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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works abstract "The Main Line of Public Works was a railroad and canal system across southern Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Built between 1826 and 1834 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it included the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Pennsylvania Canal system.The system was built at the urging of Philadelphia businessmen, who were vying with other coastal cities to become the United States' most important and influential port as the country's population expanded westward to the Ohio Country and Northwest Territory regions. The system would also open access to the newly opened Coal Region and the initial mines in the Wyoming Valley, which provided clean-burning anthracite coal to eastern cities that had already consumed much of the eastern forests for heating fuel.The rail portions of the system were authorized in 1828 by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly entitled An act relative to the Pennsylvania Canal, and to provide for the commencement of a Railroad to be constructed at the expense of the state and to be styled "The Pennsylvania Railroad" (Act of March 24, 1828, Pamph. Laws, p. 221).Begun with Navigations construction along the Susquehanna and the West Fork of the Susquehanna with surveys for the best route over the barrier of the northern Allegheny Mountains, the system in time ran from Philadelphia on the Delaware estuary westwards across the great plain of southern Pennsylvania (goal of connecting the Susquehanna to New York City via canals) through Harrisburg and across the state to Pittsburgh and connected with other divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal. It consisted of the following principal sections, moving from east to west:Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad: 82 miles (132 km) from Philadelphia to Columbia near the former ferry site known as Wright's Ferry, in Lancaster County. Originally expected to be a bona fide canal in the 1820s conception, the easternmost leg of the Pennsylvania Canal was to be a continuation of the first funded and more difficult to construct engineering navigations and construction farther west in less populated rural regions. The canal joining the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers was to run across the most populated expanse of Pennsylvania's Great Valley region (and so was delayed politically in part) but its planning was overtaken by the growth of railroad technology, which by the mid-1830s had demonstrated sufficient promise to adopt the new technology for the leg of the capability and funding and construction was shifted to a railroad—it was faster and cheaper to build above ground and make bridges than it was to dig a deep ditch and provide it with reliable water supplies to enable two way barge traffic. Eastern Division Canal: 43 miles (69 km) from Columbia to Duncan's Island at the mouth of the Juniata River.Juniata Division Canal: 127 miles (204 km) from Duncan's Island to HollidaysburgAllegheny Portage Railroad: 36 miles (58 km) from Hollidaysburg to JohnstownWestern Division Canal: 103 miles (166 km) from Johnstown to the terminus in Pittsburgh.The canals reduced travel time between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from at least 23 days to just four.The Main Line of Public Works was completed in 1834 and was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad on June 25, 1857, for $7,500,000. Within a year, the PRR replaced the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh route with an entirely rail-based system.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works company Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works elevation "707.7456".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works endPoint Pittsburgh.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Ashley_Planes.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Codorus_Navigation.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Lehigh_Canal.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Monongahela_River.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Pennsylvania_Canal_(Susquehanna_Division).
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Transportation_in_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works startPoint Philadelphia.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Chester_County,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Cohoquinoque_Creek.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Columbia,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Granville_Township,_Mifflin_County,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Kittanning,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Lewistown,_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink List_of_canals_in_the_United_States.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Lock_(water_transport).
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Loyalhanna_Township,_Westmoreland_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Market_Street_Bridge_(Philadelphia).
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink National_Register_of_Historic_Places.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Canal_(Delaware_Division).
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Canal_Tunnel.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Railroad.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Rosemont,_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageWikiLink Saltsburg,_Pennsylvania.