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Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula

Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula

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    Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula
    Rails Along the Chesapeake A history of railroading on the Delmarva Peninsula 1827-1978 by John Hayman
    Hard cover
    Copyright 1979
    233 pages
    Indexed
    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    PAGE
    PREFACE  iii
    CHAPTER I
    Early Railroading on the Eastern Shore  1
    CHAPTER II
    The Eastern Shore's Pioneer Railroad  5
    CHAPTER III
    The Great "Humbug" Railroad  15
    CHAPTER IV
    The Delaware Railroad, Backbone of Delmarva's Rail System  19
    CHAPTER V
    A Single Line to Join the Three States  33
    CHAPTER VI
    The Tree Branches Out  41
    CHAPTER VII
    Rails to the Wide Choptank  47
    CHAPTER VIII
    Queen Anne's County Must Have a Railroad  51
    CHAPTER IX
    Delusions of Grandeur  55
    CHAPTER X
    Coal Trains to the Delaware River  61
    CHAPTER XI
    The Old Dream is Realized: A New North-South Rail Route  65
    CHAPTER XII
    The First Trans-Peninsula Railroad  87
    CHAPTER XIII
    Black Cinders and Ashes  95
    CHAPTER XIV
    Many Dirty Visits  117
    CHAPTER XV
    Dreams That Never Came True 129
    CHAPTER XVI
    Delmarva Railroading in the Twentieth Century  133
    CHAPTER XVII
    The Last Independents  159
    APPENDIX A
    Electric Railways on Delmarva  175
    APPENDIX B
    Locomotives of the New Castle and Frenchtown Rail Road  178
    APPENDIX C
    APPENDIX D
    Locomotives of the Junction and Breakwater Railroad  180
    APPENDIX E
    Locomotives of the Worcester Rail Road  181
    APPENDIX F
    Locomotives of the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad  182
    APPENDIX G
    Locomotives of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad  183
    APPENDIX H
    Locomotives of the Delaware and Chesapeake Railway  184
    APPENDIX I
    Locomotives of the Dorchester and Delaware Railroad  185
    APPENDIX J
    Locomotives of the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad  186
    APPENDIX K
    Locomotives of the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad  187
    APPENDIX L
    Locomotives of the Eastern Shore Railroad  188
    APPENDIX M
    Locomotives of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad  189
    APPENDIX N
    Locomotives of the Wicomico and Pocomoke Railroad  194
    APPENDIX O
    Locomotives of the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad  195
    APPENDIX P
    Locomotives of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway  196
    APPENDIX Q
    Locomotives of the Queen Anne's Railroad  199
    APPENDIX R
    Locomotives of the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway 200
    APPENDIX S
    Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotives on Delmarva 201
    APPENDIX T
    Locomotives of the Ocean City Western Railroad  206
    APPENDIX U
    Locomotives of the Virginia and Maryland and Maryland and Delaware Railroads (Leased from the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Company) 207
    APPENDIX V
    Commissioners, Officers, and Directors of Various Companies 209
    BIBLIOGRAPHY 217
    INDEX 221
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