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History Of Rail Transport In Philadelphia
... Philadelphia was an early railroad hub, with lines from all over meeting in Philadelphia ... The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, opened in 1832 north to Germantown ... At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, part of the Main Line of Public Works, opened for travel to the west, built to avoid ...

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