Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Reading and Columbia Railroad

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The railroad of the Reading and Columbia Railroad Company, herein called the Reading and Columbia, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. The owned mileage aggregates 53.460 miles of road and consists of a main line extending southerly from Sinking Springs to Columbia with branch lines from Lancaster Junction to Lancaster, Manheim to White Oak Station, and from White Oak Station to a connection with the Cornwall Railroad, Philadelphia and Reading System, at a point just north of Mount Hope near Cornwall.


CORPORATE HISTORY

The Reading and Columbia was incorporated October 15, 1859, by special act of Pennsylvania. The [?]