by salminkarkku
Here's some info I've picked up on railroad schemes to do with Chesapeake Beach.
1883-6 "Southern Maryland" (intended to build to Point Comfort area)
1886-1901 "Washington & Potomac" (built to Mechanicsburg, I think)
1901-18 "Washington Potomac & Chesapeake" (had Mechanicsburg line, also length in DC which later became "Eastern Washington" to Seat Pleasant. Started to grade the gap, but busted.)
1896-1936. "Chesapeake Beach". Leased the DC stub from WPC, built from Seat Pleasant.
1936 CB went bust, the WPC stub was re-incorporated as the "East Washington".
I read somewhere that CP wanted to electrify, and run cars from the WBA terminal in New York Ave, Washington. Passenger service from CB terminated at "District Line" on the WBA and that was also the stop for Seat Pleasant. There was a freight depot for Seat Pleasant where the "East Washington" later terminated, to the south-east.
Also, I have an old atlas (1907) showing a line running off the CB line down the west side of the Patuxent estuary to Golden Beach. CP scheme, or PRR, or independent of both?
I've come across a report of a court action by the proprietors of the Annapolis-Claiborne ferry trying to stop the CB establishing a "ferry service" across the bay. (The CB won). Was this an attempt at a car float? I know the CB ran steamers to Claiborne, Oxford and Cambridge but a car float service would have created a market for perishables from farmers in Delmarva to Washington. Since the traffic would have been created rather than appropriated, the PRR probably would have been friendly and the CB would have done well.
Dreaming of an electric car from downtown Washington to Chesapeake Bay and a fast ferry to Cambridge, instead of driving Route 50 in rush hour?
1883-6 "Southern Maryland" (intended to build to Point Comfort area)
1886-1901 "Washington & Potomac" (built to Mechanicsburg, I think)
1901-18 "Washington Potomac & Chesapeake" (had Mechanicsburg line, also length in DC which later became "Eastern Washington" to Seat Pleasant. Started to grade the gap, but busted.)
1896-1936. "Chesapeake Beach". Leased the DC stub from WPC, built from Seat Pleasant.
1936 CB went bust, the WPC stub was re-incorporated as the "East Washington".
I read somewhere that CP wanted to electrify, and run cars from the WBA terminal in New York Ave, Washington. Passenger service from CB terminated at "District Line" on the WBA and that was also the stop for Seat Pleasant. There was a freight depot for Seat Pleasant where the "East Washington" later terminated, to the south-east.
Also, I have an old atlas (1907) showing a line running off the CB line down the west side of the Patuxent estuary to Golden Beach. CP scheme, or PRR, or independent of both?
I've come across a report of a court action by the proprietors of the Annapolis-Claiborne ferry trying to stop the CB establishing a "ferry service" across the bay. (The CB won). Was this an attempt at a car float? I know the CB ran steamers to Claiborne, Oxford and Cambridge but a car float service would have created a market for perishables from farmers in Delmarva to Washington. Since the traffic would have been created rather than appropriated, the PRR probably would have been friendly and the CB would have done well.
Dreaming of an electric car from downtown Washington to Chesapeake Bay and a fast ferry to Cambridge, instead of driving Route 50 in rush hour?