[1] 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.

[6][7] 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, a deputy sheriff in Chester County and former Pennsylvania State Trooper who was born and raised on Sycamore Street in Clifton Heights.

For some unknown reason, the dispatch was ignored or forgotten and the Philadelphia-bound engine left Lincoln prematurely, setting out on a crash course with the passenger train.

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 the Elkview station.

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.

"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.

[3] 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 the ex-Reading Wilmington & Northern branch through a connection at the latter place.

The East Penn Railroad bought the line from SEPTA in 2004, and currently operates between Nottingham, Pennsylvania and Chadds Ford Junction.