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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 ]
The Chesapeake was discontinued on October 30, 1983 and replaced by an unnamed Washington–Baltimore train. [5] Commuter rail service is now provided over the former route of the Chesapeake – excepting the segment between Perryville and Newark – by the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line and MARC Penn Line.
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 ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway merged into CSX Transportation August 31, 1987. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad merged into the CSX Transportation August 31, 1987. The Western Maryland Railway merged with others to form CSX July 1, 1986. The Pere Marquette Railway merged into the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway June 6, 1947.
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 ...
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 ...
The Reading Company determined that its Philadelphia–Newark service was outside Amtrak's scope. [3] It was later operated by Conrail and NJ Transit, who discontinued it in 1982. [9] The Southern Railway did not join until February 1, 1979, at which point it conveyed its Southern Crescent to Amtrak. [10]