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The Chesapeake Beach Railway (CBR), now defunct, was an American railroad of southern Maryland and Washington, D.C., built in the 19th century.The CBR ran 27.629 miles from Washington, D.C., on tracks laid by the Southern Maryland Railroad and its own single track through Maryland farm country to a resort at Chesapeake Beach. [1]
Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Minnesota Transfer Railway: MTFR CB&Q/ CGW/ CNW/ CP/ GN/ MILW/ MSTL/ NP/ RI: 1883 1987 Minnesota Commercial Railway: Minnesota Valley Railroad: CNW: 1864 1870 St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad: Minnesota Valley Railway: CNW: 1876 1881 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Minnesota Western Railroad: MSTL: 1924 1932 ...
The third floor consists of an HO scale model railroad layout depicting the B&O Railroad's Metropolitan line (the MET) from Washington, DC to Brunswick, Maryland in the late 1950s. [7] The model also includes the Brunswick classification yards , which were completed in 1907 and measured 5 miles (8.0 km) long, the largest and most modern in the ...
Swing Bridge Park in 2019. The bridge was built in 1895 for the South St. Paul Beltline Railroad by the Pittsburgh Bridge Company. Originally, it connected stockyards in nearby South St. Paul, Minnesota, to the mail rail lines of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, and Milwaukee Road that ran on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Washington County, Minnesota.
The W&OD Railroad station in Herndon houses the Herndon Depot Museum, which the Herndon Historical Society operates. [109] The museum, which is open on Sundays from noon to 3:00 p.m. from March to mid-December, displays photographs and newspaper articles relating to the history of the Town of Herndon and the W&OD Railroad. [109]
The railroad was incorporated on February 15, 1848 [2] and reauthorized in 1864 was to connect Salisbury and Berlin, Maryland; 23 miles apart. [9] At the time the railroad was chartered, there were no other railroads to connect with but instead the investors intended a connection with the steamboats on the Wicomico river in Salisbury, Maryland. [9]
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park 33°32′15″N 111°55′24″W / 33.537500°N 111.923333°W / 33.537500; -111.923333 ( Arizona Merci Train Scottsdale
Initiated in 1970 by The Vintage Locomotive Society Inc., the first operations were in July, 1970. From 1970–1974, the train operated out of Charleswood on the now-abandoned Canadian National Cabot Subdivision. From 1975 to 1996 the train operated out of St. James, immediately west of Polo Park on a now abandoned Canadian National Railways line.