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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 ...
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 ...
In 1927 the Baltimore, Chesapeake, & Atlantic Railway filed for bankruptcy and was sold at foreclosure on March 28, 1928. One parcel was for the company's railroad and the Claiborne ferry, and was sold for $650,000. At that point passenger rail service from Claiborne to points further east was discontinued, and the Claiborne-McDaniel section of ...
Baltimore and Delta Railway: 1878 1882 Maryland Central Railroad: Baltimore and Eastern Railroad: BE PRR: 1923 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Baltimore and Eastern Railroad: PRR: 1886 1894 Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway: Baltimore, Hampden and Towsontown Railway: 1874 1878 Baltimore and Delta Railway: Baltimore and Hanover ...
Factor of adh. 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 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) where it pulled coal ...
In 1949, the superstructure was stripped off and her furnishings purchased by the VFW for their new post home. The vessel was brought to a Baltimore scrap yard. Photo link: At dock in Claiborne alongside the Cambridge owned by the competing Baltimore, Chesapeake, and Atlantic railway) As a restaurant in Pocomoke. General Lincoln: Built in 1878 ...
Maryland and Delaware Railroad. The Maryland and Delaware Railroad Company (reporting mark MDDE) is a Class III short-line railroad, formed in 1977 to operate several branch lines of the former Penn Central Railroad in both Maryland and Delaware, United States. These branches were omitted from the system plan for Conrail in 1976 and would have ...
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 ...