Atlantic City Railroad Company
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Atlantic City Railroad
Glasboro Railroad Company
Kaighn's Point Terminal Railroad Company
Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad Company
Williamstown and Delaware River Railroad Company
Sources
found: NUCMC data from Camden County Historical Society for Ewan, N.R. Narrow gauge railroad, [19--](Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad)
found: American narrow gauge railroads, c1990p. 445-449 (Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway; org. in Camden, N.J. in 1876; 1883, formal transfer of the Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway to the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; 1884, reorganized as the Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railroad; 1889, Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railroad and Camden, Gloucester & Mt. Ephraim Railway consolidated into the Atlantic City Railroad)
found: Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines records, 1859-1976 :(Atlantic City Railroad Company; inc. in N.J., March 29, 1889 by merger of Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad Company, Williamstown and Delaware River Railroad Company, Glassboro Railroad Company, Camden, Gloucester & Mt. Ephraim Railway Company, and Kaighn's Point Terminal Railroad Company; reincorporated, June 14, 1901, upon absorbing Camden County Railroad Company, Ocean City Railroad Company, and Seacoast Railroad Company; stock owned by Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and successor, Reading Company; two-thirds interest sold to Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1933; name changed to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, July 15, 1933, after leasing property of West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(Atlantic City Railroad merged in 1933 with the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company to form the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines)
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1982-03-09: new
2014-12-18: revised
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