Laura Randall described Railroad as a "tiny town of three hundred people near the Maryland border... home to the Jackson House B&B, a popular crab shack, and not much else."[5]
At the time of the 2000 census,[8] there were three hundred people, one hundred and twelve households and seventy-nine families living in the borough.
The population density was 478.7 inhabitants per square mile (184.8/km2). There were one hundred and sixteen housing units at an average density of 185.1 per square mile (71.5/km2).
There were one hundred and twelve households, of which 41.1% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 57.1% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.6% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.1% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.
The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.16.
29.0% of the population were under the age of eighteen, 8.3% from eighteen to twenty-four, 33.7% from twenty-five to forty-four, 20.7% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 8.3% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was thirty-six years.
For every one hundred females there were 98.7 males. For every one hundred females aged eighteen and over, there were 86.8 males.
The median household income was $37,917 and the median family income was $47,813. Males had a median income of $29,286 compared with that of $25,417 for females. The per capita income was $16,709.
Roughly 1.3% of families and 4.7% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 16.7% of those aged sixty-five or over. None were under the age of eighteen.
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