miles of grading from Relay House, on the Northern Central Railroad , through Towson, Maryland to the Gunpowder River .
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is the municipal police department of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Dating back to 1784, the BPD, consisting of 2,935 employees in 2020, is organized into nine districts covering 80.9 square miles (210 km 2 ) of land and 11.1 square miles (29 km 2 ) of waterways.
The Baltimore Police Department has proposed updating the boundaries of its nine districts in a way that promises a significant redistribution of law enforcement resources and seeks to mend ...
A branch split there towards the Delaware River, while the main line continued north along the Schuylkill, with a station downtown, and then passed through the Art Museum Tunnel to Park Junction with the Philadelphia and Reading Railway's main line; this tunnel, the last part of the line to be finished, opened on December 15, 1886.
From the Buffalo end, the Buffalo and Washington Railway opened its line to East Aurora, New York in 1868 [10] and South Wales in 1870. [11] In 1871 its name was changed to the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway, [12] and it was extended to Emporium, Pennsylvania in 1872, completing the line between Buffalo and Harrisburg. [13]
Map of the B&O-PW&B connection in south Baltimore, prior takeover by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The B&O's original connection to New York in Baltimore was through surface street transfers to the old Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B), with passenger / freight cars (also known then as rail carriages) pulled by horses along the east–west running East Pratt Street route ...
The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad (PB&W) was a railroad that operated in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia in the 20th century, and was a key component of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) system. Its 131-mile (211 km) main line ran between Philadelphia and Washington.