Description: Railroads of the Eastern Shore, Maryland, Transportation, Paperback The history of the Delmarva Peninsula is inextricably entwined with the story of its railroads. The earliest railroads were short, locally funded lines. The dream to connect Norfolk directly to Eastern Seaboard cities farther north was first realized by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad in the 1880s. The line ran north-south along the peninsula to Cape Charles City, Virginia, where freight cars were loaded onto barges for the trip across the Chesapeake Bay. This line was eventually absorbed by the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, and the ferry service was eclipsed when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was completed in 1964. For more than a century, though, railroads played a critical role in the development of the Eastern Shore. Regional historian Lorett Treese tells this story.
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MPN: 9781467147026
Book Title: Railroads of the Eastern Shore
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Loretta Treese
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Food, Lodging & Transportation / Rail Travel, Railroads / History, Railroads / Pictorial
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Travel, Transportation
Item Weight: 0.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
