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of jets and space craft, the railroad may seem a thing out of the past, — sort of a `dead duck.' Yet for over a century, the railroads have played a vital role in the lives of millions of people. True, the railroads are a thing of the past, and a glorious past it was, too. The railroad was the most

The Reading and Columbia Railroad John D. Denney, Jr. One hundred years ago, on March 15, 1864, the first train ran from Columbia to Reading over the newly-built Reading and Columbia Rail- road. At its height, the world of the Reading and Columbia extended from Sinking Springs on the North to

HISTORICAL NOTES TI S on. -the DISTAFF SIDE MARION WALLACE RENINGER HANNAH GIBBONS From the early 1800's up to the time of the Civil War, there existed an organization known as the Underground Railroad. The object of this group of brave and active men and women was to assist fugitive slaves on

ROBERT S. MAYO THE TAPEWORM RAILROAD The story of Thaddeus Stevens' Tape- worm, of Thaddeus Stevens himself, and of the most turbulent state election of 1838, probably the dirtiest and most violent Gubernatorial election in all of Pennsylvania's history. The "Tapeworm" was a projected railroad to