Octoraro Railway information

The Octoraro Railway was an American shortline railroad that operated in Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1994. This company was formed in 1976. It obtained a...

Octoraro may refer to: Octoraro Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania Octoraro Railway, a shortline railroad that operated in Pennsylvania...

A brick tunnel leading to Octoraro Creek was built by Charles Spotts and used by slaves travelling the Underground Railway through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...

It operated a 110-mile (180 km) main line between West Philadelphia and Octoraro Junction, Maryland (near Port Deposit), plus several branch lines. The...

Railroad (ESPN) Maryland and Delaware Railroad (MDDE) Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) Wilmington and Western Railroad (WWRC) Lehigh Eastern RailRoad (LHEN)...

Bustleton area of Philadelphia. The Octoraro line, which is owned and operated by ESPN, consists of trackage, the former Octoraro Branch, from end-of-track in...

Pennsylvania. The Octoraro Railway ceased operations in 1994 and was replaced by the Delaware Valley Railway. The Delaware Valley Railway, a RailAmerica...

Delaware River Railway (BDRV) Brandywine Valley Railroad (BVRY) Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) (Genesee & Wyoming) Canadian National Railway (CN) through...

Delaware Valley Railway took over operations of these lines from the Octoraro Railroad on July 1, 1994. In 1999, the Delaware Valley Railway ceased operations...

1971 and 1972, there were washouts on the nearby Chester Creek Branch and Octoraro Branch, due to heavy storms and Hurricane Agnes. Subsequently, the Penn...

embark on its second foray into Pennsylvania, operating the SEPTA-owned Octoraro Railroad from July 1, 2003, to November 18, 2004. The line is currently...

Junction Station, being the northern terminus of the P&BC, later called the Octoraro Branch. This line was built by the P&BC between 1855 and 1868, and originally...

rival, the New York Central Railroad. The Chester Creek Branch and the Octoraro Branch were damaged by a flash flood in September 1971, then hit again...

Ashmead. p. 344. Sellers, pp. 27-28. The railroad was later known as the Octoraro Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sellers, pp. 32-33. Place, Memory...

were affiliated with railway companies such as the Ann Arbor Railroad, the Grand Trunk Railway, and the Pere Marquette Railway (absorbed in 1947 into...

railroad operated over a leased portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Octoraro Branch. W&C utilized two steam locomotives for operations: former U.S....

2007. Retrieved October 30, 2006. Official Guide of the Railways. New York: National Railway Publication Co., February, 1956. Petersen, Nancy (January...

Cemetery Hill,[when?] and Union artillery on Cemetery Hill fired on the railway cut (including Wiedrich's battery ~5 pm). Smaller engagements in the town...

Camp Springs MD 4 in Meadows 01927-01-011927 current MD 338 1.24 2.00 Octoraro Creek US 1 / US 222 at Conowingo 01927-01-011927 01979-01-011979 MD 339...

French Creek Lehigh River LeTort Spring Run Lick Run Lower Brandywine Octoraro Creek Pine Creek Schuylkill River Stony Creek Tucquan Creek Tulpehocken...

noteworthy pieces are the popular Union Pacific Big Boy #4012, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP Rail) #2929 (a rare Jubilee 4-4-4), Nickel Plate Road (NKP) S-2 #759...