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History of rail transport in Philadelphia and Schuylkill River

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Difference between History of rail transport in Philadelphia and Schuylkill River

History of rail transport in Philadelphia vs. Schuylkill River

Philadelphia was an early railroad hub, with lines from all over meeting in Philadelphia. The Schuylkill River is an important river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal.

Similarities between History of rail transport in Philadelphia and Schuylkill River

History of rail transport in Philadelphia and Schuylkill River have 11 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anthracite, Coal Region, Delaware River, Erie Canal, Main Line of Public Works, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Reading Company, Reading, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill Canal, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Anthracite

Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.

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Coal Region

The Coal Region is a historically important coal-mining area in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Ridge-and-valley Appalachian Mountains, comprising Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill, Northumberland, and the extreme northeast corner of Dauphin counties.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).

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Main Line of Public Works

The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a company that was involved in the railroad industry in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until 1976.

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Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading (Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Schuylkill Canal

Schuylkill Canal is the common, but technically inaccurate, name for the Schuylkill Navigation, a 19th-century commercial waterway in and along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Schuylkill County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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History of rail transport in Philadelphia and Schuylkill River Comparison

History of rail transport in Philadelphia has 37 relations, while Schuylkill River has 132. As they have in common 11, the Jaccard index is 6.51% = 11 / (37 + 132).

References

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