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Re: (rshsdepot) B&O 'Last Spike' 150 Years Ago Today

Unrelated to anything here but the common date, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad New Jersey Cut-off officially opened 91 years ago today, December 24, 1911.
Don


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>Railroad Anniversary Observed 
> 
>By MICHELLE BLUM 
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> 
>While area residents are making final preparations to observe Christmas, 
>today marks an important anniversary in the area's transportation history. 
> 
>The last spike completing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was struck at 5:20 
>p.m. Dec. 24, 1852, 150 years ago today, at Roseby's Rock in Marshall 
>County, connecting Wheeling to Cumberland, Md. and points east. 
>The B&O was chartered by the Maryland Legislature in 1827, while Virginia's 
>legislators granted the right of way "through her territory to the Ohio 
>River," according to the 1851 Wheeling City Directory. 


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