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Where Are All the and Baltimore RR that bound Eastern
Shore communities together with rails
Old Railroad Depots of steel along with hundreds of other
Today? rail companies across the nation.

And 81-year-old Roland Cartwright, of
By Dan Tabler Goldsboro, recalls the days he served
(Caroline Review April 1983 issue) as station agent in both Goldsboro and
Greensboro when “the iron horse” was

The end of an era was observed quietly
the principal mode of travel.
in Caroline County just a few weeks ago
when a chugging diesel engine slowly “I remember as many as fi ve passenger Goldsboro Train Depot
bumped its way out of Greensboro with trains a day; particularly on Saturdays in
a couple of freight cars tagging along the summer. We had four on a regular
behind. daily basis, but on Saturdays a lot of Mr. Cartwright, who still does income
tax work at his one on MD 313 just
New York people who had homes in

It was the final run on the MD-DEL RR south of Goldsboro, also wonders what
Talbot County and along the Bayshore
Spur line that used to serve communities has happened to many of the small
came down forcing an extra train to be
in Caroline and Talbot counties with as depots that served passengers along
run,” he said.
many as five passenger trains and a the line.
couple freight trains a day at the turn He laughed as he recalled it “was
of the century. about $3.25 for an excursion trip from “I know the folks in Ridgely have
Greensboro to Atlantic City for a day’s transformed their depot into a town

The 55-mile-long branch from Clayton, hall,” he said.
outing.”
DE to Oxford, MD, was known as the
Delaware & Chesapeake and was a “The trains ran direct to the boardwalk His old station in Goldsboro and

part of the Philadelphia, Wilmington in those days,” he said. Greensboro were made into other uses.
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