John Cowgill: Stories of the Railroad
The south-central region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is a region with many farms. Today, the farmers have access to trucks to ship their products to the warehouses and the stores. Before the availability of automobiles, the railroad was the fastest way to get their products to the market. Otherwise, you had to load a horse-drawn cart to the nearest town. As the railroads were built across the country, they began to connect the small towns with the big cities. The town of Stewartstown was not considered by and of the railroad companies. Farmers had to load their carts and go six miles (a long way when you do not have a car or truck) to the town of Shrewsbury Junction (now Railroad, Pennsylvania) to load their products on the train. With many farmers in the region, it would have been nice to have a railroad pass through the…
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