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Delaware River And Lancaster Railroad
The Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad, known locally as the Sowbelly Railroad, was a short-lived rail line along French Creek between Kimberton and St. Peters in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Planned interstate line The railroad was originally chartered on March 24, 1868, to run from a railroad bridge crossing the Delaware River at Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, via Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as part of a more direct route between New York City and Lancaster. The charter required the railroad to begin construction within two years of the passage of the act. A supplemental act of February 10, 1870 extended that time by a further three years. The company was not organized until October 12, 1871. It received a charter supplement on April 4, 1872, relieving it of the need to pass through Phoenixville. A token amount of work to preserve the company's charter was done in the winter of 1872–3, when George W. Crane graded about of the line on the Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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PDT may refer to: Computing * PHP Development Tools, an IDE plugin for the Eclipse platform * PDT Standard Police Digital Trunking, China's police wireless communications standard * Portable data terminal, an electronic device that is used to enter or retrieve data via wireless transmission Science and medicine * Patient-delivered therapy * Photodynamic therapy, treatment for cancer and wet age-related macular degeneration, involving a photosensitizer, light, and tissue oxygen * Population doubling time, a number indicating cell growth in cell cultures * Pancreaticoduodenal transplantation (see Pancreas transplantation) * 1,3-Propanedithiol, an organosulfur compound Business and finance * Paramount Domestic Television, United States television series distributor, now CBS Television Distribution * Piedmont Airlines (ICAO airline code), an American regional airline * PDT Partners, a hedge fund company in New York City that was formerly the trading division of Morgan Stanley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |