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21-700: The P&BC was chartered in Pennsylvania in 1854 and quickly absorbed the Baltimore & Philadelphia Railroad and its Maryland charter. Starting from a connection with the West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad (WC&P) at Wawa, Pennsylvania (formerly called Grubb's Bridge), the initial plan was to build southwest for 78 miles (126 km) to a junction with the Northern Central Railway , north of Baltimore . As built, however,

42-474: A crash course with a special train carrying dignitaries from New York to graduation exercises at Lincoln University. Hendrickson, 41, was a fireman aboard the special train on the day of his death. "A fireman's function was to shovel coal into the boiler to fuel the steam engine," Boyd said. At 12:45 p.m., Hendrickson's westbound train was coming out of a blind curve near the Elkview station at about 50 mph. On

63-481: A crash course with the passenger train. In Elk View, the engines came face to face at milepost 44 (the distance from Philadelphia).Just before impact, the crews aboard both trains opted to "join the birds,"railroad slang for abandoning a moving engine when a wreck is imminent. The weight of the New York train and its two Pullman cars slammed into the slower moving, lighter, freight engine, pushing it back 300 feet to

84-689: A deputy sheriff in Chester County and former Pennsylvania State Trooper who was born and raised on Sycamore Street in Clifton Heights. "He had the opportunity to jump from the train like everybody else did, but he stayed on. Nobody knows why." .... The wreck occurred on a single-track stretch of the Baltimore Central Railroad in Elk View when a damaged freight train on its way to a Philadelphia repair yard ended up on

105-465: Is also home to an apple orchard named "Colora Orchards" and to the school called West Nottingham Academy , from which former NBA player Josh Boone graduated in 2002. The school also educated famous contemporary artist Eric Fischl . Colora is the location of Colora Meetinghouse , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The West Nottingham Academy Historic District

126-834: Is put in Place in Penn Township by naming a road in the Ovations at Elkview retirement community, Hendrickson Lane. In 1961, the PRR abandoned the Octoraro Branch south of Colora, Maryland . Tourist operator Wawa & Concordville Railroad leased the line between Concordville and Wawa in 1967 and 1968. The PRR merged with the New York Central Railroad in 1968 to form the Penn Central (PC), which

147-703: The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) — extending its main line to West Philadelphia. In 1916, P&BC was formally purchased by PW&B's successor company, the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington . Subsequently, the line from Wawa south to Rowlandsville was called the Octoraro Branch. Passenger train service from Octoraro to Perryville over the C&;PD line ended in 1935, and during or shortly after World War II , passenger service

168-592: The Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad purchased the WC&;P, and then folded it into the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Railroad Company by the following year. The PRR eventually took control of all these earlier lines. The PRR merged with the New York Central Railroad in 1968 to form the Penn Central (PC), and was bankrupt by 1970. The West Chester line was sold to SEPTA 1978, though Conrail provided operations until 1983, when SEPTA assumed passenger operations until September 1986 when service

189-513: The Elkview station. All but Hendrickson would survive. .... In addition to the passengers from New York, Hendrickson was accompanied by trainmaster James Ruth, of Media, and an engineer by the name of William Miller. Among those on the freighter was fireman Walter Cully of the 200 block of Lloyd Street in Chester. According to a front page story in the June 4, 1902, Chester Times, Hendrickson's body

210-645: The Susquehanna to continue service toward Baltimore, the P&;BC simply leased the C&PD line for a few miles to Perryville , where trains could proceed south over the new bridge built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad (PW&B). In 1881, P&BC absorbed the West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad — both lines were controlled by the PW&;B, which was itself controlled by

231-714: The derelict Chadds Ford-Wawa section. West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad The West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad (WC&P) operated in the greater Philadelphia area from 1848 to 1881. It became the West Chester Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). It has been operated as the Media/Wawa Line on the SEPTA system since 2022. It was known as the Media-Elwyn Line from 1983-2022. The West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad

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252-641: The ex- Reading Wilmington & Northern branch through a connection at the latter place. In succession, the Delaware Valley Railway , the Brandywine Valley Railroad , and the Morristown & Erie Railway operated the line between 1994 and 2004. The East Penn Railroad bought the line from SEPTA in 2004, and currently operates between Nottingham, Pennsylvania and Chadds Ford Junction. SEPTA has retained ownership of

273-485: The following year, and the first train arrived there on December 22, 1860. P&BC reached Rising Sun, Maryland on Christmas morning, 1865. By December 1868, it reached 46 miles (74 km) and its southernmost point at Rowlandsville (4 miles (6.4 km) north of Port Deposit, along Octoraro Creek ), where it connected with the Columbia & Port Deposit Railroad (C&PD). Instead of building its own bridge over

294-532: The line would reach only from Wawa (where the WC&P line arrived from Philadelphia in 1856) to the northern bank of the Susquehanna River , in Cecil County, Maryland , near Port Deposit. P&BC construction began in 1855 at Concordville, Pennsylvania . The first section of the line, between Wawa Junction and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania , opened in 1859. Rails reached Oxford, Pennsylvania by

315-619: The other side of the bend, a partially disabled eastbound engine on its way to a repair yard in Philadelphia came into focus. Boyd said the crew of the eastbound train had received a pair of dispatches - the first telling them to wait on a sidetrack in Lincoln until the New York train passed. For some unknown reason, the dispatch was ignored or forgotten and the Philadelphia-bound engine left Lincoln prematurely, setting out on

336-638: Was bankrupt by 1970. Hurricane Agnes caused several washouts in 1972 and rendered the line unusable north of Brandywine Creek . Following the PC bankruptcy, ownership of the line went to Conrail , and then to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) , which leased the operable section to short-line freight railroad companies. The Octoraro Railway provided service between Oxford and Chadds Ford Junction from 1977 to 1994, while also operating

357-527: Was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1848, and the company was organized in 1851. Construction began in Philadelphia in 1852, and the road reached Kellyville (now Gladstone ) in November 1853, and Media by November 1854. In July 1855, at least one worker died in a construction accident and costs mounted due to construction of numerous bridges. Financial difficulties followed, and work

378-473: Was crushed in the wreckage. His remains were handled by undertaker E.F. White and buried at Chester Rural Cemetery. "The deceased was well-known in Chester and it has been but a few years since he was employed as a baker at the establishment of Fred Lang of Morton Street," the story read. Hendrickson was a member of Col. D.F. Houston Council, No. 739, Jr. Order of United American Mechanics. .... ©The Daily Times 2002 << Continued Honoring of John Hendrickson

399-542: Was cut back to Oxford before being ended entirely in April 1948. A Chester hero won't be forgotten .... Former Clifton Heights resident Jim Boyd has been researching the head-on crash along the Baltimore Central Railroad that killed John B. Hendrickson, who lived at Seventh and Jeffrey streets in the Lamokin Village section of the city. "He was a hero that saved a lot of lives by slowing the train down," said Boyd,

420-625: Was suspended until 1856, when the line opened to Grubb's Bridge (now Wawa ). The remaining line to West Chester was completed by November 1858. The WC&P was the second railroad to serve the borough of West Chester. The first was the West Chester Railroad , built in 1832 and running northeast to a PRR connection at Malvern . A junction was constructed at Wawa for the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad , which began construction in 1855 and opened its first section to Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania , in 1859. In May 1880,

441-429: Was suspended. Tourist operator West Chester Railroad resumed operations between West Chester and Glen Mills in 1997. Colora, Maryland Colora is an unincorporated community in western Cecil County , Maryland , United States, near Conowingo and Port Deposit . The ZIP Code of this area is 21917, and has some historic houses and some new structures, including several development neighborhoods. It

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