The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-05-19
EASTERN SHORE TRUNK LINE,

OhiO fTpJoCls
System in Connection with the Ger
trail Railroad of New Jersey.
Arrangements are said to be com
pleted for taking the Baltimore and
Eastern Shore Railroad out of the hands
OF the receiver and making connection
with the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, by
which new trunk line will be built
down the Maryland peninsula to be
operated in the interest of the Baltimore
and OHIO. The same arrangements con
template extensions of the road on the
Eastern Shore to make direct connect
ions with the Baltimore aud Ohio rail-
road and to give rail traffic throughout
the entire length of tho Eastern PENN
sula Of Mary land.
From Lambson Station on the Balti-
more and Delaware Bay Road, "a line will
delphia division of the Baltimore and
Ohio Road. This will give direct con-
nectiop for the Baltimore and OHIO
through the Eastern shore counties, tap
ping nearly every county town in that
section and running through the most
prosperous agricultural portions of the
peninsula. The length of new road to
be built to complete this connection is
between forty and fifty miles.
The Baltimore aud Eastern Shore
Company has now rail route from
Ocean City, in Worcester county, to
Claiborne, in Talbot county. An act of
the last Legislature chartered the Easton
and Elkton Railway Company. This
road will be extended to Chestertown, in
Kent county, where it will connect with
the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Road,
which is controlled by the Central Road
of New Jersey.
If this arrangement is carried to COM
pletion, the coal trains would not be
required to use the Baltimore and Ohio
line farther than Childs Station, where
they would be switched to the new
branch and run to Lambsons, thence by
way of the Baltimo ore and Delaware Bay
to Bombay Hook. Here they would be
ferriCd across the Delaware Bay and be
taken up on the Jersey Southern division
Of the Central Railroad OF New Jersey
and run into New York. This plan will
remove all the slow freight trains from
the New York run of the Baltimore and
Ohio and the Jersey Central Road.
This proposed arrangement will, it is
said, also enable the b. and o. Company
to relieve its Philadelphia Branch of all
the slow freights which are now required
to be run over If. This relief will be of
great advantage, as the B. and o. is con
stantly running heavily laden coal trains
| over this branch to the interference OF
| fast passenger and freight service. 1t is
| this fass service which the company
wishes to improve by removing all
obstacles that stand in its way.
Another feature of this deal contem
| plates the transfer of the Baltimore and
Ohio transfer barge John W. Garrett,
now used in ferrying trains batwsen
| Locust Poius and Canton, to Bombay
| Hook, the tide water terminus Of the
Baltimore and Delaware Bay Road on
the Delaware bay, where the boat will
be used in ferrying freight trains across
| the bay to the connection of the Central
Railroad OF New Jersey at Bayside, in
New Jersey. BY the time these improve
ments are completed the Belt tunnel, it
is expected, will be finished and ready
for operation. This will euable the
Baltimore and Ohio Company to dispense
with its transfer barge at Baltimore, as
all the traffic for the Philadelphia Branch
which is now ferried from Locust Point
will go through the tunnel.
The money necessary to meet the
Indebtedness OF the Baltimore and East
ern Shore Company and to release it
from the control of Receiver Willard
Thompson, will it is understood, be fur,
nishcd by the Baltimore and Ohio, and
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
which latter road is also to profit by the
new deal.
1t is also said that Mr.. J. Rogers Max
well, president of the Central Railroad
OF New Jersey and Mr.. Thomas NJ. King
second vice president OF the Baltimore
aud Ohio Road, have already signed the
traffic agreement for ths route as cut
lined.
1t is also said by those interested il
this project that steps will be taken al
ouce for securing the necessary rights OF
way for the proposed connections and
that work will begin during this sum
mer.