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3 unusual facts about Wilmington and Western Railroad


PRR B6

B6sa #60 is on a siding in Hockessin, Delaware, along the Wilmington and Western Railroad.

Wilmington and Western Railroad

SW900 #915 - built January 1956 by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors for the River Terminal Railway as #97; later acquired by Republic Steel and renumbered #915; leased to WWRC in fall 2008 for three-month period.

SW-1 #8408 was built in 1940 by EMC of General Motors and served the B&O in freight service on the Landenberg Branch until 1982.


White Clay Creek

Further south, after the confluence of Egypt Run, the creek begins to turn and meander in a narrow gorge, passing through Landenberg, formerly a mill town and the junction of the Pomeroy & Newark with the Wilmington and Western Railroad.


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