A general chronology of the pennsylvania railroad company


Apr. 30, 1900 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad acquires property and franchises of



Download 319.69 Kb.
Page4/6
Date01.02.2018
Size319.69 Kb.
#37610
1   2   3   4   5   6

Apr. 30, 1900 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad acquires property and franchises of

Delaware River Railroad under agreement of Apr. 27, 1900. (Val)
July 4, 1900 Atlantic City Railroad Class P-3a 4-4-2 sets new Camden-Atlantic City

speed record of average 75.2 MPH.
1900 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad acquires Delaware River Railroad

(Woodbury-Penns Grove).
June 12, 1901 Automatic pneumatic block signal system placed in service between

Camden and Atlantic City via Winslow Jct. on the C&A
June 14, 1901 Atlantic City Railroad absorbs Camden County Railroad, Ocean City

Railroad, and Seacoast Railroad under agreement of May 24, 1901. (Val)
June 23, 1901 New Camden Terminal and ferry house opens; train shed 570' x 252' with 11 tracks; uses components from 1881 Broad Street Station sheds. (AR

has 500 x 252 with 12 tracks and one more under overhang); old ferry

houses at Federal and Market Streets abandoned. (AR)
Oct. 29, 1901 Mount Holly power plant destroyed by fire, ending electric service

between East Burlington and Mount Holly.
Dec. 27, 1901 Gen. William Joyce Sewell (1835-1901), Pres. of WJ&S and Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company and PRR's voice in the U.S. Senate, dies at

Camden. (AR, CongBio)
1901 WJ&S buys new tugboat for Maurice River service and retires old one.

(AR)
Apr. 1902 PRR orders demolition of Mount Holly power house and ends experiment

of electric trolley operation between Burlington and Mount Holly. (NYT)
May 10, 1902 PRR agrees with City of Camden to elevate Amboy Division west of

Cooper Creek.
June 23, 1902 New Camden Terminal station opens. (C&C - verify)
1902 Automatic block signals placed in service between Frankford Jct. and

West Haddonfield on Delair Bridge line.


May 24, 1903 PRR inaugurates 90-minute service between Philadelphia and Cape May.
June 1, 1903 Winslow & Cape May RPO established on Atlantic City Railroad. (Kay)
Sep. 12, 1903 Storm destroys trestle leading to Brigantine Island on Philadelphia &

Brigantine Railroad. (Coxey)
Oct. 9, 1903 Philadelphia & Brigantine Railroad abandons all service. (Coxey)
May 30, 1904 (PRR imports experimental deGlehn compound 4-4-2 from France, DeGlehn compound locomotive No. ___ tested between Camden and

Atlantic City over West Jersey & Seashore Railroad; is underpowered

compared with PRR locomotives; morning test with 11 cars is unable to

make up time; test with 5 cars in afternoon is on time. (NYT)
Nov. 1904 Baldwin-Westinghouse builds an electric freight lcomotive for Reading

for use between Cape May and Sewells Point. (StRyJrnl)
1904 Camden, N.J., freight yard rearranged. (AR)
1904 Atlantic City Railroad stops running all express trains on Baltic Acenue

Branch, as main cottage district has shifted to south end of island; a limited number of trains operate over Baltic Avenue Branch until 1926. (RDG)
July 1, 1905 "Seashore House" opens as Philadelphia PRR YMCA vacation facility on Bay at Ocean City, N.J. (Wilson)
Dec. 15, 1905 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad grants Atlantic City & Shore Railroad from point near MEADOWS Tower west of Atlantic City via Pleasantville

to Somers Point for electric service. (Val)
1905 WJ&S grants trackage rights to Atlantic City & Shore __ between

Meadows Tower and Somers Point via Pleasantville and Atlantic City to

Longport with use of steam launches. (AR)
1905 WJ&S builds new launch for Ocean City-Longport service. (AR)
1905 Atlantic City Railroad opens branch from Harbor Branch Jct. to fishing

docks at Schellenger's Landing at Cape May, N.J. (C&C calls Cape May

Real Estate Branch, 1.05 miles).
Jan. 1906 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad begins work on Westville Cutoff

between West Haddonfield and Westville, planning to make a complete

belt line from the Delair Bridge around Camden to the old West Jersey

main line. (Val)
Jan. 26, 1906 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad obtains trackage rights over Atlantic

