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40-603: Construction of a rail line from Pocomoke City to Cape Charles was completed on October 25, 1884, and operated as the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad (NYP&N) . Its founder, Alexander Johnston Cassatt (12/08/1839 to 12/08/1906), designed a barge large enough to carry 18 railcars. His barges provided the new railroad with its connection across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk by April 1885. The railroad's co-founder, coal magnate William Lawrence Scott , financed construction of

80-514: A tugboat for the trip. The original passenger ferries, Cape Charles & Old Point Comfort , side-wheeler paddle steamers , could hold an entire train on their two tracks. In 1889 the New York the first propeller driven ship, 200 feet long, 31 feet beam was built for the run to Norfolk, and in 1890 the Pennsylvania , a larger vessel (260 feet long, 36 feet beam) was added. In 1907 the Maryland

120-731: A Class III rail carrier, hereby gives notice to employees of Cassatt Management, LLC d/b/a Bay Coast Railroad ("BCR") that as soon as May 29, 2018, DCR intends to lease and thereafter operate a line of railroad owned by Canonie Atlantic Co. ("CAC") on behalf of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission and currently leased to BCR extending from the connection with DCR' s line (leased from Norfolk Southern Railway Company) at approximately milepost 30.9 five hundred feet south of Second Street in Pocomoke City, Maryland to approximately milepost 45.7 at

160-629: A compressor. 2001 was missing a set of trucks. No. 2001, dormant for over a decade, was cut up for scrap on January 18, 2019. Note: In August 2018 leased locomotive LLPX 2014 was moved to the Cape May Seashore Lines in New Jersey . Note: Both MRS1 locomotives, out of service for many years, were scrapped on site in 2011. As of May 18, 2018, the Bay Coast Railroad ran their last train before ceasing operations. Leased locomotive LLPX 2014

200-735: A day ran along the train line. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the PRR operated the day train, the Del-Mar-Va Express , and the night train, the Cavalier. At peak levels in the mid-1940s, the company also operated southbound, the Furlough, and an additional night train, the Mariner, in addition to unnamed local trains. Northbound the PRR added the Sailor, the Mariner night train, and an unnamed local train. By 1957

240-467: A self-propelled dining car along BCR track, making one- to two-hour round trips from Cape Charles. This passenger excursion service used a restored interurban railcar built in 1913 by St. Louis Car Company . It originally served the former Texas Electric Railway in Dallas, Texas as car number 316. When Texas Electric ceased operating in 1948, its fleet of interurban railcars was sold for salvage. Car number 316

280-685: Is under consideration. This was followed by a filing with the STB on July 15, 2019. The proposal to establish an operating railroad museum has appeared to have withered and there's no mention of it in the abandonment filing, nor does the website of the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Resurrection, Ltd., show any meetings past the one on February 13, 2019. An article in the Shore Daily News dated April 27, 2021, noted that track removal had begun in Bloxom and

320-624: The Birney Safety Car and the PCC streetcar , a design that was very popular at the time. The firm went on to build some of the vehicles used in the transit systems of New York City and Chicago , as well as the FM OP800 railcars manufactured exclusively for the Southern Railway in 1939. The St. Louis Car Company was headed by Edwin B. Meissner Sr., who died at age 71 on Sept. 12, 1956. Meissner

360-646: The DCP traffic (butane) has been lost from the Little Creek side; however, he is hopeful that other new traffic will be realized to fill the void." DCP traffic amounted to approximately 75% of the carloads handled by the railroad. In January 2018 the BCR suffered another loss when customer Bayshore Concrete announced it was putting its Cape Charles plant up for sale in the wake of declining business. BCR used two tug boat -guided railroad car floats of 25 and 15 car capacity to link

400-671: The Delmarva Central Railroad took over operations from Norfolk Southern and the line is now part of the Delmarva Central Railroad's Delmarva Subdivision. In 2018, the Delmarva Central Railroad took over operations from the Bay Coast Railroad between Pocomoke City and Hallwood, Virginia while the line between Hallwood and Cape Charles was abandoned. St. Louis Car Company 38°42′38″N 90°13′32″W  /  38.710668°N 90.225509°W  / 38.710668; -90.225509 The St. Louis Car Company

440-458: The Eastern Shore of Virginia , Northampton and Accomack counties formed the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission. The commission purchased the rail line in 1976 and selected Virginia and Maryland Railroad Company as its operator. Eastern Shore Railroad , Inc. replaced Virginia and Maryland as the operator in 1981. In 2005, Cassatt Management, LLC was selected as operator and

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480-665: The Paris Metro in France. Meissner's son, Edwin B. Meissner Jr., succeeded his father as head of the company, and continues to be an active member of Congregation Shaare Emeth. Streetcars held sway in St. Louis and its suburbs from the 1880s until the mid- and late 1940s. Andrew Young records that new state-of-the-art buses began to encroach on the streetcars domain. New streamlined streetcars were brought into service in 1946 to replace older cars, some dating back to 1903. In 1960, St. Louis Car Company

