A general chronology of the pennsylvania railroad company
Dec. 1, 1871 PRR leases properties of "United Canal & Railroad Companies of New
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Dec. 1, 1871 PRR leases properties of "United Canal & Railroad Companies of New Jersey" and their controlled lines, retroactive to July 1, giving PRR direct access to New York; operations placed under General Superintendent of PRR (A.J. Cassatt); lease was dated June 13 but delayed by lawsuit; United Companies also assign leases of their leased line, but not West Jersey Railroad, to PRR effective June 30, 1871. (Digest, C&C) Dec. 21, 1871 United Railroads of New Jersey Grand Division created as operating organization for former United New Jersey lines excluding the West Jersey; under F. Wolcott Jackson, General Superintendent; railroads divided into New York and Amboy Divisions. (MB) Jan. 21, 1872 United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Company divided into New York Division (Jersey City-Philadelphia and branches) and Amboy Division (South Amboy-Camden and branches). Jan. 24, 1872 Camden & Atlantic Railroad acquires stock control of Coopers Point & Philadelphia Ferry Company operating ferries Atlantic and Arasapha between Coopers Point and Vine Street; operates without agreement. (AR, Val, C&C) June 1, 1872 Mays Landing & Egg Harbor City Railroad opens between Egg Harbor City and Mays Landing, N.J.; operated by Camden & Atlantic Railroad; revenue service begins June 3. (ARJ, AR) June 25, 1872 Camden & Atlantic Railroad begins operating first two Woodruff parlor cars during summer between Camden and Atlantic City; cars are assigned by Woodruff; number increased to six in 1873. ( ,tt) Oct. 21, 1872 Williamstown Railroad opens for regular service between Atco and Williamstown; connects at Atco with Camden & Atlantic and New Jersey Southern Railroads. (WdbryCnstn) Feb. 20, 1873 Delaware Shore Railroad incorporated in N.J. to build from Woodbury south along shore of Delaware River. (Val) May 5, 1873 West Jersey Railroad begins changing gauge from 4'-10" to 4'-9" to permit running through cars from PRR to Cape May. (ARJ) June 17, 1873 Camden, Gloucester & Mt. Ephraim Railway incorporated in New Jersey. (Val) July 2, 1873 Delaware Shore Railroad organized at Bridgeport. (Val) July 1873 Pullman completes four new deluxe parlor cars for West Jersey Railroad service between Camden and Cape May. July 14, 1873 Camden & Atlantic Railroad leases Mays Landing & Egg Harbor City Railroad. July 19, 1873 Through summer service inaugurated between Jersey City and Cape May, running in 6:10. (NYTrib, date of 1st tt) Summer 1873 New Camden Terminal opens at foot of Federal Street (?) Oct. 1873 Manchester & Camden Railroad buys Kaighns Point ferry at Camden. (WSG) Oct. 23, 1873 Andrew K. Hay elected Pres. of Camden & Atlantic Railroad, replacing Robert Frazer. Oct. 28, 1873 Camden, Gloucester & Mount Ephraim Railway begins construction; first narrow gauge railroad to be built under 1873 New Jersey General Railroad Law. (RRGaz) 1873 West Jersey Railroad opens new office building at Federal Street, Camden. (AR) 1873 Mays Landing & Egg Harbor City Railroad extended to river at Mays Landing. (AR) Feb. 14, 1874 Camden, Gloucester & Mount Ephraim Railway (narrow gauge) opens between Camden and Gloucester, N.J.; first narrow gauge railroad built under New Jersey General Railroad Law of 1873. (RRG, CmdnDem) May 18, 1874 West Jersey Railroad establishes fast express between Camden and Cape May. (USRR&MR) June 1874 Whitehorse station renamed Kirkwood on Camden & Atlantic; Stiles renamed Maple Shade on Amboy Division Aug. 1874 Camden & Atlantic Railroad has arranged to transfer passengers with Camden & Amboy line at crossing in Camden. (RRG) Nov. 1874 Delaware Shore Railroad begins construction. (Val) 1874 Camden & Atlantic Railroad opens new ferry house at Coopers Point, Camden. (AR) 1874 Camden & Atlantic Railroad completes replacement of old 62-pound Urail with 57-pound T-rail between Camden and Hammonton and between DaCosta and West Elwood. (AR) Feb. 9, 1875 George B. Roberts replaces T. Jones Yorke as Pres. of West Jersey Railroad; Board writes down stock of Ca Feb. 18, 1875 West Jersey Railroad reorganized as a de facto Grand Division of PRR; George B. Roberts, pres. and Frank Thomson general manager; actual org. manual issued later in year. Mar. 1, 1875 West Jersey Railroad becomes de facto division of PRR, with PRR officers above Superintendent William J. Sewell; A.J. Cassatt to VP, Frank Thomson to General Manager, etc. (MB)
