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Our history
The Early Days of Cape Charles, 1885
The railroad station in Cape Charles, Va. opened in October of 1884. The town wasn't officially incorporated until 1886.
The ESHR timetables
This is the original 1980s ESHR time tables.
Cassatt Tower , 1991
Cassatt tower named after the man who dreamed up the railroad on the eastern shore of va.
Starting from humble beginnings
The rail line from Pocomoke City to Cape Charles, Virginia was built by the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Company (NYP&N) in 1884
At Cape Charles it built a freight depot, terminal and harbor at the headland point at. By 1885 it had built a car float system, using barges to cross the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk.
The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad (PB&WR) which was owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), purchased the NYP&N in 1908 and in 1922 if became the "Norfolk Division" of the PRR. In 1929 the PRR built the little creek yard in the Little Creek area of Virginia Beach near the Norfolk/Virginia Beach line. It all became part of the Delmarva Division in 1930. In 1968 the PRR merged t
END OF aN era
Northampton and Accomack counties created the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission (A-NTDC) in 1976 and it arranged for the Virginia and Maryland Railroad to replace Conrail's operations in 1977.
That arrangement lasted until 1981, when the Canonie Atlantic Company purchased the track on the Eastern Shore and created the Eastern Shore Railroad (ESHR)
In 2005, after a number of years of declining traffic, the ANTDC decided to consider a new operator of their railroad. After reviewing all the proposals, Cassatt Management, LLC, Bay Coast Railroad began operating the same rail line and barge operation that Alexander Cassatt envisioned and built in 1884.