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The Atglen and Susquehanna : Lancaster County's low grade

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Author
Abendschein, Frederic H.
Date of Publication
1993.
form a safe passageway through the area.' However, with William H. Brown, "the Supreme Court of the PRR," in charge, guess who won. Close by on the York County side, Kerbaugh built another, smaller bridge over the Codorus Creek. Workers began the bridge in the Fall of 1903 and finished it in the Spring
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by Frederic H. Abendschein.
Author
Abendschein, Frederic H.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1993.
Physical Description
[2]-19 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 95, no. 1
Notes
The Atglen and Susquehanna was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight only line avoiding the passenger branch that went through Lancaster. It was also known as the "A and S", the "Low Grade" or the "Enola branch". It may have once been part of a larger plan to have a low grade railroad from the east coast of the U.S. all the way to the midwest.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Railroad - History.
Atglen and Susquehanna Railroad Company.
Railroads - Pennsylvania
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 2-19Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95
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