One day in May, as the roaring steam whistle sounded, a plume of black smoke rose above the locomotive.
A train operated by the Camden-Atlantic City Railway Company came to a halt at the Atlantic City train station.
In Atlantic City, there were two railway companies, namely the Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company and the earlier Camden-Atlantic City Railway Company.
In those days, to prevent the Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company from constructing railways, the Camden-Atlantic City Railway Company did not allow them to transport any construction machinery or use their trains to carry building materials on their tracks.
The boss of the Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company, Cyril Richards, could only bypass Cape May by water to deliver their machinery to the shore, and the railway sleepers were also transported by boat from Baltimore.
On July 7, 1877, the first train of the Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company arrived in Atlantic City from Philadelphia.
