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 * August 7


 * 1865 – The Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company, with tracks in Pennsylvania and Ohio, is reorganized as the Lawrence Railroad Company.
 * 1905 – The Marion and Johnston City Railway, a predecessor of Missouri Pacific Railroad (1903 map pictured), is incorporated in Illinois.
 * 1924 – Streetcars operate for the last time in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to be replaced with buses.
 * 1954 – The last streetcars operate on the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway in Altoona, Pennsylvania.