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The Atlantic City Railroad was a Philadelphia and Reading Railway subsidiary that became part of Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. At the end of 1925, it operated 161 miles (259 km) of road on 318 miles (512 km) of track; that year it reported 43 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 204 million passenger-miles.
The idea of a railway connecting Britain's North American colonies arose as soon as the railway age began in the 1830s. In the decades following the War of 1812 and ever-mindful of the issue of security, the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (later the Province of Canada after 1840) wished to improve land-based transportation with the Atlantic coast colonies of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ...
Share of the Atlantic City & Shore Railroad Company, issued 6 April 1910 The Shore Fast Line was an electric interurban railroad running from Atlantic City, New Jersey , to Ocean City, New Jersey , by way of the mainland communities of Pleasantville , Northfield , Linwood and Somers Point .
The Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad of 1834, in Philadelphia History, Vol. 2, No. 7 (Philadelphia, PA: City History Soc. of Philadelphia, 1925). This is a pamphlet written for The City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of March 15, 1921.
The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in 1827, and the "Laying of the First Stone" ceremonies and the beginning of its long construction heading westward over the obstacles of the Appalachian Mountains eastern chain
During this period, close to 1.3 million colonists left Europe for the New World. Most of the 350,000 English immigrants who crossed the Atlantic, during the 17th century, went to the West Indies (180,000) and to the Chesapeake Colonies, in the southern United States (120,000).
The RDG controlled the Atlantic City Railroad with their depot at Atlantic and North Arkansas Avenues. [2] By the 1930s however the drop in freight revenue, and the seasonal nature of a beach resort, led the two lines to merge their operations in southern New Jersey and form the PRSL in 1933.
During Gage's administration, political tensions rose throughout the American colonies. As a result, Gage began withdrawing troops from the frontier to fortify urban centres like New York City and Boston. [51] As the number of soldiers stationed in cities grew, the need to provide adequate food and housing for these troops became urgent.