Delaware, Maryland
& Virginia Railway Company 1883 - 1956
May 31, 1883 - Junction &
Breakwater, Breakwater & Frankford and Worcester Railroads merged to form
Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad under agreement of May 8, 1883, and
acts of Del. (Mar. 20, 1877), Virginia (Apr. 2, 1877) and Maryland (May 3,
1882); controlled by Old Dominion Steamship Company; N. L. McCready, Pres.
(Val, Digest, C&C)
July 17, 1883 - Delaware,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad Executive Committee orders surveys for an enlarged
terminal at Lewes, Del.; includes new spur to the iron government pier with two
new piers between it and the existing DM&V pier; the iron pier is to be
used for merchandise and the old wooden DM&V pier for lumber, wood and
coal. (MB)
1883 - Delaware, Maryland &
Virginia Railroad completes the replacement of iron rails with steel on the old
Junction & Breakwater Railroad. (MB)
March 18, 1891 - PW&B agrees
to assume State of Delaware mortgage on Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad system of $600,000. (RyW)
May 8, 1891 - Delaware law
requires PW&B to advance money to Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad to guarantee interest on mortgages to state made by Frankford &
Breakwater Railroad and Junction & Breakwater Railroad; as a result, PW&B
becomes majority stockholder of DM&V. (AR)
1893 - Delaware, Maryland &
Virginia Railroad replaces the steamboat Widgeon on the Franklin
City-Chincoteague ferry with the Little Agnes for passengers and the
Chincoteague for freight. (Keystone)
February 1, 1894 - PW&B sells
steamboat Chincoteague to Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad; used in
Franklin City-Chincoteague service. (MB)
January 23, 1895 - Delaware,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad files suit in Delaware Court of Chancery
against the U.S. Government’s appropriation of land for a canal between
Delaware Bay and Assawoman Bay inland of Rehoboth Beach, part of the
Intracoastal Waterway. (MB)
November 12, 1897 - Queen Anne's
Railroad contracts with PRR for a connection at Lewes, Del., and for the use of
the Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railway line between Lewes and Rehoboth.
(MB - DM&V MB implies trackage rights not granted, only a connection)
April 14, 1898 - Delaware,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad begins 1.5-mile extension to government iron
pier at Lewes, Del. (RRGaz)
June 22, 1899 - Henry F. Kenney
elected Pres. of Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad, replacing Frank
Thomson, deceased. (MB)
October 7, 1899 - Delaware,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad grants Queen Anne’s Railroad trackage rights
between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach with permission to run only three round trips
of passenger trains. (MB)
May 31, 1905 - Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad
Board authorizes a new coal wharf at Georgetown, Del., and new combined
stations at Stockley and Berlin. (MB)
January 1, 1906 - Maryland,
Delaware & Virginia Railway obtains trackage rights over Delaware, Maryland
& Virginia Railroad between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. (MB, Val)
1914 - Maryland, Delaware &
Virginia Railway builds new connection to Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Rail__ at Lewes, Del., rather than build government-mandated swing draw over
intracoastal waterway. (AR)
July 14, 1930 - Group of 75 farmers from Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia arrive at Penn Station for two-day tour of markets and food
terminals in New York. (NYT)
September 27, 1933 - PRR Board authorizes $516,207 for air
conditioning cars for east-west trains; extending Platform No. 6 at Penn
Station for 19-car trains; orders the Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad to purchase the Maryland & Delaware Seacoast Railroad between
Ellendale and Milton (8.5 miles) for $10,000 and rescinds authorization for the
purchase of Maryland & Delaware Seacoast Railroad shares. (MB)
August 16, 1934 - ICC authorizes Maryland & Delaware
Seacoast Railroad to abandon its entire line between West Denton and Lewes and
sell 1.05 miles between Denton and West Denton to the Baltimore & Eastern
Railroad and the section between Ellendale and Milton to the Delaware, Maryland
& Virginia Railroad. (ICC, BdF)
January 8, 1935 - Bankrupt Maryland & Delaware Seacoast
Railroad sells former Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railway line between
West Denton (Denton Jct.) and Denton, Md., (1.05 miles) to the Baltimore &
Eastern Railroad and the portion between Ellendale and Milton, Del., to
Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad; Milton-Lewes and
Ellendale-Greenwood portions abandoned; Denton-Greenwood remains in service
until B&E can rebuild the Choptank River bridge and reestablish connection
at West Denton. (C&C, BdF)
October 28, 1939 - Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad agrees with Rehoboth, Del., to remove the track in Rehoboth Avenue
from the west side of the canal to the Boardwalk and to build a new freight
station west of the canal; track was no longer needed because of the discontinuance
of passenger service. (MB)
June 17, 1955 - Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad
Board approves applying to ICC to abandon line from the Maryland state line to
Franklin City, Va., 1.03 miles. (MB)
June 22, 1955 - PRR Board agrees to foreclose the Delaware,
Maryland & Virginia Railroad and transfer its property to the PB&W.
(MB)
January 31, 1956 - Elmira & Lake Ontario Railroad
Company merged into Northern Central Railway Company; Delaware, Maryland &
Virginia Railroad merged into PB&W under agreement of September 28, 1955.
(MB)
February 29, 1956 - PB&W Board authorizes applying to
abandon 2.33 miles of the Newark & Delaware City Branch between Reybold and
Delaware City, and 1.03 miles of the former Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad between the Maryland state line and Franklin City, Va. (MB)
October 8, 1956 - PB&W Board authorizes the abandonment
of the former Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad from Snow Hill, Md.,
to the Virginia state line; approve the sale of the stock of the Terre Haute
& Peoria Railroad to the PRR. (MB)
Source: "PRR Chronology," by Christopher T. Baer, PRR Technical & Historical Society.
"Rails Along the Chesapeake," John C. Hayman, Marvadel Publishers, 1979.
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