Jersey Express Company; decline to cooperate with project for a railroad from the WJRR near Mantua via Mullica Hill to Woodstown. (MB) Mar. 18, 1875 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board orders six streetcars for use in Atlantic City during summer season. Mar. 22, 1875 John C. DaCosta (1801?-1875), former Pres. of Camden & Atlantic Railroad, dies at Camden. (RRG) Mar. 29, 1875 West Jersey Railroad General Manager Frank Thomson announces will close company shops at Camden and do work at PRR shops in West Philadelphia; order ASea Breeze Excursion House@ repaired for season. (MB) Apr. 15, 1875 Camden & Atlantic Board authorizes signing contract for halfinterest in connecting track to Camden & Amboy in Camden; investigation of Allison parlor cars as substitute for Woodruff=s; survey down beach to southern part of Absecon Island. (MB) Apr. 20, 1875 West Jersey Railroad Board approves contract with Woodruff Sleeping & Parlor Coach Company for parlor car service in 1875 season; renews contract with West Jersey Marl & Transportation Company; authorizes making arrangements with a steamboat line to operate to wharf at end of Cape Island Turnpike and to have horse car line built alongside turnpike; recommend subscription to a railroad to Woodstown if residents provide right of way. (MB)
Delaware Shore Railroad; appoints William Taylor as Secretary- Treasurer, replacing George J. Robbins, deceased. (MB)
Railroad and director of West Jersey Railroad, is found floating in the Delaware River; Markley was last seen leaving his home in Camden for Philadelphia the day before; is supposed to have committed suicide because of disease. (RRG)
shares of Cape May & Millville Railroad. (MB) Dec. 16, 1875 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board appoints committee on new station at South Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City. (MB) Dec. 31, 1875 West Jersey Railroad Board approves lease of ASea Breeze House@ to Doughty & Lamb and cancels rent due for 1875 season; orders construction of track pans so can operate non-stop to Cape May next season; orders two new locomotives and six passenger cars; new passenger depot on Ocean Drive at Cape May; recommends operating PRR steamboat Robert F. Stockton Philadelphia-New Castle-Cape May for 1876 season; J.N Du Barry elected a director, replacing S.M. Felton, resigned. (MB) 1876 West Jersey Railroad replaces 45-lb. rail with 60-lb. rail between Camden and Cape May; installs track pans at Millville (possibly early 1876 - yes); orders new anthracite-burning locomotives. 1875 Camden & Atlantic Railroad builds new ferry house at Vine Street, Philadelphia. (AR) 1875 Camden & Atlantic Railroad begins steel and steel-faced rail at certain points like crossing of PRR Amboy Division; also begins installing stone ballast. (AR) 1875 Because of depression, Camden & Atlantic Railroad does not operate Woodruff parlor car service. (AR- may be 1874) Jan. 11, 1876 Freak combination of tide and very high winds make Delaware River too low for PRR ferries to cross between Philadelphia and Camden. (GM)
contract. (RRG) Mar. 16, 1876 John Lucas elected Pres. of Camden & Atlantic Railroad, replacing William Massey, Pres. pro-tem, and Pres. A.K. Hay, resigned for health; Massey, Samuel Richards, Charles R. Colwell and W. Dwight Bell withdraw from Board and establish narrow gauge Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway; committee reports on negotiations with Atlantic City Passenger Railway; they are demanding $10,000, where C&A offers $5,000. (MB, ) Mar. 24, 1876 Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway incorporated in New Jersey by former Camden & Atlantic stockholders Edward V. Massey, Samuel Richards and Charles R. Colwell to build rival, narrow-gauge line between Camden and Atlantic City; Charles R. Colwell, Pres. (Val, C&C, Boyer) Mar. 31, 1876 West Jersey Railroad Board reports that Woodruff has declined same terms as last year and suggests fitting up own cars as parlor cars. (MB) Apr. 4, 1876 West Jersey Railroad runs first excursion of season to new resort of Sea Grove Association near Cape May; includes horse railroad to Cape May. (PubLdgr) Apr. 18, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes removing old Atlantic City depot and reopening Inlet wharf. (MB) May 6, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad