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Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
was an early
shortline railroad
from
Philadelphia
to
Columbia
,
Pennsylvania
, built with a western terminal near the former ferry site known as Wright's Ferry, in
Lancaster County
, where it met with
navigations
and improvements on the
Susquehanna River
east bank approximately miles south of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
. Many of its rights-of-way were obtained by the actions of the
Pennsylvania Canal Commission
which operated the railroad under the various enabling acts of the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1857 the Railroad and most of the
Pennsylvania Canal
system was sold to the
Pennsylvania Railroad
as one of the properties legally denoted as the
Main Line of Public Works
which included properties of the Pennsylvania Canal Commission as far west as
Pittsburgh
and the
Allegheny Portage Railroad
.
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