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	The Pennsylvania Railroad
		The pioneer Camden and South Amboy Railroad was chartered by the New Jersey State Legislature late in 1830 to operate a combined rail and water route between Philadelphia, Camden, and New York City.
		It is a terminus on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		In 1892 the Pennsylvania Railroad adopted a 4 ft. 8-1/2 in.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r009.html (4633 words)

	Railroads in Historic Burlington City, NJ
		The Camden and Amboy was a rather progressive railroad initially and was the first to implement containerized handling of luggage and baggage, but the management's interest in maintaining a monopoly led them to purchase other rail lines, rather than upgrading their equipment roster or improving safety.
		Although the railroad management tried to shift the blame, local writer Henry C. Carey exposed poor operating procedures as the true cause of the tragedy.
		A second railroad, the Burlington and Mount Holly Railroad and Transportation Company, was incorporated in 1836, but construction was delayed by the financial panic of 1837, and the line was not completed until the late 1840's.
	08016.com /railroads.html (948 words)

	index
		The first railroad in the United States was built in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1827 to haul granite from quarries to the river.
		While the travelers of the 1830s had to be content with riding on two-axle flat cars with benches, the invention of the two-axle truck (with a truck at each end of a coach, for fout axles total) allowed longer cars with a better ride.
		The railroads were also becoming the largest employer in the country and their economic impact was widespread as they were consumers of material like iron as well as the primary shipper for goods from coast to coast.
	www.newenglandrailroad.com /page11.html (1921 words)

	The Trenton - Kensington Railroad
		To this company also was given power to place on the railroad machines, wagons, vehicles, carriages, and teams of any kind, and to transport goods and passengers, said road to be a public highway for conveyance of passengers, and transportation under rates to be charged by the company.
		The railroad was completed from Kensington to Morrisville on the 1st of November, 1834, and a locomotive was immediately placed upon it, which ran to Morrisville, twenty-eight miles, in one hour and thirty minutes.
		It was urged that the establishment of a railroad to be carried through the thickly-built portions of the districts would be dangerous to the lives of citizens and injurious to property.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~wdstock/railroad.htm (1447 words)

	City of Camden New Jersey
		The monopolistic practices of the railroads occurred as early as 1840 in Camden when the Camden and Amboy Railroad, owners of the Camden and Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Company, began to buy out their competitors in an effort to exert complete control over riverfront lands.
		Camden Republican political leaders who served as state and national officials had investments in major railroads companies as well as interests vested in utilities and banking organizations.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad, with nothing short of a monopoly over the internal affairs of Camden during the last decades of the Nineteenth Century, was primarily responsible for the development and expansion of the City of Camden.
	www.ci.camden.nj.us /history/industrialization.html (1481 words)

	Building the Madison Railroad to Indianapolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Madison railroad was one of the first in the U.S. to lay iron rail instead of the dangerous and weaker strap rail.
		The 5-mile Pontchartrain Railroad between New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain was the first to be completed west of the Appalachian Mountains, beginning operation with horses April 23, 1831, and with steam locomotives September 17, 1832.
		Among the railroad conventions held in towns along the line was one in Columbus in March 1842, with James Blake acting as chairman and various citizens of the county in attendance.
	members.aol.com /ma393/railroad/madison.htm (3966 words)

	RR Museum of PA - Home Page Picture Gallery
		Although his initial recommendations were not implemented, his sons later constructed the Camden and Amboy Railroad, and the Stevens name was to become associated with early railroad progress.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was later to refer to Stevens as the Father of American Railroads.
		The original oil is in the collection of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, and is periodically on display in its gallery, along with other Grif Teller paintings, official portraits of the presidents of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and other railroad art.
	www.rrmuseumpa.org /about/welcome/intropict.htm (1024 words)

	Story Of Camden And Amboy
		The railroad was completed between Bordentown and Amboy in 1832, and on December 17th the first passengers went through, fifty or sixty of them.
		It was a rainy day, and the cars were drawn by horses, for they could not in those days trust their locomotive out in the rain.
		This is a much-used "inside water route," and it had one of the old lines of the railroad constructed on the canal bank all the way.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-53.shtml (690 words)

	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was joined by—and often competed with—the Baltimore and Ohio, the Reading Company (a major hauler of anthracite), the Bessemer and Lake Erie (serving the steel industry), the Lehigh Valley, the Norfolk and Western, and even parts of the Pennsylvania Railroad's arch rival, the New York Central.
		Railroad towns such as Altoona, in Blair County, grew into major manufacturing and repair centers to service the burgeoning industry.
		As the participating railroads assembled equipment to display at the New York World's Fair, officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which lacked any formal program for preserving "relics," searched for visually impressive and historically important locomotives—in some cases the last of their kind.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/rrmuseum/page3.asp?secid=31 (663 words)

