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Oil Creek Railroad stock certificate from 1866

1849 – The Old Guarantee System providing land grants to English companies for railroad construction in India is finalized.
1860 – The Oil Creek Railroad (stock certificate pictured) is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen
1886 – The 7-mile (11 km) long Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County, Ohio.
1897 – W. B. Purvis is awarded a patent for an electric railroad switch.

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