260:). The WC&PL also broke ground on its rail line to Point Lookout in 1881 and, like the SMR, it started at a connection with the Baltimore and Potomac at Brandywine. The two started work at almost the exact same time and their two roads were no more than 100 feet apart. At this point both companies had graded separated routes from Point Lookout to California, MD; but only the SMR had graded the road from California to Brandywine and so they were laying track faster. When it came time for the WC&PL to issue more bonds to continue the work, a rumor that the SMR had secured a larger loan than the WC&PL scared off the WC&PL's English investors. The WC&PL formed an alliance with the B&O, but their plans were scuttled by company President
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surveyed and graded in the 1880's. They had hoped to reach
Hollywood by the summer of 1922, but work stalled and the extension only made it as far as Forrest Hall, where a new station opened in 1926. Rains in August 1928 caused three washouts, which halted service for two months. In that same year, the railroad ended passenger service because it was no longer profitable. The railroad helped carry material for building the paved highway (which brought more competition from trucks), schools and repairing the military school in Charlotte Hall and also pulp, wood, lumber and farm products outbound and merchandise, fertilizer, machinery and gasoline inbound.
354:. Owners of the competing Washington and Tidewater railroad, tried to get the state to force Watson to either build more rail or allow them to - as under Maryland law he was required to build 5 miles of rail by November 1914. For years afterward, residents of St. Mary's County and owners of other chartered railroads tried to get the WP&CR's charter revoked as there was still interest in completing the line or a parallel one.
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the W&P in 1901. The case went to the
Supreme Court and in 1905 WP&CR won and took title to the railway. The CBR then stopped running on the DC section of the railway, instead stopping at the train station in Seat Pleasant called District Line. In 1911, the CBR started leasing the District section of the line and continued until the WP&CR went out of business in 1918. At that point they purchased the section.
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Lookout, fought efforts to get extensions and tried to undermine funding. After their attempt to get an extension on the deadline was killed by the
Maryland House in March of 1900, the Union Trust Company foreclosed on the railroad, it was put in receivership and then forcibly auctioned off on the steps of courthouse in Upper Marlboro in July for $ 100,000.
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cars. The Navy operated an "accommodation" train that connected with the
Pennsylvania Railroad in Brandywine until the PRR stopped passenger trains on the Pope's Creek Line in 1949. By 1952, the Navy had 55 miles of track, three diesel locomotives, and three dozen railcars delivering gasoline, coal, ammunition and airplane parts.
275:) and laid track to Mechanicsville. Trains began running between Brandywine and Mechanicsville in 1883. At that time the railroad was still planning to build a line from Benning to Brandywine, to extend the line to Point Lookout and to build a spur off the mainline to Esperanza just across from Solomon's Island.
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By 1920, the struggling WB&PL was unable to make payments on the principle of its loan to the federal government and quit paying interest in 1932, despite being exempt from state taxes. However "the perseverance and personal sacrifice of the management and stockholders" along with the forbearance
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The W&P was unable to expand the rail line in any direction due to lack of funding and a constant need to extend the deadline to complete the road to Point
Lookout. Competing railroads, like the Washington and Seaboard Railroad which was chartered in 1898 to build a line from Hyattsville to Point
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on April 1, 1886, and trains continued to run until the end of 1889 when a fire destroyed the roundhouse, engines and rolling stock. A lawyer from New York, working with the WC&PL, received permission from the underlying land owners to build another line on the same route and began running trains
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Southern was finally granted permission to enter the District of Columbia. Work began on grading that 2.2 mile rail line from Benning via Deanwood in 1884 and some track was laid by 1885. By 1886, the railroad had laid down ties and some rail in D.C., but it never operated trains on this
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In April 1943, the Navy paid the company $ 127,500 to settle their claims and ran their first train that month. It included a wye just north of
Lexington Park with a small stub into north Lexington Park and 15 miles of siding and yard track. Its 32 employees operated three diesel locomotives and 110
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In 1885, having spent extensive money on construction but putting into operations only the lightly used line between
Brandywine and Mechanicsville, the railroad went into default and in 1886 it was forcibly sold for $ 75,000 to a syndicate of Boston investors, who reincorporated it as the Washington
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Without coal trains there are no more regular customers on the subdivision and in 2022 the Chalk Point switchers were moved out of state. It has been suggested that the line be used for transit, but a 2009 study considered the route for commuter rail and found it to be circuitous, slow, and costly.
