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Alexandria and Washington Railroad: Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad: B&O: 1873 1874 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: SOU: 1873 1880 Virginia Midland Railway: Washington and Potomac Railroad: 1886 1900 Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railroad: Washington, Potomac and ...
The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway (WB&A) was an American railroad that operated from 1899 until 1935 in central Maryland and Washington, D.C.. It was built by a group of Cleveland, Ohio, electric railway entrepreneurs to serve as a high-speed showpiece line using the most advanced technology of the time. [1]
It was established in 1901 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad-controlled Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. [1] The Washington Terminal Company owned and operated Union Station (opened in 1907) and about 5 miles (8.0 km) of track in the Washington area, providing switching services for passenger ...
Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's second-busiest station and North America's 10th-busiest railroad station.
This category includes railroads that operate or have operated in Washington, D.C.. For a more complete list, see List of Washington, D.C., railroads . Subcategories
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railroad line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States. Owned primarily by Amtrak, it runs from Boston in the north to Washington, D.C., in the south, with major stops in Providence, New Haven, Stamford, New York City, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore.
But far more often, portions of the WREC system competed with Capital Traction on slightly different routes. For example, the main route of the Metropolitan Railroad roughly paralleled that of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad, which ran largely along Pennsylvania Avenue, one of the major diagonal streets in downtown Washington. But the ...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Washington, DC–Chicago, Illinois [1960] 1935–1936; 1960–1967 Washington-Cleveland Night Express: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Washington, DC–Cleveland, Ohio [1945] 1942–1946 Washington-Detroit Limited: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Detroit, Michigan–Baltimore, Maryland [1930] 1928–1930 Washington ...