520-636: The Pennsylvania Railroad system. The NYP&N was the vision of William Lawrence Scott , an Erie, Pennsylvania, coal magnate, who wanted to build a shorter railroad route between the coal wharfs of Hampton Roads by utilizing a ferry line across the Chesapeake Bay and a railroad line up the Delmarva Peninsula to the industrial north. Scott enlisted engineering help from Pennsylvania Railroad Vice-President, Alexander J. Cassatt , who saw

560-475: The "Lines") owned by: (a) Canonie Atlantic Co. ("CAC") on behalf of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission; and (b) Norfolk Southern Railway Company ("NSR"). The Lines are currently leased to, and operated by, BCR. Specifically, the CAC-owned portion of Lines (which BCR leases and operates) are as follows: A notice of exemption to authorize a change in operator from BCR to BB will be filed with

600-617: The 26-mile (42 km) water route across the Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles and Norfolk — using the north and south terminals of the now defunct Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry . This car float operation had been in continuous service since April 1885, and was one of only three remaining in the United States, the others being New York New Jersey Rail, LLC , and the Alaska Railroad's rail barge service from Seattle to Whittier. In late March 2014 VP for operations Larry LeMond stated

640-631: The DCR will take over operations where there are remaining customers. The line between Hallwood and Cape Charles will be abandoned. Railpace magazine reported the Buckingham Branch Railroad will take over BCR operations on the Norfolk side. An article in Trains News Wire, however, stated that Norfolk Southern Railway was in negotiations to take over Norfolk side operations. The DCR began operations on

680-477: The Norfolk & Western. So in 1929 the PRR built the little creek yard in the little creek area of Virginia Beach near the Norfolk/Virginia Beach line. This small but impressive yard also had a float bridge for carfloats carrying passengers and mixed freight across the Chesapeake Bay from Cape Charles and places farther north such as Philadelphia and New York. The PRR also had a small shop building next to

720-511: The STB on or shortly after June 13, 2018, in Docket No. FD 36202. In August 2018 the non-profit New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Resurrection, Ltd., was chartered and met with the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission and Canonie Atlantic Co. on November 6, 2018, in Melfa, Virginia. The NYP&N seeks to set up an operating railroad museum using the dormant BCR tracks. By

760-767: The Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, a tourist line in Trego, Wisconsin. Note: No. 400 was acquired by the Minnesota-based Northern Lines Railway and repainted in Cascade green by Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Missouri. Note: Both GP10 2000 and 2001 were out of service by the time of the railroad's closure. 2000 had a set of trucks swapped with GP38 2014 in August 2013 and appeared to be missing

800-576: The action believes any hope that track could be rehabilitated to extend railroad service south of the current terminus in Hallwood. New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad (NYP%26N) The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad ( reporting mark NYP&N ) was a railroad line that ran down the spine of the Delmarva Peninsula from Delmar, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia and then by ferry to Norfolk, Virginia . It became part of

840-622: The company built automobiles, including the American Mors , the Skelton , and the Standard Six . The St. Louis Aircraft Corporation division of the company partnered with the Huttig Sash and Door company in 1917 to produce aircraft. During the two world wars, the company manufactured gliders, trainers , alligators , flying boats , and dirigible gondolas. Among their most successful products were

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880-548: The end of January 2019 five cars were moved from the Cape Charles railroad yard eastward to a point beyond the hump adjacent to the museum. The move also include BCR 2000, the remaining BCR locomotive, and the work was performed by Coastal Railroad Construction, Inc of Portsmouth and paid for by the Cape Charles Historical Society. The rail yard is being dismantled to allow for redevelopment of the land and some of

920-545: The formation of Conrail . With the breakup of Conrail many short-line railroads acquired parts of the route – freight service between Pocomoke City, Maryland , and Norfolk, Virginia was operated by the Eastern Shore Railroad between 1981 and 2006 and the Bay Coast Railroad between 2006 and 2018. The section north of Pocomoke City was operated by Norfolk Southern Railway as its Delmarva Secondary. In 2016,

960-658: The former Bay Coast Railroad between Pocomoke City and Hallwood in June 2018. A filing with the STB dated June 13, 2018 stated, in part: Pursuant to regulations of the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") at 49 C.F.R. § l 150.42(e), Buckingham Branch Railroad Company ("BB"), a Class III rail carrier, hereby gives notice to employees of Cassatt Management, LLC d/b/a Bay Coast Railroad ("BCR") that, as soon as federal regulatory authorization permits, BB intends to lease and commence operations over lines of railroad (collectively,

1000-483: The merits of the plan and took a hiatus from PRR to work on the new line. Cassatt surveyed the line on horseback, designed ferries and wharfs, acquired other railroads, most notably the Eastern Shore Railroad (1853), and the line was ready for operation in 1884. The line was financed by many PRR interests and was officially merged into the PRR in 1921. Through the first half of the 20th century, several trains

1040-573: The named trains were gone, and all that remained was a once-a-day Philadelphia –Cape Charles train. In 1958, the route was shortened: from Philadelphia to Delmar, Delaware at the Delaware–Maryland border. The last train was a Wilmington–Delmar train, Blue Diamond, ending in 1965. The original ferry crossing was 30 miles, which was later reduced to 26 miles when the terminals were relocated. Both passenger and freight ferries existed. Up to 30 freight cars could be loaded on flat barges pulled by