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was formed to purchase it. That company, owned by locals along the line, was unable to raise the full amount needed so the federal government lent them $ 50,000, on the grounds of military necessity and on the condition that the government would oversee and supervise operations of the railroad. The
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They quickly set to exerting their control over the tracks the SMR had built in the
District, beginning ejectment hearings against the Chesapeake Beach Railway in 1902. In 1898, the CBR took possession of this section of railway, presumably via a tax auction and used it for its operation, ejecting
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By 1953, the aging track rails were frequently breaking; operators requested that the rails be replaced. After a cost/benefit analysis, the Navy decided to discontinue service. The last train ran from
Patuxent NAS to Hollywood on June 30, 1954, carrying employees, family members, troops, and the
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since 1959, and when the county purchased it in 1970, the SRC got the right to use whatever portions it needed in exchange for financing the replacement of the lost section of utility corridor. The highway was widened onto the railroad ROW in three parts in 1973, 1982 and 1985. In the late 20th
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In November 1921, work began on expanding the line to Hollywood and then to Esperanza with a spur off the main line south of California, where they hoped to gain access to an important freight terminal, and then later to Point Lookout. The work was made easier because much of the route had been
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In 1874, the U.S. Naval Board reported that Point Lookout, with its key location and deep water, would be a good location for a coaling station. The Navy also thought that the railroad, paired with a steamer, could cut the travel time between Washington and Norfolk by six hours. The Navy thus
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in Brandywine. Most of the rail was constructed by the Southern Maryland Railroad, which also built a section of track in East Washington that was intended to connect with this line but never did. The WB&PL was later acquired by the Navy, which extended the line to Cedar Point and the
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on the repaired W&P tracks but was stopped by an injunction brought by the legal owners of the W&P. After a lengthy 1892 court case, the WC&PL lost and was placed into receivership under control of the W&P. The WC&PL was sold at public auction in 1895 for $ 2500.
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facility where the service's aeronautics bureau had consolidated its aviation testing programs. The Navy replaced the existing rail with newer, heavier rail; rehabilitated the track structure; acquired new right-of-way, and extended service to Millstone Landing on the
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to deliver coal, bringing renewed value to the northern 11.5 miles of track. This track is called the Herbert Subdivision, while the source of the name is not confirmed, one source attributes it to John C. Herbert, who was a Vice-President of PEPCO at the time.
200:. The company's founders hoped that a rail line from the major north-south Potomac River crossings into Virginia near Washington, D.C., to a port on the Patuxent River near the Chesapeake Bay would spur agricultural and mineral businesses on the peninsula.
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The Navy chose not to dispose of the railroad, to leave it "available for prompt return to the Government should occasion arise." and later that year, the PRR took control. It continued to run a weekly train through St. Mary's and used the line to deliver
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The railroad was eventually sold to a New York corporation that was then dissolved. On December 31, 1917 the railroad was shut down and the company began removing the track, about a half mile of it, for scrap due to the high price of scrap metal during
192:(SMR) was incorporated on March 20, 1868, “for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and working a railroad from some point in Prince George’s County to Point Lookout.” The planned right-of-way ran along the peninsula created by two rivers: the
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supported a bill that would guarantee the SMR a payment if they completed the railroad, but it never passed. Nonetheless the promise of a guaranteed customer if the line could be completed drew the frequent attention of other railroaders.
