Eastern Shore Railroad (19th century)
An early 1890s map of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad showing the Eastern Shore Railroad line | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Stations called at | Salisbury, Fruitland, Eden, Loretto, Princess Anne, King's Creek, Westover, Kingston, Marion, Hopewell, Crisfiled |
| Headquarters | Princess Anne, Maryland |
| Key people | John W. Crisfield |
| Locale | Eastern Shore of Maryland, U.S. |
| Dates of operation | 1860–1884 |
| Successor | New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 37 miles (60 km) |
The Eastern Shore Railroad was a railroad, opened in 1860, that connected the Delaware Railroad at Delmar to the Chesapeake Bay at Crisfield, Maryland and by boat to Norfolk, Virginia. It was also used to connect a branch to Pocomoke City, Maryland in 1871. It was reorganized in 1879 and then purchased by the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad in 1884. It is unrelated to the 20th century Eastern Shore Railroad which ran on a different set of tracks.