inaugurates a new express leaving Philadelphia and 7:45 AM and Atlantic City at 5:30 PM for Centennial visitors wishing to make a day trip to the seashore. May 18, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes only one round trip to operate on Atlantic Avenue; others to terminate at main station in Atlantic City. (MB) June 1, 1876 West Jersey Railroad opens spur and new Cape May station at Grant Street & Beach Avenue near Sea Breeze Excursion House; this station is used during summer season and old station at Jackson Street, which is further from beach, is used only in winter. (AR) June 3, 1876 Middletown renamed Penton on Salem (N.J.) Branch. (Guide) June 10, 1876 Camden, Gloucester & Mt. Ephraim Railway (3'-0" gauge) opens between Gloucester and Mount Ephraim, N.J. (CmdnDem) June 10, 1876 Last run of Williamstown Railroad limited passenger service between Williamstown and Robanna; cut back to Williamstown. (Guide) June 14, 1876 PRR Board declines request of Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway, then under construction, to install third rail and permit its trains to run into PRR's Camden Terminal. June 22, 1876 PRR steamboat Richard Stockton begins summer service between Philadelphia, Cape May and Sea Grove, running each way on alternate days; Sea Grove is a new resort on the Bay reached by either boat or West Jersey Railroad; Alexander Whilldin is Pres. of Sea Grove Association. (PubLdgr)
Delaware Shore Railroad; refuses to take off Sunday Port Norris- Bridgeton-Elmer train connecting with Salem-Camden milk train; farmers demand a daily milk train to the city in summer. (MB) July 1, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad accepts new Atlantic City depot at South Carolina Avenue but not built as per contract; contractors forfeit $50 a day for being late; old station moved and converted to stable for horse cars. (MB, AR) July 4, 1876 Delaware River Steam Boat Company, controlled by Harlan & Hollingsworth, establishes a place called ASea Breeze@ at Fortescue Beach, 20 miles north of Cape May and runs J.A. Warner as excursion boat, competing with West Jersey Railroad. (PubLdgr, MB) July 20, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes new station at crossing of New Jersey Southern Railroad at Winslow Jct.; reports purchase of picnic ground for Sunday school excursions at Kirkwood, to be called ALake Grove@; authorizes renting new pavilion at Inlet at Atlantic City. (MB) July 24, 1876 Delaware Shore Railroad opens for revenue service between Woodbury and Penns Grove, N.J., with two round trips; intermediate stations at Thoroughfare, Paulsboro, Bridgeport, Pedricktown, Coopers, Prospect and 5 others. (WdbryCnst, Val, PubLdgr, RRG) Summer 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad does good business with visitors to Centennial, who are given promotional literature to induce them to take future vacations in Atlantic City. (AR) Aug. 17, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board orders establishing platform at East Hammonton. (MB) Sep. 17, 1876 Hurricane floods West Jersey Railroad tracks in meadows in South Camden; Delaware Shore Railroad damaged at Paulsboro, Repaupo and Bridgeport damaged and service interrupted; Beach Drive at Cape May badly damaged. (MB) Sep. 19, 1876 West Jersey service through South Camden restored. (MB) Sep. 21, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes purchasing land to enlarge terminal at Coopers Point, Camden. (MB) Dec. 21, 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes grading line to Great Egg Harbor Inlet at south end of Absecon Island; project is delayed by depression. (MB)
City. (AR) 1876 Camden & Atlantic Railroad begins laying 60-lb. steel rail. (AR) Jan. 4, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board resolves to operate all trains on Atlantic Avenue this summer season, as stopping only at South Carolina Avenue station has proved unsatisfactory. (MB) Jan. 18, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes applying for injunction to keep Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway from laying track on Arctic Avenue in Atlantic City; consider building an extension along the Delaware River in Camden from Coopers Point to the West Jersey Ferry at Market Street. (MB) Jan. 25, 1877 Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway files location of Pleasantville Branch. (NJCorp) Feb. 15, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes establishment of a station at the Camden & Amboy crossing in Camden; reports that work of extending line down the beach at Atlantic City has been stopped by Mayor. (MB) Apr. 1, 1877 Construction of Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway begins from both ends. Apr. 19, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes contracting for from four to six Woodruff parlor cars this season. (MB) Apr. 19, 1877 Philadelphia & Cape May Short Line Railway incorporated in N.J. by Charles K. Landis to build narrow-gauge line between Camden and Atlantic City via Vineland. (NJCorp) May 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad is now running trains to Atlantic City on Saturdays and Mondays non-stop in 1:30; to start daily train on June 1. (RRG) May 17, 1877 Collings Road station renamed Collingswood on Camden & Atlantic Railroad . (MB) May 25, 1877 West Jersey Railroad Board authorizes operation of Philadelphia- New Castle-Cape May steamboat this season. (MB) June 1, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad begins running weekend round trip between Camden and Atlantic City in 1:30. (RyW) June 21, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes double track on Atlantic Avenue between Pennsylvania Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. (MB) June 29, 1877 West Jersey Railroad Board authorizes chartering steamboat Keyport from Potomac Steamboat Company for Philadelphia-New Castle- Cape May service. (MB) July 7, 1877 Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway (3'-6" narrow gauge) opens with directors excursion between Camden and Atlantic City; Theodore Frelinghuysen Wurts (1844-1911) is consulting engineer; rails are not joined until 5:25 PM; ferry terminal is at foot of Bulson Street, Camden, where freight station is former Board of Finance Building from Centennial; other Centennial buildings used as stations or the Atlantic City Excursion House are the Centennial Commissioners’ Building, the La Fayette Restaurant, the Centennial Bank Building, and the car annex of Machinery Hall; Atlantic City station is a former Centennial building; steamboat Pilot Boy runs between Bulson Street and Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. (RyW,) July 11, 1877 Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway files location of Excursion House Branch from Thorofare to beach south of Florida Avenue and Arctic Avenue & Absecon Inlet Branch on Arctic Avenue and between Vermont & New Hampshire Avenues to Inlet, both in Atlantic City. (Rdg) July 21, 1877 Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway begins regular revenue service between Bulson Street, Camden, and Atlantic City; begins rate war with Camden & Atlantic Railroad; ferry runs from Bulson Street to Pier 8 above Walnut Street wharf; company builds excursion house on ocean between Florida & Texas Avenues served by rail spur; wrecked by storm before finished; stations are: Oakland, Linden, Dentdale, Magnolia, Somerville, Laurel, White Horse, Clementon, Albion, Tansboro, Williamstown Jct., Cedar Brook, Blue Anchor, Winslow, Hammonton, Da Costa, Elwood, Egg Harbor, Cologne, Pomona, Pleasantville and Atlantic City; run three round trips, fastest in 2:45 vs. 1:30 on Camden & Atlantic Railroad . (RRG, HistAtCo) July 22, 1877 Delaware Shore Railroad begins Sunday service between Woodbury and Penns Grove, N.J. July 25, 1877 Three cars of Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway excursion train derail near Tansboro; brakeman killed and 10 passengers injured; caused by shoddy construction of road, which deters people from using it. (RRG, Boyer) Aug. 22, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad Board authorizes cutting fares to $1.50 or $2.00 excursion to equal Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway. (MB, RRG) Aug. 31, 1877 West Jersey Railroad Board authorizes seeking reduction of rent on R.D. Wood & Co. Branch to Maurice River at Millville. (MB) Sep. 2, 1877 Camden & Atlantic Railroad and Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway begin offering 50-cent excursion tickets to Atlantic City; 104 carloads (8,000 people) carried at this fare on Camden & Atlantic and Directory: groups groups -> What is ascaa? groups -> Tiger Leaps Progress Update from Tenafly High School March 28, 2012 English groups -> Personal Data: Name : Prasanna. 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