1080-577: The new town of Cape Charles in 1884 at the point where the railroad's northern section met the Chesapeake Bay. From its inception, the NYP&;N operated profitably and contributed to an economic boom on the Delmarva peninsula that continued until the Great Depression. By 1928, The Pennsylvania Railroad had taken over the NYP&N's operations and were looking for a faster route to the port to interchange with

1120-693: The passenger capsules, designed by Planet Corporation, to ferry visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch at the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Car continued business until 1968 and ceased operations in 1974. The final St. Louis Car products were R44 subway cars for the New York City Subway and Staten Island Rapid Transit , and

1160-476: The railroad acquired its current name. BCR had three distinct operating areas. The 64.1-mile (103.2 km) northern portion of its rail system connects with the Delmarva Central Railroad in Pocomoke City (north) and the system's car float in Cape Charles, Virginia . A car float, crossing 26 miles (42 km) of the Chesapeake Bay from Cape Charles to Norfolk, comprises the middle portion. The southern end of

1200-618: The railroad had not run the barge for more than a year and a half and had no intention to resume the service. He also stated that all of the railroad's traffic comes into Pocomoke City to the north and the company operates every other day. An article in Delmarva Now online dated January 14, 2019 noted that the minutes of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission meeting of December 4, 2018 stated, "The rail car barge Nandua has been sold." The buyer, Iron Planet, seeks to sell it for $ 200,000. In 2007, Bay Creek Railway began operating

1240-528: The rolling stock will be put on display at the Cape Charles Museum and Visitor Center. Remaining rolling stock, such as flatcars and ex-Southern Railway gondolas built in the 1930s and 1940s, is being offered for donation to railroad museums. An article in Railway Track & Structures dated July 2, 2019, stated that Cassatt Management LLC planned to file to abandon the line. Conversion to a rail-trail

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1280-453: The south side of Taylor Street in Hallwood, Virginia, a distance of approximately 14.8 miles (the "Line"). DCR's operations will replace those currently conducted on the Line by BCR." An exemption notice to change railroad operators will be filed with the STB around May 21, 2018. As most or all BCR rail traffic on the line is located on the northern end between Pocomoke City and Hallwood, Virginia ,

1320-544: The system is a terminal track around Little Creek, Virginia , connecting with Norfolk Southern Railway , CSX Transportation , and the Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad . At the regular meeting of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission held at the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Building, Melfa, Virginia, on Monday, November 6, 2017, at 5:30 p.m., BCR President Alex Parry "reported that

1360-553: The yard (which is still is standing and in use as of 2018) for repairing locomotives. This new route supposedly saved the Pennsy 25 miles of carfloat travel from Cape Charles to Norfolk. After World War II , railroad passenger use declined in favor of the automobile. Passenger service on the NYP&N south of Delmar, Delaware at the Maryland-Delaware border ended on January 12, 1958. In an effort to preserve freight rail service on

1400-501: Was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars , streetcars , interurbans , trolleybuses and locomotives . It operated from 1887 to 1974 and was based in St. Louis , Missouri. The St. Louis Car Company was formed in April 1887 to manufacture and sell streetcars and other kinds of rolling stock of street and steam railways supporting the traction industry. In succeeding years

1440-597: Was acquired by General Steel Industries . In 1964, St. Louis Car completed an order of 430 World's Fair picture-window cars ( R36 WF ) for the New York City Subway and was building 162 PA-1s (110 single units, 52 trailers) for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for their use on the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line to New Jersey. Also in the mid-1960s, the company completed building

1480-514: Was built with the same dimensions, and the last ship was the Virginia Lee . Because most of the route served a rural area, revenue expectations were never met. Branches were abandoned and the final remnant of passenger service, a shuttle between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Delmar, Delaware , was discontinued in the mid-1960s. NYP&N’s identity was lost with the Penn Central merger and

1520-452: Was out of service so the BCR leased an EMD GP11 numbered 2005 from the Delmarva Central Railroad to pull the last train to the interchange with the DCR. LLPX 2014 was moved "dead in tow." A document filed on May 17, 2018, with the Surface Transportation Board by the Delmarva Central Railroad read in part: "Pursuant to regulations of the Surface Transportation Board ("STB") at 49 C.F.R. § 1150.42(e), Delmarva Central Railroad Company ("DCR"),

1560-518: Was president of the company, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of railroad and light rail cars, and the St. Louis Aircraft Corporation. He was active for many years on the Jewish Federation Board of Directors, and served for over 20 years as President of Congregation Shaare Emeth . The St. Louis Car Co., later known as General Steel Industries, manufactured St. Louis streetcars and trolleys and cars for far-flung transit systems such as

1600-578: Was used as a cabin at a ranch in Fort Worth, Texas until its restoration for the Bay Creek Railway. By December 21, 2011, the car was listed for sale on the Ozark Mountain Railcar equipment broker website. The initial asking price was $ 260,000, later reduced to $ 205,000. The dining car was eventually sold, loaded onto a flat bed trailer and departed Cape Charles on March 11, 2014.? It is now on

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