Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The NPBL interchanges with; Chesapeake and Albemarle Railroad, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern.The NPBL is a terminal switching company that owns 36 miles (58 km) of track, (plus 27 miles (43 km) of trackage rights) and links commerce around the deepwater port from Sewells Point to Portsmouth Marine Terminal, including the Southern Branch Elizabeth River. [4]
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 ]
Norfolk Southern Railway: Catawba Valley Railway and Mining Company: N&W: 1902 1909 Norfolk and Western Railway: Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1887 1893 Ohio River and Charleston Railroad: Charlottesville and Rapidan Railroad: SOU: 1876 1914 Southern Railway: Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad: C&O: 1868 1878 Chesapeake and ...
The Chesapeake Transit Company opened an electric traction line from Norfolk to Virginia Beach by way of Cape Henry in 1902, and the N&S extended its steam line north to Cape Henry to meet the competition. The Norfolk & Southern electrified its beach line in 1904 and purchased the transit company, giving the road two parallel lines up the beach.
The Norfolk & Western purchased the Chesapeake Western in 1954, ending its status as an independent railroad. [3] The Chesapeake Western survived as a separate entity from Norfolk & Western for a several years until the merger of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Southern Railway in the 1980s, becoming part of Norfolk Southern. [4]
York, Hanover and Frederick Railway Company: Chaffee Railroad: WM: 1918 1950 Western Maryland Railway: Chambersburg, Greencastle and Hagerstown Railroad: PRR: 1853 1859 Franklin Railroad: Chesapeake Railroad: CHRR 1995 2000 N/A Chesapeake Beach Railway: 1896 1935 East Washington Railway: Chesapeake and Curtis Bay Railroad: WM: 1916 1989 CSX ...
Chesapeake: Amtrak: Washington, DC - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1993] 1973-1983; 1991-1995 Chesapeake and Ohio Express: Pennsylvania: New York, New York - Cincinnati, Ohio - Louisville, Kentucky [1895] 1895-1917; 1923-1935 Chesapeake and Ohio Limited: Pennsylvania, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: New York, New York - Memphis, Tennessee [1906 ...
The Walkersville Southern Railroad (reporting mark WS) [1] is a 6.72 mile (11 km) heritage railway in Walkersville, Maryland. [ 2 ] running from MP 60.0 south of Woodsboro, MD to MP 66.72 just north of the intersection of Route 26 and U.S. Route 15 near Frederick, Maryland (Using PRR Milepost data where mileage ran north to south, and Frederick ...