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South of the state line, the road continues as unsigned Maryland Route 896 (MD 896) for 0.21 mi (0.34 km), and then enters Delaware as Delaware Route 896 (DE 896) toward Newark. The northern terminus is at PA 340 in the East Lampeter Township community of Smoketown , just east of the city of Lancaster .
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Pennsylvania Route 18: Erie-Lincoln Highway (1927) Pennsylvania Route 19: Lewistown - Scranton, Anthracite Trail (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 22: Keystone Trail (1927) Pennsylvania Route 24: Washington-Harrisburg Route (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 33: Lykens Valley Trail (1927) Pennsylvania Route 41: Reading - Harrisburg (after 1924)
The P&C also encouraged the businessmen of Strasburg, who built the Strasburg Railroad from the Philadelphia and Columbia at Leaman Place to Strasburg in 1837. [6] Transformed from a freight line to a tourist railroad in the 1950s, [ 6 ] it is now one of the county's most popular tourist attractions.
Pennsylvania Route 741 (Main Street) passes through the center of the borough, leading east 9 miles (14 km) to Gap and west 5.5 miles (8.9 km) to Willow Street. Pennsylvania Route 896 crosses the northeast side of Strasburg; it leads north 3 miles (5 km) to U.S. Route 30 and southeast 20 miles (32 km) to U.S. Route 1.
PA Routes are also called Pennsylvania Traffic Routes, and formerly State Highway Routes. [ 2 ] There are 41,643 mi (67,018 km) of roadway maintained by state agencies, with 39,737 mi (63,951 km) maintained by PennDOT, 554 mi (892 km) maintained by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission , and 1,352 mi (2,176 km) maintained by other state agencies.
In late 1926, the route from West Virginia to Philadelphia (using the new route west of Pittsburgh) was assigned US 30, while the rest of the Lincoln Highway and PA 1 became part of US 1. The PA 1 designation was gone by 1929, [ 13 ] but several branches from east to west— PA 101 , PA 201 , PA 301, PA 401 , PA 501 , and PA 601 —had been ...
Strasburg RR in 2004. Strasburg Rail Road is a shortline railroad that connects the town of Strasburg with Amtrak's Keystone Corridor mainline. The line is used for excursion trains, which carry passengers on a 45-minute round-trip journey from East Strasburg to Leaman Place Junction through nearly 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) in southeastern Lancaster County.