[2] Railroad trackage is used by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) to access the Philadelphia waterfront.

[1] North of South Street, CSAO, which serves as a switching company for CSX and NS, has exclusive use of the line.

[3] There is currently little activity on PBL trackage north of the Columbus Boulevard ports on the Delaware River near Southwark; however, projects are being proposed and considered that will, if put through and take action on, significantly increase the line's freight traffic.

From September 5, 1982 to December 17, 1995, a heritage trolley using historic cars operated along the tracks in the Penn's Landing area between the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and Pier 51.

STB ultimately denied the petition, finding that PBL had neither constructed nor operated a rail line on the property being used by SugarHouse and that it had presented no evidence that it had failed to support its argument "that a right-of-way granted by a municipality, but never exercised or developed or otherwise perfected under the Transportation Act of 1920 .