City Railroad between Winslow Jct. and Woodbine Jct., providing a more

direct route to resorts below Atlantic City than original West Jersey

Railroad route via Millville. (Val)
May 1906 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad opens extension from Penns Grove to

Carney's Point, N.J., to reach Du Pont explosives and chemical plant; Du

Pont favors shipment by Reading car floats between Deepwater and

Pigeon Point, Del. (Val)
June 12, 1906 First PRR steel coach No. 1651 runs from Altoona to Atlantic City with delegates to Master Car Builders' convention; is 74'-6", 110,000 lbs.; 6-

wheel trucks. (CCHS)
June 30, 1906 Through service between Philadelphia and Cape May via Delair Bridge begins; express trains to Ocean City, Wildwood, and Cape May begin

running via trackage rights over Reading between Winslow Jct. and

Woodbine Jct. to clear old WJ&S route for electric trains (or 6/26??);

connecting tracks built at Woodbine Jct. (Mount Pleasant) and Winslow

Jct. ( , Val)
June 30, 1906 Anglesea Jct., N.J., renamed Wildwood Jct. on WJ&S.
July 25, 1906 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad obtains trackage rights over Atlantic City & Ocean City Railroad between Somers Point and Ocean City; West

Jersey & Seashore grants Atlanitc City & Shore Railroad trackage rights

into 8th Street Station at Ocean City. (Val)

Aug. 24, 1906 Steam passenger service makes last run between Pleasantville and Somers Point, N.J. because of trolley competition.
Aug. 25, 1906 Atlantic City & Shore Railroad begins trolley operation over West Jersey & Seashore tracks between the Thorofare and Somers Point via

Pleasantville; has own tracks on city streets between the Thorofare and

Virginia Avenue and Boardwalk.
Sep. 18, 1906 Electrified service (600 volt, DC) begins between Camden and Altlantic City via Newfield (and Pleasantville to Somers Point?) (elsewhere 8/25 -

AR has 9/18); includes automatic block signals between Camden and

Newfield; electrification designed by George Gibbs of Westinghouse.
Oct. 14, 1906 Electrified service begins between Newfield and Millville.
Oct. 15, 1906 Philadelphia & Bridgeton RPO cut to Glassboro & Bridgeton RPO. (Kay)

Oct. 15, 1906 Philadelphia & Salem RPO cut to Woodbury & Salem RPO; Philadelphia & Cape May RPO split into Philadelphia & Millville RPO and Millville & Cape May RPO; Philadelphia & Bridgeton RPO cut to Glassboro &

Bridgeton RPO. (Kay)
Oct. 28, 1906 Three-car electric train No. 1065 from Camden to Atlantic City derails on Thorofare Bridge just west of Atlantic City and falls into water at 2:25

PM; first two cars instantly submerged; third is left hanging partially

submerged from abutment; 57 killed; coroners jury blames improper

locking of draw span rails. (NYT, Shaw)
1906 Separate electric line opens from new platforms on south side of Camden

Terminal to 2nd Street. (Val - has 12/1906)
Mar. 1907 WJ&S withdraws large number of Atlantic City trains, both steam and

electric. (may be late Feb.). (RRG)
Apr. 17, 1907 Atlantic City & Shore Railroad opens electric service between Somers

Point and 8th Street, Ocean City. (or 7/4/07?? - Gladulich); West Jersey

& Seashore steam launch service between Somers Point and Ocean City

discontinued (effective with summer sched?? - i.e. last run would have

been 9/1906)
June 15, 1907 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad leases operation of Atlantic City-

Longport trolley line to Atlantic City & Shore Railroad. (or 7/16?? -

includes operation of Longport-Ocean City launches)
June 28, 1907 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad grants trackage rights to Atlantic City & Shore Railroad over Atlantic City-Longport Branch and use of boat

line between Longport and Ocean City, effective July 15. (Val)
Oct. 9, 1907 PRR Board approves plan for new yard between Pavonia and Fish House (Pavonia Yard) on Amboy Division. (MB)
Nov. 12, 1907 Tests of PRR experimental electric locomotives and New Haven Class EP-1 electric locomotive to ascertain lateral stress on rails begin on a sevenmile

tangent between Clayton and Franklinville, N.J., on WJ&S; test

track is fitted with evenly spaced hard Brinnell balls which are driven

into soft steel plates by lateral forces transmitted from locomotive to

track; PRR No. 10003 considered most successful and becomes prototype

for Class DD1 of 1909; No. 10001 and No. 10002, without pilot truck, have

too much lateral impact; also test Class D16b and E2 steam locomotives

for comparison. ( , NYT, Condit)
Nov. 16, 1907 BLW-Westinghouse electric locomotive No. 10003 makes five test runs at Franklinville up to 80 MPH. (NYT)

