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	Trenton (New Jersey) - MSN Encarta
		Trenton (New Jersey), city in the western part of New Jersey, capital of the state and seat of Mercer County, on the Delaware River.
		Trenton is the seat of the state government, which is a major employer in the city.
		By the mid-19th century Trenton was one of the nation's foremost industrial centers, a position enhanced by its location on the Delaware and Raritan Canal and on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561142/Trenton_(New_Jersey).html (494 words)

	Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
		Incorporated in Virginia in 1870 for the purpose of consolidating the Norfolk and Petersburg, the Southside, the Virginia and Tennessee, and the Virginia and Kentucky railroads.
		Reorganized in 1880 from the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
		Railroad official for several railroads in the eastern United States in the mid to late 1800s, born in Mt. Carbon, Pennsylvania.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/guiderr.htm (13515 words)

	Philadelphia - Wikitravel
		Philadelphia [1], located in southeastern Pennsylvania, on the southern fringe of the mid-Atlantic region, is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the country's fifth-largest city.
		Philadelphia, often called the "Birthplace of America" and referred to as the "new Athens" early in its existence, is the birthplace of America's modern democracy.
		Philadelphia's economy is as diverse as the population that inhabits the city.
	wikitravel.org /en/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania (6155 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)

	Plainsboro Historical Society
		This charter said that the turnpike was to begin at the head of Warren or Green Streets at the northeast end of Trenton and running to New Brunswick and it was to be for a term of 99 years.
		On December 15, 1832 an overture was made by the Philadelphia and Trenton to unite with the turnpike for converting the road to a railroad.
		The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad petitioned the New Jersey Legislature for authority to lay a railroad atop the turnpike.
	www.plainsborohistory.com /turnpike.htm (1685 words)

	PROGRESS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.--NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK RAILWAYS.--Ringwalt
		Philadelphia had also built three railways within her limits, to be operated chiefly, if not exclusively, with animal power, which had an aggregate length of six miles.
		The Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad had cost $48,780 per mile, and the Allegheny Portage road $50,450 per mile, and they were two of the most expensive roads that had then been built in the United States.
		The length of the railroads in operation in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois was 196 miles; additional mileage graded, 533; not yet constructed, 2,092½, and the aggregate length of the projected systems was 2,821½ miles.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abrw06.Html (2302 words)

	Early Railroad Transportation
		Application having been made to the Legislature for a charter for a railroad company to ply between Philadelphia and Norristown (See stock certificate for this railroad), an act was passed on February 17, 1831, incorporating the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown railroad.
		Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad was incorporate February 23, 1832, with a capital of six hundred thousand dollars.
		The Philadelphia Traction Company gave notice that on and after the first of April the fare on all lines controlled by the company would be five cents for a single ride, with privilege of transfer at certain points and additional charge of two cents for transfer at other points formerly freely given.
	www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/railroad.htm (4242 words)

	The Underground Railroad
		It began in Philadelphia; from there, the fugitives were taken across the Delaware to Camden, where they were given temporary shelter in the Macedonia African Episcopal Church on Spruce Street.
		Forewarned, the railroad shunted to a secondary route to Perth Amboy or South Amboy, where the 'passengers' could be safely forwarded to New York City.
		The efficiency of the Underground Railroad was in its versatility; like the Internet, the web of loosely connected safe houses allowed for re-routing in case searcher, hunters or spies blocked access to the next regular station.
	www.phillyburbs.com /undergroundrailroad/NJroutes.shtml (890 words)

	WILLSON v. BLACK-BIRD CREEK MARSH CO., 27 U.S. 245 (1829) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		The eighth section authorizes the company to construct a railroad from Philadelphia to Trenton, which, by nexessary implication, gives the power of erecting bridges over the streams between these places, without which the object of the law could not be effected.
		This is admitted by the counsel for the complainants, but he contends, that the proviso to the eleventh section is a positive prohibition to erect any bridge that shall not leave the navigation as full and free from all impediments as it has heretofore been, so that vessels can pass and repass with standing masts.
		Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Co., and Field v.
	supreme.justia.com /us/27/245/case.html (3814 words)

	Tacony Civic Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When William Penn arrived in 1682 to establish the City of Philadelphia, a vast area presently known as Tacony was already in existence along the Delaware River.
		Passengers to Philadelphia rode the train to Tacony, then were taken by boat to the Walnut Street wharf from the wharf at Washington Avenue, now known as Disston Street.
		Tacony was chosen for its transportation sources (railroad and dock already in place) and for that fact that this mostly undeveloped area would facilitate profitable building lots for workers, even if areas and monies were set aside for residents' needs such as streets, sewers, and a school.
	www.taconycivic.org /history.html (2150 words)

