Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) running trains of Budd RDC railcars operating from a small terminal at Lindenwold PATCO station and Atlantic City. While the P-RSL did not enter bankruptcy, its owners, the Penn Central, (successor to the Pennsylvania) and the Reading, did. As a result, Conrail took over the P-RSL on April 1, 1976. Effective May 4, 1896, the Pennsylvania Railroad consolidated all of its railroads and several smaller properties in Southern New Jersey into the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. The WJ&S had lines coming from its Federal Street Terminal in Camden. The "Main Line"
B&O Railroad Bridge the B&O replaced the original bridge with the current one. The three-span through truss bridge with a center swing span was built by the American Bridge Company. During construction, a tugboat grounded on the nearby riverbank and was freed by a B&O locomotive. The bridge was struck by the tugboat "Radnor", hauling a barge loaded with oleum, on March 12, 1924. The bridge was originally protected by a mechanical interlocking, which was revised in 1914. It was replaced in 1946 with an electrical interlocking, which also controlled the nearby junction with the Reading Company at Eastwick. In 1977, the Chessie