Dec. 5, 1907 Steam locomotive hits 99 MPH in Franklinville Trials. (NYT)
Dec. 11, 1907 New Haven electric locomotive lately on display at Jamestown Exposition sets U.S. speed record for an electric locomotive of 92 MPH at

Franklinville Trials. (NYT)
Dec. 27, 1907 Pemberton local rear-ends Atlantic City express waiting to enter Camden Terminal in dense fog at 8:30 AM; local telescoped and boiler burst,

flooding wreckage with steam; 4 killed, 21 injured. (NYT)
1907 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad opens Van Hook Street Cutoff in

Camden connecting with ex-Camden & Atlantic main line and bypassing

street running in 7th Street. (Val)
1907 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad opens extension from Holly Beach to

Wildwood Crest (1.12 miles). (Val - RRG says 0.56 mi.)
May 1908 PRR receives first all-steel coach from Pressed Steel Car Company; taken

from Pittsburgh to Altoona for display; will display at annual MCB

convention in Atlantic City in June. (WEJ)
June 1, 1908 WJ&S raises fares; Philadelphia-Atlantic city round trip by 25 cents.

(RRG)
July 2, 1908 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad grants trackage rights to Atlantic City & Shore Railroad over Atlantic Avenue track in Atlantic City between

South Carolina & Virginia Avenues. (Val)
Aug. 14, 1908 PRR sends 52 cars of excursionists from Pittsburgh to Atlantic City.

(RRAgeGaz)
Oct. 1, 1908 PRR sells West Jersey Express Company to Adams Express Company.
Dec. 1908 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad "temporarily" abandons work on

Westville Cutoff around Camden, which is never completed. (Val)
1908 Atlantic City Railroad opens between 4th Street and North Street (Ocean

City Gardens) in Ocean City, N.J.
Summer 1909 Sloop Pennsy added to PRR YMCA summer vacation facilities at Ocean City. (Wilson)
May 27, 1910 Through summer-only service begins between Camden and Ocean

City via Somers Point; in later years ran Sundays-only through 1930.

June 14, 1910 Wildwood & Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad incorporated in

New Jersey to build branch to Wildwood in interest of Reading.
1910 West Jersey & Seashore track elevation opens between Wright

Avenue and Spruce Street at Camden.
July 3, 1911 Brakeman's error switches Atco-Camden local No. 218 across main

line at Lucaston, N.J., directly into path of Philadelphia-Atlantic

City Express No. 185, which cuts through it at top speed; two killed

and 17 injured. (NYT)
Nov. 1911 New WJ&S ferry house opens at Vine Street, Philadelphia. (Val)
1911 WJ&S extends Stone Harbor Branch 0.62 mi. to 107th Street. (AR)
1911 New station built at Pleasantville, N.J. on WJ&S. (AR)
Jan. 1, 1912 Camden Terminal Division created from portion of former Amboy Division lying south of Fish House.
May 29, 1912 Stone Harbor Railroad incorporated in New Jersey in interest of

South Jersey Realty Company to build from Cape May Court

House to Stone Harbor in competition with WJ&S line. (Val, Cook)
May 29, 1912 Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad incorporated in New Jersey in

interest of South Jersey Realty Company to build short connecting

link between Stone Harbor Railroad and Atlantic City Railroad at

Cape May Court House. (Val, Cook)
June 11, 1912 Stone Harbor Railroad and Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad

organized. (Val)
June 30, 1912 Silver spike ceremony and excursion from Camden held to mark

opening of Stone Harbor Railroad and Stone Harbor Terminal

Railroad between Cape May Court House on Atlantic City

Railroad and 2nd Avenue in Stone Harbor, N.J.; Stone Harbor

Railroad is operated by Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad by lease

through Oct. 1912; for revenue service, line is later strung with

trolley wire; experiments using an electric mine locomotive fail,

and a surplus Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company trolley is

substituted. (Val, Cook)
Dec. 12, 1912 Wildwood & Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad opens between

Wildwood Jct. on Atlantic City Railroad and Wildwood, N.J.
1912 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad extends branch at Stone Harbor by 0.88 mile. (Val)
Apr. 1913 WJ&S stockholders vote to lease line to PRR at 6%; lease is

subsequently blocked by New Jersey PUC and is not executed until

1930 (?). (NYT)
Spring 1913 PRR conducts tests of high speed air brakes with pneumatic or

electrical controls on southbound track of Atlantic City Division of

WJ&S; test train, consisting of a K2 Pacific and 12 P70 coaches

makes a total of 691 runs; train, weighing 1,000 tons, can be

stopped in 1,000 feet or about its own length, from 60 MPH.

(RyAge)
July 1, 1913 PRR leases West Jersey & Seashore Railroad; creates West Jersey

Division with headquarters at Camden.
Jan. 29, 1914 City of Camden adopts resolution calling for PRR to resume work

of grade crossing elimination on Atlantic City Division from

Spruce Street to the old Harleigh station and at White Horse Pike

and Ferry Avenue.
May 20, 1914 Gloucester Branch of WJ&S (0.66 mi.) opens Gloucester to South

Gloucester N.J. (AR)
1914 WJ&S sells ferry Annex 5 and replaces with Columbia purchased

from Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company; has a total of 3

ferries, plus 5 launches leased to Atlantic City & Shore since __.

(AR)

Jan. 3, 1915 Kaighn's Point (Camden) Terminal of Atlantic City Railroad destroyed by fire.
Jan. 20, 1915 In hearing before New Jersey PUC, counsel for Jersey Commuters' Association argues that PRR has has raised fares unjustly to cover losses of expensive projects like the Westville Cutoff and through collusive awards of contracts to steel companies. (NYT)
Apr. 22, 1915 New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals rules that right of PUC to bar PRR's lease of WJ&S. (NYT)
Aug. 12, 1915 United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Company grants West Jersey & Seashore Railroad trackage rights between Camden Terminal and Pavonia Yard retroactive to June 1, 1915; West Jersey & Seashore grants PRR trackage rights over electric line at Camden Terminal. (Val)

Jan. 6, 1916 Paulsboro Branch of WJ&S (1.01 mi.) opens from Paulsboro to factory of I.P. Thomas & Son Company. (AR)
May 1, 1916 Fish House-Morris ceded from Trenton Division to Camden Terminal Division; Delair-West Haddonfield ceded from Amboy (?) Division to WJ&S. (MB, AR)

1916 Track elevation opens between Spruce Street and Everett Street, Camden, on Atlantic City line. (AR)

1916 WJ&S establishes telephone dispatching between Camden and Cape May and on Maurice River, Ocean City, Stone Harbor and Wildwood Branches. (AR)
May 4, 1917 Millville & Watsontown RPO discontinued. (Kay)?
Sep. 1917 Stone Harbor Railroad discontinues service with end of 1917 season.
Sep. 17, 1917 Newfield & Atlantic City RPO discontinued. (Kay)
Oct. 27, 1917 Cape May, Delaware Bay & Sewells Point Railroad abandoned. (ElctRyJrnl)
Oct. 1918 Operation of Stone Harbor Railroad suspended for winter; not resumed until May 1921. (Val)
1918 Petty's Island Branch opens at Camden, N.J. (MB)
1918 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad abandons outermost 0.45 mile of branch at Stone Harbor.
Feb. 7, 1919 Woodbury & Salem RPO discontinued. (Kay)
Apr. 7, 1920 West Jersey & Seashore Board approves designation as Atlantic Division. (ATO)
Oct. 26, 1920 Woodbury & Salem RPO extended to Philadelphia & Salem RPO. (Kay)
Nov. 1, 1920 PRR cancels interchangeable tickets with Reading for points between Philadelphia and Pottsville and between WJ&S and Atlantic City Railroad to all seashore points; had been implemented by USRA. (ATO)
1920 WJ&S disposes of 5 launches used in former Longport-Ocean City service. (AR)
May 1921 Stone Harbor Railroad resumes operation between Cape May Court House and Stone Harbor after being closed by USRA since Oct. 1918; Stone Harbor Railroad also operated Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad, which owns short track connecting with Atlantic City Railroad at Cape May Court House. (Val)
June 13, 1921 Glassboro & Bridgeton RPO extended to Philadelphia & Bridgeton RPO. (Kay)
Sep. 10, 1921 Property of Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad deeded to Stone Harbor Railroad after foreclosure sale. (Val)
Oct. 13, 1921 PRR Board authorizes purchase of two steel ferries for Philadelphia-Camden service and construction of an additional slip on each side of Delaware River. (MB)
1921 New freight yard built between Pavonia and Fish House, N.J. (AR?)

