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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad abstract "The Pickering Valley Railroad was a short line railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It ran from Phoenixville to Byers, near Eagle, in Upper Uwchlan Township, a distance of approximately 11 miles (18 km). The company was incorporated June 4, 1869, under the provisions of a special act of the Pennsylvania government approved April 3, 1869, and organized June 22, 1869, with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company subscribing to the bulk of the stock. In or about 1870, the still-unbuilt railroad was leased to the Reading Railroad; it opened in September 1871.The railroad's principal business was as a \"milk run\" line, transporting agricultural products from local farms to Phoenixville, for connections with other railroad lines; it also carried iron ore from nearby mines to the Phoenix Iron Company in Phoenixville. It played a role in the development of the area's graphite mining industry as well. The company was not a financial success: revenues barely covered operating costs, leaving nothing to pay to the investors (an 1882 newspaper editorial complained that the company's stock was \"worthless\"). When the lease expired in 1906, the line was more formally merged into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad system, becoming known as the Pickering Valley Branch of the Reading.Passenger service was discontinued in 1934, and the portion of the line from Kimberton to Byers was abandoned in 1948. The remaining track served the Phoenix steel mill (a portion was also briefly used by the Valley Forge Scenic Railroad) until abandoned by Conrail (successor to the Reading) in the 1980s. Little remains of the line today".
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Abandoned_railway.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:1869_establishments_in_Pennsylvania.
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Chester_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Conrail.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Delaware_River_and_Lancaster_Railroad.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Eagle,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink File:Pickering_Val._RR_track_Pxvl.jpg.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Pennypacker.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Phoenix_Iron_Works_(Phoenixville,_Pennsylvania).
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Phoenixville,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Railroad_classes.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Reading_Company.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Supreme_Court_of_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Upper_Uwchlan_Township,_Chester_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Washout.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Yellow_Springs,_Pennsylvania.
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pickering Valley Railroad".
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad endYear "1906".
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad hqCity Philadelphia.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad hqCity Phoenixville,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad locale Pennsylvania.
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad railroadName "Pickering Valley Railroad".
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad startYear "1871".
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad successorLine Reading_Company.
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:1869_establishments_in_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Companies_affiliated_with_the_Reading_Company.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Companies_based_in_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Predecessors_of_Conrail.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Railroads_transferred_to_Conrail.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1906.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1869.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1871.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad subject Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_the_United_States.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad hypernym Railroad.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad type PublicTransitSystem.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad comment "The Pickering Valley Railroad was a short line railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It ran from Phoenixville to Byers, near Eagle, in Upper Uwchlan Township, a distance of approximately 11 miles (18 km). The company was incorporated June 4, 1869, under the provisions of a special act of the Pennsylvania government approved April 3, 1869, and organized June 22, 1869, with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company subscribing to the bulk of the stock.".
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad label "Pickering Valley Railroad".
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- Pickering_Valley_Railroad wasDerivedFrom Pickering_Valley_Railroad?oldid=680795919.
- Pickering_Valley_Railroad depiction Pickering_Val._RR,_Kimberton_Sta..jpg.
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