The Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road had…
1833 CE
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road had been chartered April 4, 1833 to build a line between its namesake cities, Philadelphia and Reading, alongside the Schuylkill River.
The part from Reading to Norristown had opened July 16, 1838, and the full line opens December 9, 1839. (Fifty-four years later, the the company’s failure will lead to a stock market and banking collapse, the Panic of 1893.)
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