Jan. 10, 1922 ICC orders 49 railroads to each equip one division with automatic stop or speed control systems; PRR lines are Philadelphia-Pittsburgh, Philadelphia-Atlantic City, and Pittsburgh-Indianapolis. (order made public 1/11 - NYT)

Jan. 28, 1922 Blizzard strikes Virginia and Washington, D.C., reaching almost to the latitude of New York City before moving out to sea; Rail travel

south of Philadelphia crippled and through trains to South annulled; at 6:00 PM, PRR attempts to run a train from New York to Washington, but it is blocked south of Philadelphia; Southern Railway train leaves Penn Station at 12:#0 AM of Jan. 29. (NYT)
Jan. 29, 1922 PRR restores Northeast Corridor service; Atlantic City still cut off, and tow WJ&S electric trains stranded at Clayton. (NYT)
Feb. 1, 1922 PRR announces that it will sell advertising space in trains and stations, reversing a long-time policy; to be limited at first to MU cars out of Philadelphia and Camden and Camden and Jersey City ferryboats. (NYT)
Mar. 8, 1922 PRR Board authorizes extension of Wildwood Branch from Wildwood Crest to Cold Spring Inlet.
Apr. 30, 1922 Atlantic City Railroad inaugurates The Boardwalk Flyer, The Rocket, The Quaker City, and The William Penn between Camden and Atlantic City. (tt)
June 5, 1922 Atlantic City Railroad inaugurates The Baltic, a summer-only train between Camden and the Baltic Avenue Branch in Atlantic City; becomes sole train to serve this branch. (tt)
June 19, 1922 Atlantic City Railroad inaugurates The Ocean City Special, a summer-only commuter train between Ocean City and Camden, making the run to Philadelphia in 1:25. (tt)
July 1, 1922 Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company cuts vehicular rates. (AR)
July 2, 1922 Atlantic City Railroad's late night Camden-Atlantic City express No. 33 derails at 70 MPH at Winslow Jct., N.J., when inadvertently switched to the curving Cape May Branch track; with poor visibility in storm, towerman had mistaken a train of coaches being deadheaded to Atlantic City for July 4 traffic for No. 33, which was late; 7 killed, 89 injured. (MacDonald)
1922 Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company receives Haddonfield and Millville. (AR)
June 17, 1923 PRR inaugurates Chicago-Atlantic City drawing room/compartment sleepers on The Pennsylvania Limited.
Sep. 3, 1923 Atlantic City experiences record Labor Day weekend crowds; PRR carries 200,000 and Reading 165,000; returning, PRR trains leave every 15 minutes and Reading every 20 minutes. (NYT)
Sep. 1923 PRR wins grand prize for its two floats in the Atlantic City National Beauty Tournament Parade (later the Miss America Pageant); the first features a map of the PRR system showing all lines leading to Atlantic City with a model railroad controlled by automatic signals around the base; the second features an E6 and P70 coach emerging from a rotating world globe. (Guide)
Mar. 1, 1924 Last run of passenger train between East Burlington and Mount Holly, N.J. (?)
May 14, 1924 Atlantic City Railroad opens new modern passenger terminal at Kaighn's Point, Camden, replacing old facility burned in 1915. (Coxey)
June 1924 PRR concludes experiment in radio dispatching with members of the American Radio Relay League; uses amateur stations at Camden, Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis to send messages to other stations at general divisional and divisional headquarters. (NYT)
Oct. 21, 1924 Gasoline rail car replaces steam train on Stone Harbor Branch during Oct.-June off-season; same car operates Toms River-Sea Girt (?) June-Sep. (CMP)
Nov. 5, 1924 Millville & Cape May RPO rerouted to Millville & Wildwood RPO. (Kay)
1924 West Jersey & Seashore Railroad discontinues tugboat ferry across Maurice River between Maurice River and Bivalve. (C&C - date dropped from Record of Trans. Lines - prob. dropped from Guide earlier - 1924 is probably date tugs dropped completely)

Download 319.69 Kb.

Share with your friends:
1   2   3   4   5   6



The database is protected by copyright ©ininet.org 2024
send message
    Main page
modern form