The Wicomico & Pocomoke Railroad was incorporated on February 15, 1848, and reauthorized in 1864 to connect Salisbury and Berlin, Maryland, a distance of 23 miles.

[5] The railroad started in Salisbury on the Wicomico river and then headed east crossing over the NYP&N and then on to Walston's switch, Parsonsburg, Pittsville, Hancock, Whaleyville, St. Martins and finally Berlin.

[3] In 1871, the Worcester Railroad built a branch from Berlin to Snow Hill, Maryland, on the Pocomoke river which opened in 1872.

[16] The Railroad's Chief Engineer, William H. Eichelberger estimates the construction cost for the road to be $727,000 ($2025=24,653,000) for the Claiborne-Salisbury segment, including a train ferry for Chesapeake service.

[12] The venture was not successful as on August 29, 1894, the B&ES railroad was liquidated in a judicial sale and reorganized as the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company.

[2] [9] The venture was not successful as on August 29, 1894, the B&ES railroad was liquidated in a judicial sale and the assets were sold to the re-organizers.

[2] The new owner, the Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic railroad (BC&A) was incorporated on August 30, 1894, with its principal office in Salisbury, Maryland.

Though Hawkins' various complaints were dismissed, the Public Service Commission did recommend changes such as ordering the BC&A to provide seating (with partitions) in nonsmoking as well as smoking cars to assure greater equality in the future.

It would be another four decades until another Marylander, Elmer Henderson, was successful in arguing to the United States Supreme Court in 1950 that "...segregative dining practices on the railroads could not be equal".

Henderson's court victory in integrating interstate travel contributed to Maryland's repeal of its railroad segregation laws in 1951.

So as Bogen writes, "generations of protesters and lawyers who resisted segregation ... in Maryland played their role in making it possible for a woman in Montgomery, Alabama ...(Rosa Parks)... to change the world."

The reorganized company, the Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic railroad (BC&A), was incorporated on August 30, 1894, with its principal office in Salisbury, Maryland.

[19] By 1921, the railroad had turned unprofitable due in part to private autos and trucks to the point where in March, 1922, it stopped making payments on its first mortgage.

In 1921, the Pennsylvania railroad had to provide financial assistance in order for BC&A to make payments due under its first mortgage.

By 1921, the railroad had turned unprofitable due in part to private autos and trucks to the point where in March 1922, it stopped making payments on its first mortgage.

[20] Into the 1930s the Baltimore and Eastern Railroad operated passenger service from Ocean City, to Easton stopping in Berlin, Hurlock and at Salisbury's Union Station among others.

[21] In 1932 cross peninsula travel was stopped when the Nanticoke trestle at Vienna was closed and then service to Ocean City ended the next year when the Sinepuxent Bay bridge was damaged in a storm.

It used a small diesel engine and cars that are now part of the Wilmington and Western tourist railroad in upper Delaware.

"[26] Shortly after its establishment, William Ashbie Hawkins represented several plaintiffs before the Public Service Commission protesting against the segregated conditions both in boats and trains under the Jim Crow law.

[26] Though Hawkins' various complaints were dismissed, the Public Service Commission did recommend changes such as ordering the BC&A to provide seating (with partitions) in nonsmoking as well as smoking cars to assure greater equality in the future.

[26] It would be another four decades until another Marylander, Elmer Henderson, was successful in arguing to the United States Supreme Court in 1950 that "...segregative dining practices on the railroads could not be equal".

Henderson's court victory in integrating interstate travel contributed to Maryland repeal of its railroad segregation laws in 1951.

[26] So as Bogen writes, "generations of protesters and lawyers who resisted segregation ... in Maryland played their role in making it possible for a woman in Montgomery, Alabama ...(Rosa Parks)... to change the world.

[18] W. H. Eichelberger recorded a Plat of Lots for Sale at Wrights Summit, Clinch Valley Railroad, Tazewell Co., Va. 19 x 15 in.