Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-17
NEW PENINSULA TRUNK LINE
Probable Future of the B. g.
E. S. Railroad.
THE B. & 0. WILL FIGURE in IT
Also the Baltimore & Della
ware Bay Road.
The Result win BE New Peninsula
Trunk Line, by Way OF Easton, Chester
town and Chiids' Station--Also Freight
Line to New York, by Way of bombay
Hook.



Arrangements are said to have been
completed by which the Baltimore q
Eastern Shore Railroad Co. will be
taken out of the hands of the receiver
who has operated it for the past three
years. The same arrangements contem-
plate extensions OF the road on the
Eastern Shore to make direct connec-
tons with the Baltimore 4 Ohio road
and to give a rail traffic throughout the
entire length of the eastern peninsula
of Maryland.
The money necessary to meet the in
debtedness of the Baltimore IL Eastern
Shore Co. and to release it from the
control of Receiver Willard Thompson
will, it is understood, be furnished by
the Baltimore e. Ohio and the Central
Railroad Of New Jersey, which latter
road is also to profit by the new deal.
The Baltimore & Eastern Shore Co.
mas now rail route from Ocean City,
in Worcester county, to Claiborne, in
Talbot county. An act of the last Legis-
lnture chartered the Easton & Elktoh
hallway Co. This road will be built
under the arrangement, making direct
connection with the Baltimore & Eastern
shore at Easton. The new road will be
extended to Chestertown, in Kent
county, where it will connect with the
Baltimore Il Delaware Bay road, which
is controlled by the Central road of New
Jersey. From Lambson station, on the
Baltimore IL Delaware Bay road, line
will be built to Childs' station, on the
Philadelphia division of the Baltimore
u Ohio road. This will give a direct
rhnnnptinn for a.
through the Eastern Shore counties,
tapping 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 40 and so miles.
Another feature Of this deal con.
templates the transfer of the Baltimore
q Ohio transfer barge John w. Garrett,
now used in Forging trains between
Locust Point and Canton, to Bombay
Hook, the Underwater terminus of the
Baltimore e. 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 i'm.
provements are completed the Belt
tunnel, it is expected, will be finished
and ready for operation. This will
enable the Baltimore d Ohio Co. to dis
pense with its transfer barge in this
city, as all the traffic for the Philadel-
phia branch, which is now ferried from
Locust Point, will so through the
tunnel.
This proposed arrangement will, it is
said, also enable the b. g. o. Co., to re-
lieve its Philadelphia branch of all the
slow freights which are now required to
be run over it. This relief will be of
great advantage, as the b. & o. is con
stantly running heavily laden coal
trains over this branch 10 the interfer
ence of fast passenger and freight
service. 1t is this fast service which the
company wishes to improve by remoy-
ing all obstacles that stand in its way.
If this arrangement is carried to com
pletion, the coal trains would not be re-
quired to use the Baltimore & Ohio line
farther than Childs' station, where they
would be switched to the new branch
and run to Lambson's, thence by way
of the Baltimore 10 Delaware BAY TO
Bombay Hook, Here they would he
ferried across the Delaware bay and be
taken up on the Jersey Southern diyi-
sion 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 e. Ohio and the Jersey Central
road.