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• History of public transportation in Philadelphia (Urban Traffic and Transportation Board, 1956), by William 0 Adams and Philadelphia (Pa.). Urban Traffic and Transportation Board (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of public transportation in Philadelphia (Urban Traffic and Transportation Board, 1956), by William 0 Adams and Philadelphia (Pa.). Urban Traffic and Transportation Board (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Report. (Philadelphia, in the 19th century), by Philadelphia People's Passenger Railway Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Rail-road convention, assembled at Harrisburg, March 6, 1838. (P. Hay & co., printers, 1838), by Harrisburg Railroad convention (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad consolidations and the state of Pennsylvania : a study of the probable effects of grouping of railroads proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission upon the varied interests of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?, 1930), by Howard C. Kidd and Pennsylvania. Public Service Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of a railway judiciously constructed between desirable points. (E. Hedge, 1841), by Egbert Hedge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief view of the system of internal improvement of the state of Pennsylvania. (Printed by L. Bailey, 1831), by Mathew Carey and Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania. : Or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture (W.P. Hazard, 1852), by Eli Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the select committee : appointed to investigate the expenditures upon the canals and railroads of this state, accompanied with the minority report and testimony upon the subject. Read in the House of representatives, April 16, 1841. (J. S. Wallace, printer, 1841), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee appointed to investigate the expenditures upon the canals and railroads of the state (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal Improvement, relative to the use of the rail-ways of the commonwealth (Printed by Welsh and Patterson, 1835), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the citizens of Philadelphia relative to the rail road to Erie, and of the convention at Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa. (Printed by J. Thompson, 1836), by Philadelphia. Citizens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the relative commercial progress of the cities of New-York & Philadelphia, tracing the decline of the latter to state development, and showing the necessity of trans-Atlantic steamship communication to re-establish foreign trade (Jackson, printer, 1859), by G W. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the proposed railroads from Phoenixville to Cornwall, and from Cornwall to Pinegrove (King & Baird, printers, 1852), by William Hasell Wilson and King & Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws, ordinances and documents, relating to the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company : down to July 1, 1845. ([Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company], 1845), by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The railway problem. Address of Mr. Franklin B. Gowen, on the position which the city of Philadelphia should occupy to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to its transportation lines, and to the railway problem of the day. (Jackson bros., printers, 1881), by Franklin B. Gowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private police, with special reference to Pennsylvania (The American academy of political and social science, 1933), by J. P. Shalloo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings connected with the formal opening of the Somerset and Cambria Railroad, including the banquet at Johnstown, Pa. on November 3, 1881. (Steam Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1882), by Somerset and Cambria Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir of Clarks Summit - Hallstead cut-off inspection trip, January 22nd, 1914. (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1914), by Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (The Company, 1847), by Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speech of Samuel P. Lyman of Utica : at the convention of delegates, held at Ithaca, July 11th, 1839, on the subject of the New York and Erie Rail Road. (Printed by Narine & Co., 1839), by S. P. Lyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia's great north route : North Pennsylvania Railroad, to connect Philadelphia with North Pennsylvania, Western New York, the Lakes and Canada West. (Philadelphia, Brown's Steam Power Book, Card, and Job Printing Office, 1853., 1853), by North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Thomas S. Fernon, and Pa.) Brown's Steam Power Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs 1875-1899/1900 (Harrisburg, 1860), by Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. (Harrisburg, 1909), by Pennsylvania. Railroad Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Prof. Edward D. Mansfield to Job R. Tyson, Esq., LL.D. of Philadelphia (J. C. Clark, printer, 1853), by Edward Deering Mansfield and Job R. Tyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports on the Conneat & Beaver & Beaver & Conneaut Railroads ... (Wm. Henry, printer, 1836), by W. K. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act to incorporate the Hempfield Rail Road Company, with the supplements thereto, and the act of the Virginia Legislature, granting the right of way through that state. (J.C. Clark, 1853), by Pennsylvania and Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in equity; William P. Sharpless, John Hebler, and others, vs. the mayor, aldermen and citizens of Philadelphia, and Charles Gilpin, mayor of the city of Philadelphia ... ([Philadelphia, 1853), by William P. Sharpless, John Hebler, and Philadelphia (Pa.). Citizens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamphlets on railroads in Pennsylvania. ([n.p.], 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Morgages and other documents of teh Lehigh valley railroad company and subsidiary companies] (;, 1866), by Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania (Willis P. Hazard, 1852), by Eli Bowen and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Central rail road : reports of the engineers of the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company ; with the report of the committee of the board thereon, October 15, 1831. (Printed by Clark & Raser, 1833), by Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company, Moncure Robinson, and Francis W. Rawle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information on questions about Conrail's service in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, area : Report (General Accounting Office, 1978), by United States General Accounting Office and ConRail (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report of Charles L. Schlatter, principle engineer in the service of the state of Pennsylvania, to the canal commissioners, relative to the continuous railroad form Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Read in Senate, Jan. 15, 1841. (Elliot & M'Curdy, printers, 1841), by Charles L. Schlatter and Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibit of the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie railroad company, (formerly the Little Schuylkill and Susquehanna,) and the proposed completion of the road to Williamsport, Lycoming County, in the state of Pennsylvania -- March, 1851. ([S.l., 1851), by Williamsport & Erie Railroad Company Catawissa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lease : the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, October 25th, 1871 : to take effect December 1st, 1871. (Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1874), by Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company and Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplementary report from a minority of the committee read in the House of Representatives, April 5, 1833 (Printed by Henry Welsh, 1833), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal Improvement, Bernard Connelly, Thomas Ashbridge, and Thomas H. Burrowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resources of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad region, in letters to the Erie daily dispatch (Dispatch steam printing company, 1868), by John C. Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the subject of the sale of the main line of the public improvements owned by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania (McLaughlin Brothers' Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by Edward McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of surveys made for a through traffic railway from the middle and southern anthracite coal fields, of Pennsylvania, to New York Bay (Printed by Bannan & Ramsey, 1868), by R. A. Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the receivers 1880, 1885 (Philadelphia., in the 19th century), by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co, Reading Company, and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the board of directors of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Company to the stockholders 1898-1910 (American Bank Note Company, 1894), by Susquehanna New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Auditor General ... and of the tabulations and deductions from the reports of the railroad, canal, and telegraph companies. (Harrisburg, 1860), by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-laws of the Board of Managers of the Sunbury & Erie Railroad Company : together with the charter and its supplements. (Crissy & Markley, printers, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street, 1858), by Sunbury and Erie Rail Road Company and Crissy & Markley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report ... for the year. (Harrisburg, Pa., 1908), by Pennsylvania. Railroad Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of the several railroad companies of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, 1860), by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prospectus of the West Chester and Phoenixville Railroad Company. Issued for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages to be derived by constructing a railroad from West Chester to Phoenixville in three divisions ... (Allen, Lane & Scott's Printing House, 1879), by West Chester and Phoenixville Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sale of the public works of Pennsylvania (A. Boyd Hamilton, State printer, 1854), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Select Committee Relative to the Sale of the Public Works and A. Boyd Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Company : for the year ending ... (Stevenson, Foster & Co., 1878), by Pennsylvania Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of railroads in Pennsylvania : including the law relating to street railways (T.& J.W. Johnson & Co., 1893), by Albert B. Weimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articles of association ... February 1st, 1906. ([Philadelphia, 1906), by Pennsylvania general freight equipment trust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articles of association, dated 1st November, 1905. Supplementary agreement, dated 1st June, 1906, amending the above Articles of association, to increase the limit of profits from three and one-half per cent, to four per cent, per annum. (Allen, Lane & Scott, 1905), by Pennsylvania steel equipment improvement trust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acts of Assembly relating to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company : the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company, the Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad Company, and the Columbia Bridge Company : (Review Printing House, 1881), by Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agreement, made this first day of January, 1870, between the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, of the first part, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, of the second part -- ([Philadelphia?, 1870), by Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company and Pennsylvania Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act of incorporation of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company : with the supplements, and the general rail road law of Pennsylvania. (Kite & Walton, printers, 1854), by Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Co and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Reports no.176 - no.181] (s.n., 1829), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philadelphia and Wilkesbarre short line railroad. : an act to incorporate "The Council Ridge and White Haven Railroad Company." Approved March 10th, 1859. To which is prefixed a statement respecting the proposed road (Crissy & Markley, printers, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street., 1859), by Council Ridge and White Haven Railroad Company, Solomon W. Roberts, and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the subscribers, a committee of the "Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth" ([Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1825], 1825), by Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth and Samuel Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania section of the Erie and Cleveland Railroad : exhibit of the condition and prospects of the railroad authorised to be constructed by the Franklin Canal Company. (New York : Printed by William W. Rose, stationer, 1851., 1851), by Franklin Canal Company and Erie and Cleveland Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of the feasibility of a regional railroad system for northwest Pennsylvania (Dept. of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Office of Transportation Systems Analysis and Information ;, 1977), by D E. Matzzie, R. Feder, and United States. Office of Transportation Systems Analysis and Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the president and directors of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-Road Company (Printed by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street., 1849), by Solomon W. Roberts, John C. Clark, and Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-Road Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief statement of facts, in regard to the Venango Railroad : together with the act of incorporation. ([Franklin?, Venango County, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1853], 1853), by Venango Railroad Company and Pennsylvania. