About: Octoraro Railway

An Entity of Type: agent, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Octoraro Railway was a shortline railroad that operated in Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1994. The company was formed in 1976. It obtained a lease from SEPTA to operate freight trains on the Octoraro Branch, a former Pennsylvania Railroad branch line, between Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and the state line near . It also leased the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, a former Reading Company branch, from Elsmere Jct. (Wilmington, Delaware) to South Modena (Modena, Pennsylvania). The company then created a connection between the two lines at Chadds Ford.

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	The Octoraro Railway was a shortline railroad that operated in Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1994. The company was formed in 1976. It obtained a lease from SEPTA to operate freight trains on the Octoraro Branch, a former Pennsylvania Railroad branch line, between Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and the state line near . It also leased the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, a former Reading Company branch, from Elsmere Jct. (Wilmington, Delaware) to South Modena (Modena, Pennsylvania). The company then created a connection between the two lines at Chadds Ford. The Octoraro Railway ceased operations on June 30, 1994. The Delaware Valley Railway acquired the company on July 1, 1994. (en)
dbo:closingYear	1994-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:headquarter	dbr:Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania
dbo:location	dbr:New_Castle_County,_Delaware dbr:Chester_County,_Pennsylvania
dbo:openingYear	1977-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:reportingMark	OCTR
dbo:wikiPageID	3967922 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	3589 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1029610371 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:New_Castle_County,_Delaware dbr:Brandywine_Valley_Railroad dbr:Delaware_Valley_Railway dbr:Pennsylvania dbr:Pennsylvania_Railroad dbr:SEPTA dbr:Wilmington_and_Northern_Railroad dbr:Freight_train dbr:Modena,_Pennsylvania dbr:Morristown_and_Erie_Railway dbr:Wilmington,_Delaware dbc:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1994 dbr:East_Penn_Railroad dbc:Defunct_Delaware_railroads dbc:Railway_companies_established_in_1977 dbr:List_of_Pennsylvania_railroads dbr:RailAmerica dbc:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads dbr:Chadds_Ford,_Pennsylvania dbr:Chester_County,_Pennsylvania dbr:Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania dbr:Reading_Company dbr:Right-of-way_(transportation) dbr:Shortline_railroad dbr:Delaware_Valley_Railroad dbr:Octoraro_Branch dbr:Sylmar,_Maryland
dbp:endYear	1994 (xsd:integer)
dbp:hqCity	dbr:Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania
dbp:locale	Chester County, Pennsylvania and New Castle County, Delaware (en)
dbp:marks	OCTR (en)
dbp:predecessorLine	dbr:Delaware_Valley_Railroad
dbp:railroadName	Octoraro Railway (en)
dbp:startYear	1977 (xsd:integer)
dbp:successorLine	dbr:East_Penn_Railroad
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Portal dbt:Reflist dbt:Track_gauge dbt:US-rail-transport-stub dbt:Infobox_rail dbt:Pennsylvania_railroads dbt:Delaware_railroads
dcterms:subject	dbc:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1994 dbc:Defunct_Delaware_railroads dbc:Railway_companies_established_in_1977 dbc:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads
gold:hypernym	dbr:Railroad
rdf:type	owl:Thing dbo:Company schema:Organization dul:Agent dul:SocialPerson dbo:Agent wikidata:Q24229398 wikidata:Q43229 wikidata:Q4830453 dbo:PublicTransitSystem yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Business108061042 yago:Carrier108057633 yago:Enterprise108056231 yago:Group100031264 yago:Line103671473 yago:Organization108008335 yago:Railway104048568 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Organisation yago:SocialGroup107950920 yago:WikicatDefunctDelawareRailroads yago:WikicatDefunctPennsylvaniaRailroads
rdfs:comment	The Octoraro Railway was a shortline railroad that operated in Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1994. The company was formed in 1976. It obtained a lease from SEPTA to operate freight trains on the Octoraro Branch, a former Pennsylvania Railroad branch line, between Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and the state line near . It also leased the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, a former Reading Company branch, from Elsmere Jct. (Wilmington, Delaware) to South Modena (Modena, Pennsylvania). The company then created a connection between the two lines at Chadds Ford. (en)
rdfs:label	Octoraro Railway (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:Octoraro Railway yago-res:Octoraro Railway wikidata:Octoraro Railway https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4snuH
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Octoraro_Railway?oldid=1029610371&ns=0
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Octoraro_Railway
foaf:name	Octoraro Railway (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of	dbr:Octoraro
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of	dbr:Octoraro_Railroad dbr:Octoraro_(PRR_station)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:List_of_reporting_marks:_O dbr:Octoraro dbr:Morristown_and_Erie_Railway dbr:Octoraro_Railroad dbr:Wilmington_and_Northern_Branch dbr:List_of_Delaware_railroads dbr:List_of_Pennsylvania_railroads dbr:Philadelphia_and_Baltimore_Central_Railroad dbr:Octoraro_(PRR_station)
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Octoraro_Railway