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==Transportation== {{main|Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania}} Lying on the natural route from Philadelphia to the western part of Pennsylvania, Lancaster County has given rise to many improvements in transportation, such as the [[Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike]], later part of the [[Lincoln Highway]], in 1794,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road|work=DOT Federal Highway Administration|url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/rakeman/1795.htm|access-date=May 29, 2006}}</ref> a canal in 1820, and the [[Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad]] in 1834.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prrths.com/PRR_hagley_intro.htm|title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Predecessors and Successors and its Historical Context|last=Baer|first=Christopher T.|access-date=September 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907213349/http://www.prrths.com/PRR_hagley_intro.htm|archive-date=September 7, 2006}}</ref> ===Major roads and highways=== {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| * {{jct|state=PA|I|76|PATP}} * {{jct|state=PA|US|30}} * {{jct|state=PA|US|222}} * {{jct|state=PA|US|322}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|10}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|23}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|41}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|72}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|230}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|241}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|272}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|283}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|324}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|340}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|372}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|441}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|462}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|472}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|501}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|625}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|722}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|741}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|743}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|772}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|896}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|897}} * {{jct|state=PA|PA|999}} }} ===Current railroads=== [[File:Lancaster Amtrak station, Sept 2012.jpg|thumb|[[Lancaster station (Pennsylvania)|Lancaster Train Station]], located on the ''[[Keystone Corridor]]'', the second-busiest [[Amtrak]] station in Pennsylvania after [[30th Street Station]] in [[Philadelphia]]]] {{As of|2006}}, passenger service in Lancaster County is provided by [[Amtrak]], whose ''[[Keystone Corridor]]'' passes through the county, with stops at [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]], [[Mount Joy, Pennsylvania|Mount Joy]] and [[Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania|Elizabethtown]]. A station is planned at [[Paradise, Pennsylvania|Paradise]] to provide connecting service with the [[Strasburg Rail Road|Strasburg Railroad]], which runs passenger excursions from nearby [[Leaman Place, Pennsylvania|Leaman Place]] to [[Strasburg, Pennsylvania|Strasburg]]. The principal freight operator in the county is [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] (NS). The NS main line follows the Susquehanna River (with [[trackage rights]] for [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] (CPR)), and leaves the county by crossing the river on [[Shocks Mills Bridge]] near [[Marietta, Pennsylvania|Marietta]]. NS also has trackage rights over the Keystone Corridor, to which it is connected by the ''Royalton Branch'', which runs north along the river from the main line at Marietta, and the ''Columbia Branch'', which runs from the Corridor at [[Dillerville, Pennsylvania|Dillerville]] to the main line at [[Columbia, Pennsylvania|Columbia]]. Two other NS branches originate on the Corridor: the ''Lititz Secondary'', which runs from Dillerville to [[Manheim, Pennsylvania|Manheim]] and ends at [[Lititz, Pennsylvania|Lititz]], and the ''New Holland Industrial'', which leaves the Corridor around the east end of Lancaster to run east to [[New Holland, Pennsylvania|New Holland]] and ends at [[East Earl, Pennsylvania|East Earl]]. Several short lines also operate in the county. With the exception of the Strasburg Railroad, all are freight railroads. The [[East Penn Railroad]] (ESPN) operates on a spur off the NS branch to Manheim, and on a longer line in the northeast corner of Lancaster County into Berks County. Landisville Terminal and Transfer Company (LNTV) operates on a spur off the Amtrak line at Landisville. The [[Tyburn Railroad]] operates some trackage around Dillerville. The Columbia and Reading Railway (CORY) began operating on {{convert|2.5|mi|km}} of track in Columbia in January 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/MAPS/Statewide/parail.PDF|title=Pennsylvania Department of Transportation 2010 Railroad Map of Pennsylvania (shows owners and operators)|access-date=May 3, 2010}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ===Airport=== There are two public airports in Lancaster County. [[Lancaster Airport (Pennsylvania)|Lancaster Airport]] has scheduled passenger service, and [[Smoketown Airport]] serves [[general aviation]] users.
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