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| | Erie Railroad - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Erie Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Erie was the first railway in the country to be conceived from the outset as a trunk line (a long-distance main line, rather than a collection of short lines). |
 | | Construction costs, the decision to use unorthodox (1.83 m/6 ft gauge) track that later had to be replaced, and the location of the Erie's eastern terminus at Piermont, a village in Rockland County some distance (29 km/18 mi north of midtown Manhattan by boat) from New York City, brought perpetual financial crisis. |
 | | Nevertheless, the Erie was known as the ‘Work of the Age’, for such engineering feats as the 366 m/1,200 ft-high Starrucca Viaduct (near Susquehanna, Pennsylvania). |
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