Baltimore & Susquehanna

Company History: The B&S was chartered in 1828 with the goal of building a railroad from Baltimore to a viable port on the Susquehanna River. Unfortunately, that port would be in York, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania interests were none to keen to see their products exported through Baltimore instead of through the port in Philadelphia and maneuvered to deny the B&S a charter in Pennsylvania. B&S built as far as Owings Mills before turning toward the Monocacy River instead. In 1832, Pennsylvania relented and chartered the York & Maryland Line to meet the B&S at the state line. The combined line from Baltimore to York was completed in 1838. This line includes the Howard Tunnel near Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania which is the oldest (some say second oldest) railroad tunnel in America still in use (today by a tourist line.) In 1853, the Baltimore & Susquehanna and their related companies ran into financial trouble and in December of 1854 the B&S was merged with York & Maryland Line, York & Cumberland, and Susquehanna Railroad to form the Northern Central Railway.

Successor/Parent History: The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad connecting Baltimore, Maryland with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858, the line came under the control of the later Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861, when the PRR acquired a controlling interest in the Northern Central's stock to compete with the rival Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). For eleven decades the Northern Central operated as a subsidiary of the PRR until much of its Maryland trackage was washed out by Hurricane Agnes in 1972; after which most of its operations ceased as the Penn Central declined to repair sections. It is now a fallen flag railway, having come under the control of the later Penn Central (merger of the PRR and the New York Central), Conrail, and then broken apart and disestablished. The southern part in Pennsylvania is now the York County Heritage Rail Trail which connects to a similar hike/bike trail in Northern Maryland down to Baltimore, named the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail. Only the trackage around Baltimore remains in rail service.

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