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The Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York Railroad was a paper railroad of the 1870s, vaguely projected to construct a new line between Baltimore and New York via Philadelphia. It did very little construction work, except for a few miles of grading from Relay House, on the Northern Central Railroad , through Towson, Maryland to the Gunpowder River .
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 loss of travel through Pennsylvania due to projects such as ...
The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad (reporting mark NYP&N) was a railroad that owned and operated a line that ran down the spine of the Delmarva Peninsula from Delmar, Maryland to Cape Charles, Virginia and then by ferry to Norfolk, Virginia. It became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. [1]
The home in the 300 block of Philadelphia Road in Philadelphia where two people were killed Thursday. One other person was killed in Ashland and the suspect took his own life in Jacksonville.
Founded as the Jewish Hospital for the Aged, Infirmed and Destitute (Jewish Hospital for short) in August 1864, this hospital was an important institution in the history of the Jews in Philadelphia, providing care for "the suffering poor of all religions". It officially opened in 1866, starting with 22 beds at 56th and Haverford Road in West ...
Mower General Hospital was one of the largest Federal military hospitals during the American Civil War.Located across from the Reading Railroad depot in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, [1] it operated from January 1863 through May 1865, and was closed with the cessation of the war.
Suffolk County’s investigation led authorities to three locations: a home on Railroad Avenue in Amityville, a wooded area across from Lakeway Drive in West Babylon and Bethpage State Park in ...
Its only formidable rival was the New York Central Railroad (NYC), which carried around three-quarters of the Pennsy's ton-miles. In 1968, the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with New York Central and the railroad eventually went by the name of Penn Central Transportation Company, or "Penn Central" for short.