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Transportation Company - Eastern Shore - Railroad
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Company NameEastern Shore
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1981
Final Year of Operation2005
TerminationReorganized
Successor/ParentBay Coast (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Eastern Shore - Railroad



Company History: The ESHR launched in 1981 to take over the operation of a railroad and carfloat operation owned by the state. The previous operator was the Virginia & Maryland Railroad. It ran 64 miles from Pokomoke City, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia where railcars were loaded onto carfloats for a 26 mile trip across Chesapeake Bay to Little Creek, Virginia in the greater Norfolk area. This is a former Pennsylvania Railroad route. They had two carfloats with a total capacity of 40 cars. In addition to local customers, ESHR handled overhead traffic between Conrail in the north and Norfolk & Western, Southern, Seaboard Coast Line, and Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt in the south. The locomotive fleet consisted of a pair of rebuilt GP7’s and a pair of rebuilt GP9’s. The company was sold in 2005 and became the Bay Coast Railroad.
Successor/Parent History:
This line opened in 2005, replacing the Eastern Shore Railroad as operator of the county owned line on the Delmarva Peninsula from Pokomoke City, Maryland to their car float dock at Charles City, Virginia (64 miles.) The two car floats (one with 25 car capacity and one with 15) carried the trains across Chesapeake Bay to a Norfolk area dock, specifically at Little Creek, Virginia. The line was part of the PRR. Bay Coast interchanged with Norfolk Southern at both ends. The car float operation was one of two left in the United States at the time and this one had been in continuous operation since 1885. In 2018, traffic fell off considerably when their largest customer closed. Bay Coast Railroad shut down in May of 2018. Delmarva Central took over handling a few customers on the north end and Buckingham Branch Railroad took over the small amount of business on the Virginia side.
Brief History:
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Item created by: gdm on 2019-11-09 17:14:35. Last edited by Lethe on 2020-05-07 00:00:00

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