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The railroad that never ran

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14930
Author
Gleason, Gene
Call Number
905.748 SM (Oct. 1981)
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Responsibility
by Gene Gleason.
Author
Gleason, Gene
Physical Description
20-25 p.
Notes
In: Susuehana Magazine, October 1981.
Summary
A magazine article about a plan by railroad moguls to build a railroad in Pennsylvania to compete with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Construction started on this "South Penn" railroad in 1883 but was later abandoned. Its right of way later became the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Subjects
South Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Pennsylvania Railroad - History.
Railroad - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 SM (Oct. 1981)
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Vanderbilt's folly

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15096
Author
Shank, William H.
Date of Publication
1964.
Call Number
388.1 S528
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Author
Shank, William H.
Place of Publication
York, PA
Publisher
Buchart-Horn Consulting Engineers,
Date of Publication
1964.
Physical Description
30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Vanderbilt, William Henry, - 1821-1885.
South Pennsylvania Railroad.
Pennsylvania Turnpike (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
388.1 S528
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