The South Pennsylvania Railroad is the name given to two proposed but never completed Pennsylvania railroads in the nineteenth-century. Parts of the right of way for the second South Pennsylvania Railroad were reused for the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Read more about South Pennsylvania Railroad: Initial Promotions, Pennsylvania Turnpike
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