	RR Museum of PA - John Bull Replica
		Because railroads in England were being constructed at that time with rails made of wood with metal stringers on the top, the original drivers of the John Bull were made of wood.
		The Camden and Amboy Railroad merged with the New Jersey Railroad in 1869 to form the United New Jersey Railroad and Canals Company.
		The Railroad was mounting a major exhibit in that year, and the John Bull was displayed with some of the PRR's newest locomotives.
	www.rrmuseumpa.org /about/roster/johnbull.htm (2826 words)

	Camden County: County History
		Camden County institutions, municipalities, and streets still bear the names of many of those who made this area their new home.
		The coming of Camden and Amboy Railroad helped spur its population growth to 9,500 by mid-century.
		During the period following Camden County's separation from Gloucester County in 1844, the county population, having expanded greatly, exceeded 25,000.
	www.co.camden.nj.us /facts (1267 words)

	Camden County News: Underground Railroad
		CAMDEN, N.J. (June 4, 2001) -- Giles R. Wright, director of the New Jersey Historical Commission's Afro-American History Program, was the featured speaker (above, left) at Saturday's session on the underground railroad co-sponsored by the Camden County Historical Society and the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission.
		Wright, who is conducting extensive research of underground railroad activities throughout the state, provided a sweeping narrative of 170 years of the region's fl history.
		Prepared by the Camden County Historical Society's staff of volunteers, refreshments at the event in the Society's Camden headquarters included a crystal punch bowl of pink lemonade with a fruit-molded ice ring, and a variety of pastries.
	historiccamdencounty.com /ccnews12.shtml (326 words)

	CourierPostonline - Camden 2015 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Camden owes its existence to the expanse of eminently navigable creeks that flowed through it and into the Delaware three centuries ago.
		The railroads supplanted the creeks as the region’s primary transportation system and facilitated the city’s emergence as an industrial powerhouse.
		The physical development of Camden and its neighborhoods was substantially complete by the early 20th century, as the city enjoyed the greatest prosperity it has yet known.
	www.courierpostonline.com /camden2015/years.html (1125 words)

	LIRR History Part 1 - Page 2
		The Camden and Amboy Railroad, from Camden to South Amboy in New Jersey, was completed in 1834.
		The Long Island Railroad in 1836 became the seventh road in the United States to use the steam locomotive, and of those now existing, the third.
		The first railroad in the world opened for general traffic was the Stockton and Darlington Railway, in Great Britain, in September, 1825.
	www.rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/0103/reif2.html (686 words)

	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Activity
		A focus at the museum is the story of the "John Bull," a train built in England in 1831 and brought to America to pull passengers over the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
		Encourage students to pick a particular time period of the railroad, research that period of time, pick an employee of the railroad and then write a short story as told by this employee.
		Have students create a railroad and lay the rails by using "toothpicks." Tell the students that they must treat this activity as a scientific process, reviewing first, the scientific process.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /curriculum/socialstd/FT/Railroad_MuseumPA_Act.html (1172 words)

	United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to 1872, its main lines were the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company (CandA), the first railroad in New Jersey and one of the first in the U.S., and the New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company (NJRR), the first railroad across the New Jersey Palisades.
		The Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company was chartered on February 4, 1830, on the same day as the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, after the two competing companies had come to a compromise.
		The Mercer and Somerset Railroad was leased October 1, 1871.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camden_and_Amboy_Railroad (2939 words)

	EARLY RAILS, SILLS, A STONE BLOCKS.--PHILADELPHIA AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD--Ringwalt
		This term was suggested by the liability of the iron bar to become loosened from its fastenings as a train moved over it, and it would sometimes suddenly turn upward with sufficient force to pierce the bottom of cars, and occasionally injure passengers, or throw a train from the track.
		The rail of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, on its opening, in September, 1830, was of wrought iron, divided into fish-bellied sections, each section being supported by a cast-iron chair, to which it was secured by a wooden wedge.
		The Camden and Amboy Railroad, laid with this rail, was opened October 9th, 1832, two years after the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abrw09.Html (3460 words)

	National Canal Museum - Education - Delaware and Raritan Canal
		On February 4, 1830, the New Jersey Legislature granted a charter to the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company to construct a canal across the narrow waist of New Jersey, thus connecting the Delaware River with Raritan Bay and the lower portion of New York Harbor.
		In 1871 both the D. and R. Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad were leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		Since the Pennsylvania Railroad was locked in a rivalry with the Reading Railroad, which con- trolled the Schuylkill Navigation, restrictive tolls were initiated to discourage Schuylkill boats from utilizing the Delaware and Raritan.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~techclin/canal/education/delawareandraritan.html (602 words)

