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This is a route-map template for the St. Charles Streetcar Line, a United States heritage streetcar.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Pennsylvania Railroad built its main line during the early 19th century as part of the Main Line of Public Works that spanned Pennsylvania. Later in the century, the railroad, which owned much of the land surrounding the tracks, encouraged the development of this picturesque environment by building way stations along the portion of its track closest to Philadelphia.
Schematic map of subway–surface branches and termini. The subway–surface lines are remnants of the far more extensive streetcar system that developed in Philadelphia after the arrival of electric trolleys in 1892. Several dozen traction companies were consolidated in 1902 into the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
1850s: Renamed the Pennsylvania Central Railway. 1850: Construction begins on Altoona Works repair shop at Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1857: The Main Line of Public Works of Pennsylvania purchased. 1865: First US railroad to use steel rails. [12] 1868: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway is formed and controlled by the Pennsy.
Fort Madison Street Railway [63]: 169–170 Fort Madison: Horse July 1888 1895 Electric 1895 1929 Independence & Rush Park Street Railway [63]: 183 Independence: Electric August 22, 1892 August 14, 1907 Iowa City Electric Railway [63]: 170 ♦ Iowa City Electric November 1, 1910 August 16, 1930
President Street Station in Baltimore, built between 1849 and 1850; a portion of the station is still standing and is home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum. A Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad freight shed, now a Sprouts Farmers Market, on Carpenter Street between Broad and 15th Streets in Philadelphia, named to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2011 [2])
A new alignment of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad opened in 1872, and the old one was leased in 1873 to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. In 1886, the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad opened, giving the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad its own route into Philadelphia.
The West Philadelphia Elevated, also known as the High Line or Philadelphia High Line, is a railroad viaduct in the western part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Now part of the Harrisburg Subdivision of CSX Transportation , the viaduct was built in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to allow through freight trains to bypass rail yard ...