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The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) was an American railroad company that operated from 1836 until a merger in 1902. It built the first rail line south from Philadelphia. Founded in 1831 as the Philadelphia and Delaware County Rail-Road Company, the PW&B had within six years changed its name and merged with three other state-chartered railroads to create a single line between Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 1881, the PW&B came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). An 1895 history of the PRR had this to say about the significance of the PW&B: "An important constituent of a great North and South line of transportation, it challenges ocean competition and carries on its rails not only statesmen and tourists but a valuable interchange of products between different lines of latitude. As a military highway, it is of the greatest strategic importance to the national, industrial, and commercial capitals – Washington, Philadelphia and New York. It presents some of the very best transportation facilities to the commerce of the cities after which it is named and could not be obliterated from the railroad map of the United States without materially disturbing its harmony." In 1902, the PW&B was merged into the PRR's Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. The line is still in use as part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor; and the Maryland state Department of Transportation's "MARC" commuter passenger system to the northeast of Baltimore. Freight is handled by Norfolk Southern and formerly Conrail. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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