	New Jersey - Transportation
		Other lines—such as the Elizabeth and Somerville, the Morris and Essex, the Paterson and Hudson, and the Jersey Central—were limited to shorter runs, largely because the Camden and Amboy's influence with the legislature gave it a huge competitive advantage.
		Camden and Amboy stock was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1871, and the ensuing controversy over whether New Jersey transit should be entrusted to an "alien" company led to the passage of a law opening up the state to rail competition.
		The Ports of Philadelphia and Camden, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia, operates facilities along the Delaware River including the Beckett Street and Broadway Terminals in Camden formerly operated by the South Jersey Port Corporation.
	www.city-data.com /states/New-Jersey-Transportation.html (947 words)

	National Park Service: Resorts and Recreation (Chapter 2)
		Reportedly "the first steam-powered railroad to operate successfully in the United States," [2] the track ran from Camden to the bay.
		At mid century, the Camden and Amboy Company was notorious for its control over rail transportation in the "state of Camden and Amboy." When the New Jersey Central and the Philadelphia and Reading connected to form a competing route between New York and Philadelphia, the two companies entered into a bitter court dispute.
		Within a year, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad brought a select group of 600 news and businessmen to the United States Hotel, and Atlantic City began its physical and metaphoric growth as a choice resort.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/nj1/chap2.htm (2673 words)

	Cramer Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Sunday-school teachers, with the assistance of the Trinity Baptist Church of Camden, built a frame Mission Chapel and fitted it for school purposes.
		After that he came to Camden, where he engaged in the coal business with his father-in-law, John Wright, for four years.
		About this time he turned his attention to real estate, and began to purchase land with a view to laying out a town, and Cramer’s Hill is the result.
	www.eticomm.net /~kelta/camden/cramerhill.html (1550 words)

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		The Camden and Amboy railroad was one of the first charters granted for a Railroad by the New Jersey State Legislature.
		The next major construction activity was a response to the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad's purchase of land between Trenton and New Brunswick.
		A junction was built with the New Jersey Railroad at New Brunswick.
	members.tripod.com /njrails/19th_Century/Camden_Amboy/C_A.htm (644 words)

	CENTURY 21 GANDY & BROWN REALTY \| Local History
		His purchase of the mill at Jamesburg coincided with the opening of the Camden and Amboy Railroad which crossed the opposite end of the settlement.
		He was one of the contractors for the construction of the original lines of the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
		The railroad's presence was responsible for the establishment of Downs, Gourlay, and Finch shirt factory in 1871.
	www.gandyandbrown.com /LocalHistory.html (1758 words)

	1872 in rail transport at AllExperts
		* May 18 - The Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey Railroad and the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey, are merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company.
		* The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad leases North Carolina's Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
		* April 9 - Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (b.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1872_in_rail_transport.htm (590 words)

	The John Bull
		In the summer of 1831, the first locomotive of the Camden and Amboy railroad was shipped in pieces from the Robert Stephenson factory at Newcastle upon Tyne in England.
		In 1871, the Camden and Amboy railroad was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		Today it resides in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania where it is occasionally operated.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/oldvegas/johnbull.html (791 words)

	The DL&W Railroad
		The Miners, Manufacturers and Farmers Railroad was chartered, but it was financially still-born and the directors of the M and E continued their building program by breaking ground for the Dover extension, the first train ran through on July 31at 1848.
		The tunnels and connectors were completed in 1876 and combined with the Pennsylvania Railroad’s ‘In perpetuity’ leasing of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, about which the New York Herald “mocked”, “The halo of New Jersey’s glory hath left her.
		The relatively steady advance of the railroads in the Northeast came to a screeching halt in March of 1888.
	jcrhs.org /dlw.html (3525 words)

	Camden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Camden's European history dates to the late seventeenth century, when it was founded by Quakers.
		In 1834 the Camden and Amboy Railroad made the city its terminus point, triggering industrial development that continued until World War II.
		Seen from the middle of the Delaware River is Camden's downtown.
	www.richmangalleries.com /camden.htm (130 words)

	1831 in rail transport at AllExperts
		* June 23 - The Boston and Worcester Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in Massachusetts.
		* The New York and Harlem Railroad is incorporated to build a passenger railroad between its namesake cities.
		The Political Graveyard (March 10 2005), Politicians in Railroading in Massachusetts.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1831_in_rail_transport.htm (428 words)

	John Bull
		Stevens was building a railroad, one of the first in the United States; he had hired Isaac Dripps as a skilled mechanic.
		After the party, Stevens put his engine in a shed for two years while he worked on his railroad, laying rails between Camden and South Amboy, New Jersey (hence the name Camden and Amboy Railroad).
		The Camden and Amboy became one of the most successful early railroads in the U.S. Meanwhile, the John Bull that greets visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History today looks quite different than it did when first completed.
	www.150.si.edu /chap4/bull.htm (844 words)

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