The Escondido Sub formerly served one of the larger railroads in the United States that was chartered in what year?
Escondido Sub The Escondido Sub in North County region of San Diego County, is a 22-mile branch line between Oceanside, California and Escondido, California. It is primarily used today by the Sprinter light rail and local freight trains serving Escondido industries. The Pacific Sun Railroad runs a tri-weekly local freight service late at night, after the last Sprinter train of the day is taken out of service. The line formerly served Santa Fe trains, with passenger trains operating until 1946. Local Santa Fe (later BNSF) freight trains continued to operate over the line until 2008, when the service was contracted out to PSRR. In 2007, the tracks of the branch were relaid with new stations and an elevated loop constructed in preparation for the Sprinter.
Rutland and Washington Railroad The Rutland and Washington Railroad was a railroad company based in Rutland, Vermont which was chartered in Vermont on November 13, 1847 and built between Rutland and Eagle Bridge in Rensselaer County, New York in 1851 and 1852. One of the company's founders was Merritt Clark, a Vermont politician, and another was Thomas Canfield, later involved with the Northern Pacific. In order to build in New York, the company, on June 24, 1850, took a perpetual rent-free lease of the franchise rights east of Salem of the Troy and Rutland Railroad, which had been chartered in that state on July 2, 1849. The remainder of the Troy and Rutland, from Salem west to Eagle Bridge, was completed in 1852 and leased to the Rutland and Washington effective July 2.