Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) was a joint venture of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Railroad in southern New Jersey. Both railroads had built rail networks in the region, but the Great Depression cut into profits and the two companies joined their southern New Jersey lines into one company, which the PRR had a 2/3 ownership in.
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System map (former Pennsylvania lines in red, former Reading lines in purple)
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The Atlantic City Railroad (originally known as the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway) was incorporated in the 1800s, and ran from Camden to Atlantic City. On June 14, 1901 it was reincorporated as a merger with three other railroads:
- Camden County Railroad - Camden to Grenloch
- Ocean City Railroad - Ocean City Junction to Ocean City
- Seacoast Railroad - Winslow Junction to Cape May and Tuckahoe to Sea Isle City
By then, the ACRR was under control of the Reading Railroad.
The Williamstown Railroad from Mullica Hill to Atco, which had been acquired by the Reading in 1883, was merged with the ACRR at some point.
In July 1930 the ACRR acquired the Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad, which ran from Wildwood Junction to Wildwood; it was merged with the ACRR (by then PRSL) in 1934.
In April 1932 the ACRR acquired the Stone Harbor Railroad, from Cape May Court House to Stone Harbor; it was merged with the PRSL in 1936.
The Atlantic City Railroad changed its name to Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. It was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission in June 1933 to abandon its main line east of Winslow Junction in favor of the parallel Pennsylvania Railroad line, and to use the PRR station in Camden.
On January 30, 1934, the ICC authorized PRSL to abandon a short part of the Williamstown Branch in Glassboro.
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