The Peach Bottom Railway was a 19th century 3 foot narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, designed to haul coal from the Broad Top fields in central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, but it succeeded only in establishing two local short lines. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Peach Bottom Railway was a 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, designed to haul coal from the Broad Top fields in central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, but succeeded only in establishing two local short lines.
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1881
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The Peach Bottom Railway was a 19th-century 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, designed to haul coal from the Broad Top fields in central Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, but succeeded only in establishing two local short lines.
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The railway was chartered on March 24, 1868 and planned in three divisions.
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