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act to repeal the state tax on real and personal property and to continue and extend the improvements of the state by railroads and canals, and to charter a state bank to be called the United States Bank. (Printed by Theo. Fenn, 1836), by Pennsylvania. General Assembly, Theophilus Fenn, and Samuel L. Southard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tabular statement of the cost, revenue and expenditures, of the several finished lines of the canals and railroads of the Commonwealth (Elliott & McCurdy, 1841), by John W. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq. : before the Joint Committee of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 29th and 30th, 1875, on behalf of said Company (Press of Helfenstein, Lewis & Greene, 1875), by Franklin B. Gowen, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan of reorganization of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co. and affiliated companies : as amended December 14th, 1886. (Allen, Lane & Scott, printers, 1886), by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints for the Representatives of the country. (Publisher not identified, 1830), by Pennsylvania Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select Committee appointed on the 18th February last, to inquire into and report a system of management of the Philadelphia and Columbia, and Allegheny Portage Rail-Roads (Harrisburg : Printed by Henry Welsh, 1833., 1833), by and Allegheny Portage Rail-Roads Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into and Report a System of Management of Philadelphia and Columbia, Henry Welsh, Moncure Robinson, and Thomas Grubb McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Canal Commissioners, on the route of a rail-way, avoiding the Schuylkill inclined plane. : Printed by order of the Senate, January 25, 1840. (Harrisburg [Pa.]: : William D. Boas, printer., 1840., 1840), by Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners, William D. Boas, James Clarke, and Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discrimination by railroads : address (E.K. Meyers, Printer and Binder, 1886), by Robert E. Pattison (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act incorporating the Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation & Rail Road Co. : passed the 7th day of February, A.D., 1828, together with the supplements thereto. (Printed by Benj. Bannan, 1854), by Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation & Railroad Co and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication exhibiting the condition of the canals and rail roads. Read in Senate, March 11, 1839. (printed by E. Guyer, 1839), by Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of ... superintendent of motive power on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad 1843-1852 (J.M. Lescure., in the 1st century), by Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad, J. B. Moorhead, Joseph B. Baker, A. L. Roumfort, Augustine Holmes, William English, and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the Portage Rail Road, over the Allegheny Mountain, in Pennsylvania. (Nathan Kite.--50 N. Fourth Street., 1836), by Solomon W. Roberts, Nathan Kite, and Joseph and William Kite (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconnoissance made for the Auburn, Pt. Clinton & Allentown rail road (Benj. Bannan, printer, 1855), by Ellwood Morris, Pennsylvania, Auburn and Port Clinton Rail Road Company, and Allentown Rail Road Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the proposed construction of a rail road from York to the Cumberland Valley Rail Road (s.n.], 1847), by Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company, William P. Pouder, R. M. Magraw, and Coleman Yellott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the president and managers of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road Company to the stockholders : January 12, 1847. (I.M. Moss, 1847), by Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message from the Governor, accompanied with the report of the Canal Commissioners relative to the Schuylkill inclined plane. : Read in the House of Representatives, Jan. 31, 1840. (Harrisburg [Pa.] : Holbrook, Henlock, & Bratton, printers., 1840., 1840), by Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners, James Clarke, Henlock & Bratton Holbrook, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives, and Pennsylvania. Governor (1839-1845 : Porter) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanner's map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Philadelphia : Published by the Author, 1834., 1834), by Henry Schenck Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report of Charles L. Schlatter, principal engineer in the service of the state of Pennsylvania : to the canal commissioners, relative to the continuous railroad from Harrisburg to Pittsburg : read in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1841. (J.S. Wallace, 1841), by Charles L. Schlatter and Pennsylvania. Board of Canal Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief view of the system of internal improvement of the state of Pennsylvania : containing a glance at its rise, progress, retardation, --the difficulties it underwent, --its present state, --and its future prospects ... (Society for the promotion of Internal Improvement, 1831), by Mathew Carey and Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of the feasibility of a regional railroad system for northwest Pennsylvania : final report. (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Office of Transportation, Systems Analysis and Information ;, 1977), by Consad Research Corporation, Richard Feder, Donald E. Matzzie, Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning & Development Commission, and United States. Office of Transportation Systems Analysis and Information (page images at HathiTrust)

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