In 1836, Herman Haupt had surveyed the "road from Gettysburg across South Mountain to the Potomac"[8] and in 1838,[9] the rail "bed"[10] was "graded for a number of miles, never got further than Monterey",[11] and included the following (west-to-east):[12]
After Thaddeus Stevens lost[when?] his position on the Canal Commission, the commonwealth ended the railroad's financing and work was suspended[3] in 1838,[17] and an 1839 survey was ordered of the planned line.[18]
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Dalton, Rodney Garth. "IV Our Dalton Family in Carmarthenshire, Wales". From Knights to Dreamers. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
^Congressional edition. Vol. 1577. US Government Printing Office. 1873. p. 677. Retrieved 2012-06-17. Mr. Stevens [owned] the Caledonia Furnace property, and the Maria Furnace property, most of which he acquired prior to 1830 in partnership. He subsequently bought out his partners.
^"Town and Country". Gettysburg Compiler. July 29, 1884. Retrieved 2010-06-29. Engineer Gitt has located the connection between the "Tapeworm" track and the Round-Top branch, and grading will be commenced at once. It is to have new steel rails. … Orr Station.
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^"Another Railroad Survey". Gettysburg Compiler. October 4, 1887. Retrieved 2011-06-29. Major Boyne and his corps of engineers … commenced surveying a line from Blue Ridge Summit … to Orrtanna … the present terminus of the Tape Worm railroad, a branch of the Western Maryland