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who brought in Edgar A. and John P. Poe and the new owners again planned to extend the railroad to Esperanza. Watson tried to extend the rail line, but money from French investors fell through in 1911 and again in 1912 because of the
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From South Sandgates Road to Rescue Lane and from FDR Boulevard to Pegg Road the right-of-way is a utility corridor and a future route of the Three Notch Trail, though some short sections of the trail have been built in this
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Warehouse and shipping point until it was destroyed by fire. The Brandywine terminal was U.S. government property and was maintained by Public Works personnel from Patuxent River. The terminal was turned over to the
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After the Washington and Potomac was sold, there were many people interested in acquiring its assets and trying to connect it to Point Lookout and its strategic location and deep water, included a group headed by
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At the Naval Air Station the right-of-way is used for parts of Bose Road, Davis Spur Road, Tate Road and Bonnie Road and tracks remain in the Supply Department section of the base as well as across one of the
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In 1940, the railroad had to stop running trains between Mechanicsville and Forrest Hall because of poor maintenance and later that year it sought, and received, permission to abandon that segment.
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and this motivated work on grading the rail which started in the spring of that year. Prior to that only work being done was surveying and fund-raising. That same year a competitor railroad, the
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362:. Maryland's senators then called on the U.S. government to buy the railroad to keep it from being removed, arguing that it had a critical national defense purpose. When that failed, Rep.
762:"LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Southern Claims--Postal Changes--Baltimore and Potomac and Southern Maryland Railroad Construction--German Political Meetings--Butler on Lobbying--Local News".
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The tracks were removed in the mid-1970 and SMECO put transmission lines on the right-of way. The State Roads Commission had been trying to acquire part of the ROW for use expanding
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In 1905, the railroad started acquiring right-of-way to extend the railroad to Esperanza, where the Navy was considering a base across from Drum Point, but no work was ever done.
234:. SMR officials frequently promised to complete the work, but had laid down no rails or ties when it was forced into receivership in 1875. In 1876, the SMR was investigated for
264:. Years later when it became clear that the endeavor was hopeless the rails and ties, which had sat in piles in Brandywine, were reallocated to the building of the
816:"LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: The Treasury Robbery Case--Judgment on the Attachment Case--Postal Affairs--The Burglar Schneider--The Colored People and the Schools".
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century, the county sold numerous easements across the right-of-way to adjacent landowners and beneath 2.5 miles of it to the Washington Gas Light Company.
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purchase was completed in July 1918. By 1919, trains were running again, using a gasoline engine for passengers and a steam engine for freight.
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and increased competition from trucking. For a time, the railroad ran two trains a week, and on other days employees worked on their farms.
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Over the next couple of years the SMR graded the railroad all the way to Esperanza (located on the Patuxent just downstream from the current
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938:"Railroad Matters: THE SOUTHERN MARYLAND--IMPENDING CONSOLIDATION OF PACIFIC ROADS--THE SEABOARD AND ITS CAROLINA CENTRAL PURCHASE, ETC".
778:"An Act to authorize the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a Railroad into and within the District of Columbia"
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had the government cancel the contracts to buy the scrap metal from the new owners and had the court intervene to prevent their removal.
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2103:"Official Offers Road Map For Fixing Traffic Troubles: Dyson Wants to Bring Light Rail to Southern Maryland".
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In 1962, the Pennsy built a spur off of the line from the north side of Hughesville to the new
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Map showing the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad and its connections in 1888
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trackage that runs from Brandywine to Hughesville, where it connects to a spur to the
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953:"Midshipmen Ordered Home-- Star-Route-Cases--Removal of De Long's Remains, &c".
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860:"THE POINT LOOKOUT ROAD.: Work Begun on the New Outlet for Southern Maryland".
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The Southern Maryland Railroad was eventually sold to a new company called the
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2119:"Three Notch Trail Awarded $ 4.1 Million in Funding for 3.3 Mile Extension"
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In November 1909, the railroad went into foreclosure and was purchased by
1253:"Chesapeake Beach R Co v. Washington P & C R Co, 199 U.S. 247 (1905)"
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Reynolds, Patrick M. (27 May 2012). "Flashbacks - The Navy's Railroad".
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WB&PL Engine No. 5 at Mechanicsville, Maryland, on September 1, 1934
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1894:"Two Coal Plants in Prince George's County Will Shut Down By Next Year"
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After it was shut down and nearly scrapped in 1918, a new company, the
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Map showing the Southern Maryland Railroad and its connections in 1881
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Baker, E T (18 April 1943). "Mr. And Mrs. Jones Ride The Steam Cars".
