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4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Washington, Brandywine & Point Lookout Railroad (WB&PL) (originally, the Southern Maryland Railroad) was an American railroad that operated in southern Maryland and Washington, D.C., from 1918 to 1942; but it and other, shorter-lived entities used the same right-of-way from 1883 to 1965.
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...
19 miles (31 km) [1] The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark MPA), colloquially known as the "Ma and Pa", was an American short-line railroad between York and Hanover, Pennsylvania, formerly operating passenger and freight trains on its original line between York and Baltimore, Maryland, from 1901 until the 1950s.
Southern Maryland Railroad: 1882 1886 Washington and Potomac Railroad: Virginia Midland Railway: SOU: 1880 1886 Richmond and Danville Railroad: Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: SOU: 1872 1873 Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad: RF&P: 1862 1868 Alexandria and ...
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad: M&PA, MPA 1901 1985 N/A Maryland and Pennsylvania Terminal Railway: 1905 1985 N/A Metropolitan Railroad (Maryland) 1853 1863 N/A Following the 1863 bankruptcy, B&O built its Metropolitan Branch along a similar route Metropolitan Southern Railroad: B&O: 1890 1988 N/A New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and ...
UTC−4 (EDT) The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. The metropolitan area includes ...
Baltimore Day Express 1958 — 1968 Buffalo, NY — Baltimore, MD — Washington, DC; Bankers Special 1928 — 1930 Jersey City, NJ — Philadelphia, PA; Bar Harbor Express 1917 — 1960
Length. 669 mi (1,077 km) [1] The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) was an American railroad that operated independently from 1836 to 1881. Headquartered in Philadelphia, it was greatly enlarged in 1838 by the merger of four state-chartered railroads in three Mid-Atlantic states to create a single line between Philadelphia ...