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Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad: PRR: 1872 1885 Philadelphia Midland Railroad: Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad: RDG: 1888 1945 Reading Company: Philadelphia, Delaware and Chester Central Railroad: PRR: 1871 1872 Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad: Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad: PRR: 1890 1913
The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, opened in 1832 north to Germantown. At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad , part of the Main Line of Public Works , opened for travel to the west, built to avoid loss of travel through Pennsylvania due to projects such ...
Philadelphia, PA — Altoona, PA; The American 1925 — 1956 New York, NY — St. Louis, MO via Dayton, OH; Anthracite Express 1901 — 1941 Philadelphia, PA — Pottsville, PA — Wilkes-Barre, PA; The Arlington 1933 — 1962 Washington, DC — New York, NY; Atlanta Special 1892 — 1895 New York, NY — Washington, DC — Atlanta, GA via SAL
The route consisted of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, canals up the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, an inclined plane railroad called the Allegheny Portage Railroad, a tunnel across the Allegheny Mountains, and canals down the Conemaugh and Allegheny rivers to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River; it was completed in 1834 ...
On June 13, 1892, the Fair Hill Railroad was incorporated, and built 0.78 miles (1.26 km) of line from the Connecting Railway mainline near Rosehill Street to Cambria Street 1895–1896. Engelside Branch
Share of the West Chester and Philadelphia Rail Road Company, issued 12 December 1872. The West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad (WC&P) operated in the greater Philadelphia area from 1848 to 1881. It became the West Chester Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). It has been operated as the Media/Wawa Line on the SEPTA system since 2022. It ...
The section of the old Pennsylvania Railroad running from Philadelphia west through Chester County and, by extension, the western suburbs of Philadelphia, is still known as the Main Line. The Columbia Plane, which lowered railway cars down to the Eastern Division Canal along the Susquehanna River, was bypassed in 1840 by a new track alignment. [17]
Portal of the abandoned tunnel of the Allegheny Portage Railroad near Johnstown, PA, the first railroad tunnel in the United States. The eastern part of the PRR's main line (east of Lancaster) was built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Main Line of Public Works: a hybrid railroad and canal corridor across the state.