The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 to establish a means of transporting freight...
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The Pennsylvania Railroad built its main line during the early 19th century as part of the Main Line of Public Works that spanned Pennsylvania. Later in...
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Pittsburgh Line. The eastern part of the PRR's main line (east of Lancaster) was built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Main Line of Public Works:...
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Pennsylvania Canal (category Canals on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania)
started in Reading and ended in Middletown. By 1834, the Main Line of Public Works, a system of interlocking canals, railways, and inclined planes, was...
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Pennsylvania Railroad (redirect from President of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
the PRR purchased the Main Line of Public Works from the state of Pennsylvania. This purchase included 275 miles (443 km) of canal, the Philadelphia...
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Allegheny Mountains (redirect from Fauna of the Allegheny Mountains)
had been built as part of the Main Line of Public Works, then abandoned.) With a flow rate that temporarily equalled that of the Mississippi River, the...
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Pennsylvania Canal (Susquehanna Division) (category Lists of coordinates)
The Susquehanna Canal of the Pennsylvania Canal System was funded and authorized as part of the 1826 Main Line of Public Works enabling act, and would...
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by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the canal system to be used as a reservoir for the state's Main Line of Public Works canal basin in Johnstown...
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Land grant (redirect from Grant of Land)
Revolution was guided by many supportive acts of legislatures (for example, the Main Line of Public Works legislation of 1863) promoting commerce or transportation...
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Allegheny Portage Railroad (category Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
part of the Main Line of Public Works legislation in 1824. It had five inclines on either side of the drainage divide running athwart the ridge line from...
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Paoli, Pennsylvania (category Philadelphia Main Line)
nearby Malvern, Pennsylvania.[citation needed] The construction of the Main Line of Public Works across Pennsylvania enhanced the village's stature, as the...
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Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (category Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
under the various enabling acts of the Pennsylvania legislature known as the Main Line of Public Works in support of a far sighted plan to link the whole...
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List of highways classified as federal roads which are under the administration of the federal Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR). List of highways...
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Pennsylvania Canal Tunnel was the Pittsburgh terminus of the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works, a transportation system that involved other early tunnels...
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Schuylkill River (category Protected areas of Berks County, Pennsylvania)
funded three decades of investment from Illinois to the Atlantic Ocean, including the ambitious 1824 Main Line of Public Works bill to connect Philadelphia...
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funded the canal construction as part of the broad sweeping commercial initiative called the Main Line of Public Works; a forward looking project designing...
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Cumberland Valley Railroad (category Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
originally chartered in 1831 to connect with Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works. Freight and passenger service in the Cumberland Valley in south...
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England. It is currently one of two main line railway routes between London and Birmingham; the other is the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and...
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Beaver and Erie Canal (category Lists of coordinates)
Pennsylvania that would connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River; the Main Line of Public Works, a canal which joined Philadelphia to Pittsburgh; and the Erie...
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Monongahela River (category Tributaries of the Ohio River)
Canal of Pennsylvania's principal east–west canal and railroad system, the Main Line of Public Works. In 1897, the federal government took possession of the...
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Kilmainham Gaol (category Defunct prisons in the Republic of Ireland)
museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising...
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The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a 393-mile long (632 km) electrified railway between its northern terminus at Edinburgh Waverley and southern terminus...
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to Germantown. At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, part of the Main Line of Public Works, opened for travel to the...
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The Office of Public Works (OPW) (Irish: Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí; legally the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland) is a major Irish Government...
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Street Station in Philadelphia. The line was originally part of Pennsylvania's "Main Line of Public Works", a series of canals and railroads to connect Philadelphia...
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The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow...
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originally the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, part of the state-owned Main Line of Public Works. From Lancaster west to Harrisburg, the tracks were laid...
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Little Conemaugh River (category Rivers of Pennsylvania)
Pennsylvania Main Line Canals with the western terminus of the portage railroad at Johnstown. Created as part of the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works, the...
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East West Rail (redirect from East West Main Line)
East West Rail (or East West Main Line, EWML) is a strategic aim to establish a new main line railway between East Anglia and Oxfordshire, with potential...
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