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Union Traction and the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit system
Page entitled : Continental Passenger Railway
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Of P.A.B. Widener's great opportunity in 1873, W.L. Elkins retirement from
the oil business and their founding with W.H. Kemble of the Continental
Passenger Railway
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with William H. Kemble,
who had likewise used the influence of his political office (State Treasurer
of Pennsylvania), when he co-founded the Union Passenger Railway Company in
1868, and William L. Elkins, his longtime friend, whose oil and gas
interests had already earned him a sizeable fortune, Widener set up the
Continental Passenger Railway Co in 1873. They also admitted Charles T.
Yerkes
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