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Railroads of West Chester: 1831 to the Present
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Railroads of West Chester: 1831 to the Present
James Jones
West Chester University
Jones, J.
(2006).
Railroads of West Chester: 1831 to the present. ,
1-147.
Retrieved from
http://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/hist_facpub/9
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A history of the construction and consequences of the greatest invention
of its age as viewed from a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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Written and designed by Jim Jones, Ph.D., Professor of History, West
Chester University. Printed by Taggart Printing, 323 S. Matlack
Street, West Chester, PA 19382.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations iv
Foreword vi
Introduction 1
Part I: A local affair
Chapter 1: Building the West Chester Railroad, 1830-1833 5
Chapter 2: Expansion and collapse, 1834-1843 15
Chapter 3: Recovery and technological improvement, 1844-1850 21
Chapter 4: A second railroad comes to town, 1850-1858 25
Part II: Connecting to the national railroads
Chapter 5: The age of consolidation, 1850-1878 31
Chapter 6: The Pennsylvania Railroad takeover, 1879-1882 39
Part III: Under one management
Chapter 7: Passengers 43
Chapter 8: Freight 51
Chapter 9: Workers 59
Chapter 10: Shaping the borough 69
Chapter 11: Decline 83
Epilogue: The New West Chester Railroad 95
Reference Notes 98
Bibliography 143
List of Tables
1. Construction costs for the West Chester Railroad 10
2. Stations on the West Chester Railroad 15
3. WC&P balance sheet, 1859-1863 34
4. WC&P balance sheet, 1864-1879 37
5. Bulk freight customers of the PRR in 1891 55
6. Freight shipments sent/received at West Chester via Media 58
7. Railroad workers in West Chester 60
8. Location of railroad workers' residences 61
9. Pay rates in West Chester, 1907 62
10. Locomotives of the new West Chester Railroad 96
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