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==History==
In 1838, the B&O began service from Baltimore to Philadelphia using the new PW&B line.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mdoe.org/phil_wil_balt_rr.html |title=Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad |author=Herbert W. Harwood Jr.
In 1881, the B&O attempted to gain control of the PW&B, but lost the stock battle to the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], which informed the B&O that it would lose access to the PW&B line in 1884.<ref name="Stover">{{cite book |title=History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |last=Stover |first=John F. |year=1987 |publisher=Purdue University Press |location=West Lafayette, IN |isbn=0-911198-81-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEPCqQErPHAC
Except at its two ends, the line was built within a few miles to the northwest of the PW&B. At the Baltimore end, the line ended in the [[Canton, Maryland|Canton]] neighborhood, with a [[Train ferry|car ferry]] across the [[Patapsco River]] to [[Locust Point, Maryland|Locust Point]]. At the Philadelphia end, the new line crossed the PW&B and its old alignment (part of the [[Philadelphia and Reading Railway]]'s branch to [[Chester (PA)|Chester]]) and crossed to the east side of the [[Schuylkill River]] on the new [[B&O Railroad Bridge]], just south of the [[Grays Ferry Bridge]]. A branch split there towards the [[Delaware River]], while the main line continued north along the Schuylkill, with [[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|a station downtown]], and then passed through the [[Art Museum Tunnel]] to [[Park Junction]] with the [[Philadelphia and Reading Railway]]'s main line; this tunnel, the last part of the line to be finished, opened on December 15, 1886.<ref name='HarwoodRoyalBlue'>{{cite book | last=Harwood Jr. | first=Herbert H. | title=Royal Blue Line: The Classic B&O Train Between Washington and New York | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | year=2002 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xFtQGUUaxYC |
[[File:Perryville Railroad Bridge LOC 082060pu.jpg|thumb|right|The [[CSX Susquehanna River Bridge]] is the second bridge at this crossing, a steel truss [[double track]] design built between 1907 and 1910 near [[Perryville, Maryland]]. It replaced a single-track iron and steel bridge built in 1886 during the original construction of the line.<ref name='Stover' />{{rp|166}}]]
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