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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works abstract "The Main Line of Public Works was a state funded and built railroad and canal system across southern Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh that included the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Pennsylvania Canal system created in response to the advent and success of the Lehigh Navigations and the Erie Canals. The rail portions of the system were authorized in 1828 by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly entitled An act relative to the Pennsylvania Canal, and to provide for the commencement of a Railroad to be constructed at the expense of the state and to be styled "The Pennsylvania Railroad" (Act of March 24, 1828, Pamph. Laws, p. 221).Built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during a time when America's main coastal cities were vying to become the most important and influential port from the mid-1820s, it was an attempt by business interests to position their own port city to be the principal supplier and beneficiary of the economic boom expected from the new markets and resources, all resulting from the great wave of post revolutionary war immigration taking place westwards to the Ohio Country and Northwest Territory regions in the 19th century. It was also a plan to enable the newly opened Coal Region and the initial mines in the Wyoming Valley to provide clean burning Anthracite to eastern cities that were increasingly having trouble finding heating fuels as eastern forests had become scarce and logged over.Begun with Navigations construction along the Susquehanna and the West Fork of the Susquehanna with surveys for the best route over the barrier of the northern Allegheny Mountains, the system in time ran from Philadelphia on the Delaware estuary westwards across the great plain of southern Pennsylvania (goal of connecting the Susquehanna to New York City via canals) through Harrisburg and across the state to Pittsburgh and connected with other divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal. It consisted of the following principal sections, moving from east to west:Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad: 82 miles (132 km) from Philadelphia to Columbia near the former ferry site known as Wright's Ferry, in Lancaster County. Originally expected to be a bona fide canal in the 1820s conception, the easternmost leg of the Pennsylvania Canal was to be a continuation of the first funded and more difficult to construct engineering navigations and construction farther west in less populated rural regions. The canal joining the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers was to run across the most populated expanse of Pennsylvania's Great Valley region (and so was delayed politically in part) but its planning was overtaken by the growth of railroad technology, which by the mid-1830s had demonstrated sufficient promise to adopt the new technology for the leg of the capability and funding and construction was shifted to a railroad—it was faster and cheaper to build above ground and make bridges than it was to dig a deep ditch and provide it with reliable water supplies to enable two way barge traffic. Eastern Division Canal: 43 miles (69 km) from Columbia to Duncan's Island at the mouth of the Juniata River.Juniata Division Canal: 127 miles (204 km) from Duncan's Island to HollidaysburgAllegheny Portage Railroad: 36 miles (58 km) from Hollidaysburg to JohnstownWestern Division Canal: 103 miles (166 km) from Johnstown to the terminus in Pittsburgh.The canals reduced travel time between Philadelphia to Pittsburgh from at least 23 days to just four.The Main Line of Public Works was completed in 1834 and was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad on June 25, 1857 for $7,500,000 which within a year had replaced the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh route with an entirely rail based system.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works company Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works elevation "707.7456".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works endPoint Pittsburgh.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Allegheny_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Ashley_Planes.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Codorus_Navigation.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Delaware_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Lehigh_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Lehigh_and_Susquehanna_Railroad.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Monongahela_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Ohio_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Pennsylvania_Canal_(Susquehanna_Division).
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Schuylkill_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Susquehanna_and_Tidewater_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Transportation_in_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasJunctionWith Union_Canal_(Pennsylvania).
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works riverBranch Wiconisco_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works riverBranchOf Pennsylvania_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works startPoint Philadelphia.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works thumbnail Pennsylvania_canals.png?width=300.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageExternalLink index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=259.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageExternalLink www.americancanals.org.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageExternalLink index.htm.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageID "2124527".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works wikiPageRevisionID "600669218".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works added "1974-09-17".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works added "1982-11-14".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works added "2002-02-20".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works alt "A network of east-west canals and connecting railroads spanned Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. North-south canals connecting with this east-west canal ran between West Virginia and Lake Erie on the west, Maryland and New York in the center, and along the border with Delaware and New Jersey on the east. Many shorter canals connected cities such as York, Port Carbon, and Franklin to the larger network.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works architectOrBuilder "Clinton, DeWitt Jr.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works architecture "Other, Canal".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works branch "Wiconisco Canal, Kittanning Feeder, Allegheny Outlet".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works branchOf "Pennsylvania Canal".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works builder "Pennsylvania Canal Commission".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works builder "White, Canvas; Geddes, James".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works built "1830".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works caption "Map of historic Pennsylvania canals and connecting railroads".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works caption "Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, April 2010".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works company "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works dateAct "1826".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works dateClosed "Sold to Pennsylvania Railroad in 1857; last canal segment, near Harrisburg, closed in 1901".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works dateComp "1834".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works dateConst "1828".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works elev "2322".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works elevNote "Summit of the Allegheny Portage Railroad".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works end "Pittsburgh".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works governingBody "Federal".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works governingBody "Private".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works hasPhotoCollection Main_Line_of_Public_Works.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Allegheny_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Ashley_Planes.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Codorus_Navigation.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Delaware_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Lehigh_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Lehigh_and_Susquehanna_Railroad.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Monongahela_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Ohio_River.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Pennsylvania_Canal_(Susquehanna_Division).
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Schuylkill_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Susquehanna_and_Tidewater_Canal.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Transportation_in_Lancaster_County,_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works join Union_Canal_(Pennsylvania).
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works location "1.5".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works location "Along the Conemaugh River, Bell, Derry, and Loyalhanna Townships".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works location "Along the Conemaugh River, Bolivar, Derry Township, and Fairfield Township".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works lockNote "The Eastern Division Canal had 14 locks, the Juniata Division 86, and the Western Division 68.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works locks "168".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works locmapin "Pennsylvania".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works name "Main Line of Public Works".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works name "Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, Canal Section".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works name "Western Division of the PA Canal".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works name "Western Division-Pennsylvania Canal".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works refnum "2000069".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works refnum "74001817".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works refnum "82001537".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works start "Philadelphia".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works status "Canals abandoned except for historic and recreational segments. Many railroad segments survive as part of the Keystone Corridor.".
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works subject Category:Canals_in_Pennsylvania.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works subject Category:Defunct_Pennsylvania_railroads.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works subject Category:Predecessors_of_the_Pennsylvania_Railroad.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works subject Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1857%3C!--this_is_when_the_state_sold_the_property_to_the_PRR--%3E.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1828%3C!--this_appears_to_be_when_it_was_authorized--%3E.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Abstraction100002137.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Business108061042.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Carrier108057633.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Company108058098.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type DefunctPennsylvaniaRailroads.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Enterprise108056231.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Group100031264.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Institution108053576.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type Railway104048568.
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- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type YagoLegalActor.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Main_Line_of_Public_Works type BodyOfWater.