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Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Company

Existence:
 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1883-02-21-

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert E. Wilhelm, Jr. collection of Red Clay Valley materials

 Collection
Accession: 2017-238
Abstract:

Chartered in 1869, the Wilmington & Western Rail Road Company formed to create a rail line connecting Wilmington, Delaware, with Landenberg, Pennsylvania. A non-profit organization, Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc. (HRCV)., formed in 1960 and today operates the line as a heritage railroad. The collection includes eight maps of the line created by the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1918 and two publications concerning the history of both the Wilmington & Western Railroad line and HRCV.

Dates: 1918; 1992; 2016