	Philly NRHS - PRR History
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered on April 13, 1846 and merged with the New York Central to form the Penn Central on February 1, 1968.
		The railroad designated the direction of travel in relation to ZOO interlocking, located between 30th Street Station and North Philadelphia Station and named for its proximity to the Philadelphia Zoo.
		The lines that serviced Philadelphia were the New York line to the north, the Main Line to the West, and the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington line to the south, as well as the Kensington and Tacony Branch, the West Chester Branch, the Chestnut Hill Branch, the Bustleton Branch, and the Belmont Connecting Railroad.
	www.trainweb.org /phillynrhs/prr.html (571 words)

	CONRAIL: Consolidated Rail Corporation
		Most of the shortline's and small railroads that went into CR did so because they were subsidiaries of the big lines that were being included.
		With the creation of CR there was no longer any reason to justify retaining the seperate corporations which were often retained for tax and insurance purposes with the railroads being operationally just another piece of their parent.
		On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
	www.rosshorwood.com /RailSiteLinksFiles/Conrail.html (1120 words)

	List by railroad lines
		Checklist number from Jefferson M. Moak, comp., Atlases of Pennsylvania: A Preliminary Checklist of County, City and Subject Atlases of Pennsylvania, typescript, 1976 [copies at Philadelphia City Archives, Free Library of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere].
		"Atlas of the Properties in the North-West Suburbs of Philadelphia, Embracing Parts of Philada., Montgomery, Delaware and Chester Counties and Properties along the Pennsylvania and Phila.
		Smith, Philadelphia to Chester and Elwyn Sta., 1889
	www.brynmawr.edu /iconog/atlaslist/RR.html (884 words)

	Old Kensington : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
		The port of Philadelphia was also booming by the mid-eighteenth century, demanding more and more dock, wharf and warehouse space along what little accessible shoreline existed.
		When organizers of the new Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad decided, with the approval of the distant state legislature, to run their tracks down the center of Front Street to their depot at Third and Willow, East and West Kensingtonians buried their differences to preserve their communities from cinder-throwing machines.
		The explosive growth and development in and around Philadelphia in the 1830s and 1840s had magnified the weaknesses of the regionâs fragmented local governance.
	www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=496 (3878 words)

	The Early Railroads--From New Jersey as a Colony and a State
		With the advancement, of the plan for a railroad there was a vigorous cry of "monopoly," a cry by no means unusual, in view of the fact that no greater monopoly ever existed than that exercised by the stage-coach proprietors.
		In spite of the failure of a syndicate of capitalists to meet their agreements relative to a lease of the joint companies, which lease, in contemplation, was used by Commodore Stockton to attract European capital, he succeeded in selling bonds, and overcame all imputations made against himself and the project that he represented.
		In 1831 the Paterson Junction Railroad Company was chartered to construct a railroad from a point on the Morris Canal for a distance of one and a half miles to intersect the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad Company at its Paterson terminal.
	catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnjrr.Html (2936 words)

	Railroad collections
		He became interested in steam-powered navigation in 1787 and for the next fifty years was active in building and promoting steam boats and trains, securing numerous patents, and inventing such important developments as the screw propeller.
		Other documents in the collection are the original 1831 articles of incorporation of the Danville and Pottsville Railroad and a carefully detailed survey and cost estimate of the Camden and Amboy Railroad done in 1830 by civil engineer John Wilson.
		Stevens' railroad, which would have propelled a 100-ton cargo at four miles per hour using a 20-horse power steam engine, was estimated by him to cost only one-third the projected outlay for the canal.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8333.htm (1619 words)

	The Underground Railroad
		The sizeable presence and influence in the valley of Quakers, America's first organized group to speak out against the evils of bondage, enabled this region to be the pacesetter regarding fl emancipation.
		Underground railroad stations that belonged to whites provide examples of interracial cooperation and goodwill.
		The stop would be known as Station A. Bordentown, known a Station B, served as a continuous connection to the line from Philadelphia to Princeton.
	www.co.burlington.nj.us /tourism/history/african/railroad.htm (227 words)

	Profile In Tacony History - Henry Disston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tacony was unofficially established as a village in the year 1846, when William H. Gatzmer secured a charter for the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad.
		Because the residents of Kensington refused to allow the railroad to pass through their community, Tacony became the railroad terminus where passengers had to board a boat to the Walnut Street warf from what is now Disston Street at the Delaware River.
		Although the great establishment founded by Henry Disston will continue to occupy the front rank it has won among the workshops of the world, it is still a serious loss to Philadelphia that he is no longer among her living citizens.
	members.aol.com /historictacony2/profile_disston.html (2214 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS - This Month in Railroad History
		Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey connected by rail.
		First daily railroad service to the Pacific Coast, without a change was between Chicago and Portland, OR, and between Chicago and San Francisco, Calif., on the Union Pacific Railroad.
		This led to his improved railroad coupler, which was credited with preventing many serious injuries among railroad workers.
	avenue.org /nrhs/histnov.htm (946 words)

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		The Michigan Central Railroad has en- gineers between New-Buffalo and Michigan city, surveying a route for the extension of that roadan arrangement having been com- pleted by which the Michigan Central Rail- road Company have contracted to extend and construct that road to Michigan city, by the let of November, 18~0.
		Bo- dine, who took his seat at Jersey City for Trenton, but put his baggage in the car for Philadelphia, was ejected at Bristol, for not paying the continuation fare ($1.~iO) instead of 7,5 cents, which is the amount charged for way passengers from Trenton to Philadelphia.
		The railroad undertaken by the American capitalists is regarded with intense interest by the English, who conceive that the profits which are sure to accrue, would authorise the construction of another route.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/scia/scia0005.sgm (19693 words)

	2005 Reports : Toward Trenton + Philadelphia-- Skate Hudson Valley
		Oct 2005: Trenton + PA to Princeton to New Brunswick
		Princeton Junction rail station: where I took the pedestrian tunnel under the railroad tracks, then took Washington Rd NW toward Princeton Boro, then after crossing Rt 1 and Stony Brook Lake, turned left onto Faculty Rd, right onto another road N into the Princeton University campus.
		Map for Trenton to Princeton Junction: Hagstrom Mercer county.
	www.roberts-1.com /sk8hv/v/2/nj/trenton/reports/05-reports.htm (1751 words)

	Railroads and Transit in Philadelphia
		Growing business on Philadelphia suburban routes led both the Pennsylvania and the Reading to electrify their suburban services during the first third of the century.
		The Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad was incorporated March 10, 1889 for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad to extend along the water front in Philadelphia, Pa., with an extension to Tacony, Pa.
		Initially the Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad had connections for interchange of traffic with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Philadelphia and Reading.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/Philadelphia1.html (1491 words)

	PA State Archives - MG-422 - Scope and Content Note - Herbert Broadbelt Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1883 Franklin Peale of the Philadelphia Museum asked Baldwin to construct a miniature locomotive for exhibition at his museum.
		The success of this model, and the subsequent construction of a full scale locomotive for the Philadelphia, Germantown, & Norristown Railroad, led to further requests for locomotives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Reading Railroad Company, and the Philadelphia & Trenton Railroad Company, among others.
		The collection is housed at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 Gap Road, Route 741 East, Strasburg, PA 17579 and inquiries should be directed to either the Site Administrator or Curator at (717) 687-8628.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /Bah/DAM/mg/mg422.htm (327 words)

	Reading Phillies Baseball Club - Celebrating 40 Seasons
		The city of Reading has long been renowned for it's railroad industry.
		Anyone who has ever played the game of Monopoly has heard of the Reading Railroad.
		One of the signature aspects of First Energy Stadium is the still active train tracks that pass through the stadium parking lots.
	www.readingphillies.com /stadium_railroad.htm (124 words)

	Germantown Passenger Rail Way Company 1890's - Florence Nightingale Vignette
		Railroads - Company names from A - E
		TRACTION NOTES A stage coach drawn by two horses was the beginning of Philadelphia's present transit system.
		Timeline 1858 In May, 1857, the Philadelphia and Delaware River Railroad was chartered, giving the right to build a road from Philadelphia to Frankford, upon which cars drawn by horses could be used.
	www.scripophily.net /gerpasrailwa.html (5045 words)

	Philadelphia: Maps
		The full view of the city of Philadelphia and its attractions.
		This is an ineractive map of Downtown Philadelphia.
		This map shows the railroadlines fron SEPTA and Rail Transit from trenton NJ down to Philadelphia International Airport.
	www.citimaps.com /philadelphia/maps.html (117 words)

	Find history in ArchiveGrid: ConRail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Scholars searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
		Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company - Stocks - 19th century
		Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company - Stocks - 19th century
	archivegrid.org /ag/lps/lp159.html (310 words)

	Trenton Historical Society, New Jersey
		Like many other aging American towns, Trenton has too many buildings that have been neglected or abandoned.
		As of 2005, the city of Trenton had 23 buildings, 3 districts and 3 other sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places:
		The Trenton Historical Society, with the assistance of the New Jersey Historical Commission and Hunter Research, Inc., has proposed the creation of a new National Register District in part of South Trenton.
	trentonhistory.org /Buildings.htm (278 words)

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