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Delaware/Maryland state line: Cambridge: ca. 1869 Eastern Shore Railroad: Delaware/Maryland state line: Salisbury: 1860 Salisbury: Crisfield: 1866 Junction and Breakwater Railroad: Harrington: Lewes: ca. 1869 Lewes: Rehoboth Beach: 1878 Kent County Rail Road: Delaware/Maryland state line: Massey: Abandoned 1902 upon acquisition by PRR 1873 ...
Catonsville Short Line Railroad: PRR: 1882 1945 Caton and Loudon Railway: Central Railroad of Maryland: PRR: 1913 1914 York, Hanover and Frederick Railway Company: Chaffee Railroad: WM: 1918 1950 Western Maryland Railway: Chambersburg, Greencastle and Hagerstown Railroad: PRR: 1853 1859 Franklin Railroad: Chesapeake Railroad: CHRR 1995 2000 N/A ...
The system is owned by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA Maryland), and serves Maryland, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The system covers a total route length of 198.2 miles (319.0 km) along three rail lines. [1] In the 2019 fiscal year, MARC Train service had average weekday ridership of 36,375 passengers. [2]
In 1998, there was a state bill that would have required that the right-of-way be proposed for a light rail line to the then-proposed Branch Avenue Metro station, but the bill didn't pass and the effort never got started. [73] [77] In 2006 the state and county began to build a rail trail, the Three Notch Trail, on the right-of-way.
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]
The trail along Fishing Creek (near Chesapeake Beach terminus) is a boardwalk, resting on piles 2 metres above the water. The Chesapeake Beach Rail Trail (sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Beach Railway Trail) is a set of short trails along the original Chesapeake Beach Railway route from Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach, Maryland.
The Metropolitan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.The 53-mile line runs from Washington, D.C., northwest to Weverton, Maryland, along the former Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Queen Anne's Railroad was a railroad that ran between Love Point, Maryland, and Lewes, Delaware during the late 19th and early 20th Century. It connected to Baltimore via ferry across the Chesapeake Bay, to Cape May, New Jersey via a ferry across the Delaware Bay and to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware via another railroad.