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186:Oil Creek Railroad Company Ledger, 1864-1868
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260:American companies disestablished in 1868
220:Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
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188:. Oil Creek Railroad Company. 1868.
156:"The Oil Creek Rail Road - History"
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