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for special movements to/from the Brandywine Junction, which became a
1784:"Map of Calvert County Showing the Topography and Election Districts"
431:, the Air Station's northernmost point. They changed the name to the
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The company quickly set its sights on running into Washington, D.C.
1789:. State of Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources
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Commissioners purchased 28 miles of the abandoned right-of-way from
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2014:"St. Mary's Sees Costly Flaw in Dyson Bill to Create Light Rail"
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78th Congress, 1st Session House of Representatives Report #880
1512:"With Work Actually Under Way, St. Mary's Hopes to Have R.R.".
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Washington, Brandywine & Point Lookout Railroad (WB&PL)
801:"The Southern Maryland Railroad-Its Progress and Advantages".
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In 2006 the state and county began to build a rail trail, the
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Roloson, Kenneth F. (September 2003). "Herbert Subdivision".
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Boutell, Hugh G. (May 1942). "The Chesapeake Beach Railway".
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Southern Maryland Railroad, Washington & Potomac Railroad
2064:. State Roads Commission of Maryland. 5 May 1971. p. 5
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Planning for a railroad to Point Lookout started in 1866.
1966:"CSX Freight Train Hauling Two Chalk Point EMD Switchers"
1829:"Washington, Brandywine and Point Lookout Carrier Status"
2092:(Map). Baltimore: Maryland State Highway Administration.
663:. These tracks are now part of CSX's Herbert Subdivision
1289:"Washington, Potomac And Chesapeake Wants To Come In".
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Long, E. John (November 1952). "Brake Shoes aweigh!".
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The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin
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to the base. However, when fuel started coming in by
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U.S. Naval Air Station Railroad, Herbert Subdivision
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1992:"Group Discusses Saving Of Patuxent's Rail Lane".
1603:"Trains once rolled regularly through St. Mary's"
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2083:Maryland State Highway Administration (1973).
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890:"Proposed Railroads in Southern Maryland".
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1013:"Sale of the Southern Maryland Railroad".
983:"Work on the Southern Maryland Railroad".
212:Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad
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708:"Corporators of the Point Lookout Road".
1700:. L. K. Strouse. 1940. pp. 181–182.
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1364:"ASK DISSOLUTION OF W.P.& C. LINE".
1672:U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin
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998:"The Washington and Potomac Railroad".
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1237:"Railroads In Ejectment Proceedings".
256:(later the Pope's Creek branch of the
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1729:"Federal Railroad to Ease Shipping".
1058:"Railroad Progress and Development".
495:Abandonment of the Cedar Point Branch
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687:The Point Lookout Railroad Trail in
676:Mileposts, MP13 & W still exist.
2012:Mengaliman, Jessie (4 April 1998).
1601:Leibe, Paul C. (27 December 2006).
1527:"Brandywine Road Plans Extension".
1073:"Order issued in a Railroad Case".
437:Brandywine and Cedar Point Railroad
579:Mechanicsville (original terminus)
435:although it was also known as the
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291:Washington & Potomac Railroad
1642:. 12 December 1943. pp. 1–4
1422:"WANT U. S. TO TAKE OVER ROAD".
433:U.S. Naval Air Station Railroad,
420:Patuxent River Naval Air Station
287:& Potomac Railroad Company.
238:the state of Maryland, the sole
2194:List of United States railroads
1945:"CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision"
1921:"2022 Maryland State Rail Plan"
1812:"Amendments to Senate Bill 256"
1543:"Trunk Line Association Docket"
905:Dimock, Anthony Weston (1915).
2148:Photos of railroad's artifacts
2086:Maryland: Official Highway Map
1892:Shwe, Elizabeth (2020-08-14).
1467:"So. Md. Railroad Bought In".
1174:"The Washington and Potomac".
1103:"The Point Lookout Railroad".
875:"THE POINT LOOKOUT RAILROAD".
831:"Business in the Committees".
661:Chalk Point Generating Station
477:Chalk Point Generating Station
455:station's band playing music.
273:Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge
254:Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
170:Chalk Point Generating Station
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847:"Maryland Session Laws, 1878"
725:Laws of the State of Maryland
459:Pennsylvania Railroad control
1745:"1953 Map of Calvert County"
1482:""Gas" Engine Draws Train".
1204:"Railway to Point Lookout".
1497:"Ask Funds for Extension".
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2490:Defunct Maryland railroads
1858:"Power Plant in a Hurry".
1304:"For Railroad Extension".
1118:"Point Lookout Railroad".
747:"Point Lookout Railroad".
190:Southern Maryland Railroad
181:Southern Maryland Railroad
166:Patuxent Naval Air Station
147:that operated in southern
141:Southern Maryland Railroad
64:, to Cedar Point, Maryland
18:Southern Maryland Railroad
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1452:"Old Railroad is Saved".
1407:"Sorely Miss Old Train".
1334:"To attack its Charter".
1134:"Washington and Seaboard"
907:Wall Street and the Wilds
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1437:"Saved From Junk Pile".
1319:"Extension Their Plan".
1222:"To wait for business".
689:Point Lookout State Park
551:Original line: pre-1926
521:for a utility corridor.
445:U.S. Government Railroad
281:Chesapeake Beach Railway
266:Chesapeake Beach Railway
157:Mechanicsville, Maryland
1349:"Capitol to Bay Line".
1088:"A Railroad Decision".
1028:"Railroad Litigation".
647:just before it burned.
630:and occasionally a USN
543:, on the right-of-way.
58:Seat Pleasant, Maryland
2061:Maryland Route 235 EIS
1875:Railfan & Railroad
1833:Practicioner's Journal
1666:Mann, Carl M. (1952).
1553:: 24. 26 February 1926
1189:"Point Lookout Road".
1159:"SALE OF A RAILROAD".
968:"CITY NEWS IN BRIEF".
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2196:by political division
640:Department of Defense
485:GenOn Energy Holdings
483:Chalk Point operator
412:Second War Powers Act
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347:Henry Winfield Watson
258:Pennsylvania Railroad
161:Pennsylvania Railroad
1733:. 24 September 1942.
1547:The Traffic Bulletin
1208:. 22 September 1901.
1193:. 27 September 1900.
397:the Great Depression
228:Alexandria Extension
62:Brandywine, Maryland
2121:. 29 September 2018
2105:The Washington Post
2039:"Three Notch Trail"
2018:The Washington Post
1996:. 17 February 1966.
1994:The Washington Post
1860:The Washington Post
1716:The Washington Post
1529:The Washington Post
1499:The Washington Post
1366:The Washington Post
1351:The Washington Post
1338:. 14 November 1912.
1306:The Washington Post
1293:. 10 December 1903.
1206:The Washington Post
1047:. 19 February 1891.
970:The Washington Post
925:The Washington Post
835:. 27 February 1878.
751:. 12 February 1869.
651:Surviving landmarks
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2107:. 2 February 2006.
1862:. 23 January 1963.
1531:. 16 January 1922.
1486:. 31 October 1919.
1368:. 1 December 1917.
1241:. 14 January 1902.
1122:. 4 November 1895.
1107:. 19 October 1892.
1092:. 10 October 1892.
1043:"Maryland Items".
1017:. 14 January 1886.
942:. 6 February 1882.
712:. 6 February 1866.
593:federal government
416:United States Navy
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143:) was an American
69:Dates of operation
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2153:Three Notch Trail
1770:The Baltimore Sun
1731:The Baltimore Sun
1668:"End of the Line"
1579:Trains and Travel
1516:. 8 January 1922.
1514:The Baltimore Sun
1484:The Baltimore Sun
1469:The Baltimore Sun
1454:The Baltimore Sun
1439:The Baltimore Sun
1424:The Baltimore Sun
1409:The Baltimore Sun
1336:The Baltimore Sun
1321:The Baltimore Sun
1291:The Baltimore Sun
1239:The Baltimore Sun
1226:. 12 August 1905.
1224:The Baltimore Sun
1191:The Baltimore Sun
1176:The Baltimore Sun
1161:The Baltimore Sun
1138:The Railway World
1120:The Baltimore Sun
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