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"The New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk line"--Back cover.
Author : Loretta Treese
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467147028
"The New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk line"--Back cover.
Author : Chris Dickon
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531625740
In the 1880s, New York railroad magnate Alexander Cassatt looked at a map of America's East Coast and decided that he could overcome a challenge of geography if he thought of a new railroad in a non-traditional way. North and South were now trading with each other postwar, and the two most prominent coastal cities of those regions, New York and Norfolk, were less than 500 miles apart--except for one very large problem: at the end of a straight route down the Eastern Shore of Virginia lay the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, with more than 20 miles of open water to the rail yards of Norfolk. Thus Cassatt created the New York, Philadelphia, & Norfolk Railroad, which ran overland from Philadelphia to Cape Charles, Virginia; at Cape Charles, the railroad became waterborne on barges and passenger ferries that traveled the rough waters at the mouth of the bay. Now known as the Eastern Shore Railroad, since 1884, the operation has followed a path through history that has been no less dramatic than the rise and fall--and curves in the rightof-way--of American railroading during that time.
Author : Maryland. Commissioners of the Eastern Shore Rail Road
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on the Eastern Shore Railroad Co
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Eastern Shore Rail Road Company
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Railroad companies
ISBN :
Author : Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Committee on the Eastern Shore Railroad Co
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Easteern shore railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Maryland
ISBN :
Author : Eastern Shore Rail Road Company
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1840
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Eastern Shore Rail Road Company
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : William W. Handy
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Railroads
ISBN :