The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third-rail-equipped interurban electric railroad incorporated on May 21, 1902 to serve the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, running between the 69th Street Terminal and Norristown with a branch to Strafford. The Strafford branch was abandoned in 1956 and a portion of its right-of-way in Radnor Township is now the Radnor Trail; the company was sold to the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, operator of the Red Arrow Lines, in 1954, and its remaining line survives today as SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line. 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 Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-equipped, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-equipped, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia and Western Railway was incorporated on May 21, 1902, with capital stock of $450,000 (equal to $16,745,192 today), and was originally planned as the eastern link of a transcontinental railroad connecting to the Western Maryland Railroad at York.
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