The Reading Company (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania...
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The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge carries Norfolk Southern rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Lemoyne, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg...
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The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) was an American railroad that operated independently from 1836 to 1881. Headquartered in Philadelphia...
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Harrisburg on the Susquehanna River. The PRR at the time had access to Baltimore via its own lines (the NCRY from the north and the Philadelphia, Baltimore &...
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The Susquehanna River (/ˌsʌskwəˈhænə/ SUSS-kwə-HAN-ə; Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping...
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water at the west side of the river near the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge. List of crossings of the Susquehanna River Harrisburg Area Riverboat...
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The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad (reporting mark RBMN), sometimes shortened to Reading and Northern Railroad, is a regional railroad in...
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branches of the Susquehanna River in the state's center. In the 1830s railway technology and new railroads grew in leaps and bounds, and the Schuylkill...
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CSX Susquehanna River Bridge is a railroad bridge that carries CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville...
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Castle Industrial Railroad (NCIR) New Hope Railroad (NHRR) New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW) Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad (NBER) (North...
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The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad was a railroad company that formerly operated in western and north central Pennsylvania and western New York. It was...
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1887, the CNJ was leased to and operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, with which it formed a New York-Philadelphia route. CNJ resumed its own...
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iron and steel bridges on the railroad were replaced with stone (Pennsy preferred stone to the preference of the Reading and Lackawanna Railroad for concrete)...
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Columbia–Wrightsville Bridge, officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge, spans the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, and carries Pennsylvania...
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Northern Central Railway (redirect from Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad)
(NCRY) was a Class I Railroad in the United States connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858...
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submerged valley, of the Susquehanna River. In that sense the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge crossings precede those in...
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River up the Belmont Plane to Ardmore. The Columbia Bridge and line east to Broad and Vine Streets were sold to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad...
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The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad is a defunct railroad that operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the 19th and 20th centuries. The company was a subsidiary...
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the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. List of crossings of the Susquehanna River Egle 1891, p. 519. "Crossing the Susquehanna: Will an old railroad (re)connect...
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far flung canals, and eventually railroads authorized early in 1826. Schuylkill Canal - Navigation joining Reading, PA and Philadelphia. Reliability of...
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Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad (part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) in 1887. This is the first railroad meant to be permanent, and the first...
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Main Line of Public Works (redirect from Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad)
technology, railroads, in place of the planned but costly 82-mile (132 km) canal connecting the Delaware River in Philadelphia to the Susquehanna River. The...
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Poughkeepsie Bridge line. The Philadelphia and Reading Railway gained control of the Central New England and Western Railroad in early 1892, and the PP&B...
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Pennsylvania Railroad was a rail line in Pennsylvania connecting Philadelphia with Pittsburgh via Harrisburg. The rail line was split into two rail lines, and now...
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Pennsylvania Route 61 (redirect from Pennsylvania Route 61 Truck (Reading))
Schuylkill River Trail and coming to a bridge over the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Reading Division line and the Schuylkill River. Upon crossing...
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(reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas...
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Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company. On January 7, 1853, the railroad's name was changed to Lehigh Valley Railroad. It was sometimes known...
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mines along the Susquehanna River and all but obliterated what was left of the region's anthracite industry. The Lackawanna Railroad's financial problems...
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Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge once carried the York Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad across the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville...
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in Philadelphia Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct, in Fairmount Park Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No...
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