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Phila, GTown, and Norristown RR Schedule, 1832
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Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad Schedule, 1832

Credit: Courtesy of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

To regulate the safe movement of the rapidly growing number of trains, railroads first developed time tables and then collaborated to create the standard time zones of today.

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