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The Del-Mar-Va trip, including ferry travel was 11 hours from New York; and the longer all-land route through Washington was 13 hours and 40 minutes. [ 1 ] The train succeeded an earlier short lived train, the Old Point, in the 1890s from Philadelphia to Cape Charles.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: PRR: 1890 1891 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad: Bay Coast Railroad: BCR 2006 2018 Delmarva Central Railroad: Beaver Dam Railroad: 1910 Big Sandy Railway: C&O: 1902 1906 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky: Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad: BS&C N&W: 1900 1932 ...
The Bay Coast Railroad (reporting mark BCR) was a Class III short-line railroad that ran trains on the 96-mile (154 km) former New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad line on the Delmarva Peninsula between Pocomoke City, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia, interchanging with the Norfolk Southern Railway (NSR) at both ends.
In 1839, the railroad's ticket agents advertised daily mail-and-passenger trains that left Baltimore's old original Pratt Street station at South Charles Street of the B&O (before 1857-65 construction of the now-famous Camden Street Station) at 9:30 a.m., stopped for lunch in Wilmington, Delaware, and reached the Market Street depot in ...
Wellington Street Railway Wellington: Horse May 1886 [80] December 1890 [81] Wichita Street Railway Wichita: Horse 1887 1890 Wichita Railroad & Light Co. Electric 1890 1933 Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway: Wichita ― Newton ― Hutchinson: Electric Interurban December 22, 1915 July 31, 1938 Union Street Railway Winfield: Horse August 31 ...
The Eastern Shore Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark ESHR) was a Class III short-line railroad that ran trains on the 96-mile (154 km) former New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad line on the Delmarva Peninsula between Pocomoke City, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia, interchanging with the Norfolk Southern Railway at both ends.
At the same time, the north-south leg of the Philadelphia City Railroad opened, running south along Broad Street from the Philadelphia and Columbia. The Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railroad opened in 1834, connecting the Philadelphia and Columbia to the Delaware River north of downtown, and later that year the Southwark Rail-Road ...
1850s: Renamed the Pennsylvania Central Railway. 1850: Construction begins on Altoona Works repair shop at Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1857: The Main Line of Public Works of Pennsylvania purchased. 1865: First US railroad to use steel rails. [12] 1868: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway is formed and controlled by the Pennsy.