The History of it All

The following are links which you may click to, to learn more about the beginnings of certain railways in Pennsylvania. In time there will be pages within the pages that refer you to some of the men that started the railroads and the inventions in which they made to help the railroad on it's lifelong journey into the future, until then there names are just underlined.

The Beginnings of the Railroad in Pennsylvania

• Gravity Locomotives

• Steam Locomotives

• The Railroad Boom

• The Beginning of Modern Day Rails

• The Conclusion

The Beginnings of the Pennsylvania Railroad

• Becoming Bigger

• Moving Eastward

• Coming Together and Growing Better

• American Railroad, No More

The Beginnings of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RailRoad

The Beginnings of the Reading Railroad

The Beginnings of the Union Railroad

The Beginnings of the Lehigh Valley Railroad

The Beginnings of the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

The South Pennsylvania Railroad

• The West Shore Railroad
• Invasion!!

The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company

The Lackawanna Railroad

The Central Railroad of New Jersey

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