Letter to the Western and Pacific Railroad Companies, 1871.
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Scott, Thomas Alexander, 1823-1881
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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1852 to connect Fayetteville with the coal regions of Moore County, N.C.; consolidated with Mt. Airy Railroad Company in 1879 to form Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Company. From the description of Records, 1858-1879 (bulk 1877-1879). (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28414169 ...
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...
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