Main Line of Public Works
The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Built between 1826 and 1834 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it established the Pennsylvania Canal System, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
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Main Line of Public Works
The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Built between 1826 and 1834 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it established the Pennsylvania Canal System, the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
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The Main Line of Public Works ...... would have proved too costly.
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A network of east-west canals ...... ranklin to the larger network.
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Clinton, DeWitt Jr.
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Clinton, DeWitt Jr.
Pennsylvania Canal Commission
White, Canvas; Geddes, James
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Map of historic Pennsylvania canals and connecting railroads
Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, April 2010
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Sold to Pennsylvania Railroad ...... ear Harrisburg, closed in 1901
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Summit of the Allegheny Portage Railroad through Blair Gap
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The Eastern Division Canal had ...... , and the Western Division 68.
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Canals abandoned except for hi ...... part of the Keystone Corridor.
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The Main Line of Public Works ...... Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
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