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- "The Centennial Exhibition and the Pan-Handle Pennsylvania Route," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876 - The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) transported many of the estimated ten million visitors who attended the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, described and illustrated in this guidebook. Travelers from Ohio, Indiana or northern Illinois could get there via PRR's subsidiary, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway -- nicknamed the "Pan-Handle Route" for its path across West Virginia's northern panhandle.
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"The Centennial Exhibition and the Pan-Handle Pennsylvania Route," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) transported many of the estimated ten million visitors who attended the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, described and illustrated in this guidebook. Travelers from Ohio, Indiana or northern Illinois could get there via PRR's subsidiary, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway -- nicknamed the "Pan-Handle Route" for its path across West Virginia's northern panhandle.