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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. Called a "packet" for the mail packets carried on government mail contracts, the term in the 19th century came ...
1975. The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum and historic railway station exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) company originally opened the museum on July 4, 1953, with the name of the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum. It has been called one of the most significant collections ...
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 ...
Union Station is a historic railway station located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States.It was constructed in 1913–14, near the junction where the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad intersected with the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad (later, the Baltimore & Eastern Railroad) in the center of Salisbury.