Delmarva Railroads
summer months. Now, of course, Rehoboth Beach is the liveliest beach resort in Delaware and the scene of many hotels, restaurants and amusement centers. The old railroad is long gone. The isolated Eastern Shore of Maryland was also the scene of many ambitious railroad projects. As early as 1835, the Eastern Shore Railroad was planned to connect Cecil County to the southern part of Somerset County with a divergent line to the Virginia border, a length of 85 miles. Financial problems led to the collapse of this grandiose project. In 1854, however, the Mary-
and Baltimore Railroad, the Junction and Breakwater line became completely independent in 1868 when it possessed 4 locomotives, 9 passenger cars, 2 baggage cars, 43 box cars and 6 stock cars. In the 1870s, the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad was organized to build a line from Lewes to Rehoboth Beach. The latter resort was the site for Methodist camp meetings, which were popular in this area. After 1878, worshipers from Wilmington, Philadelphia and points north could travel to campgrounds and tabernacle during the
The New Castle & Frenchtown Railroad Ticket Office, in Battery Park near Delaware Street in New Castle. The ticket office functioned as a train depot for New Castle when it was built in 1832. The little building is the second-oldest train station in the United States. 52