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The Gage War in Pennsylvania

Erie was required this crazy system of what was called breaks in the railway system. The big railroad interests said, forget it. We're going to put a one straight rail line right across this part of Pennsylvania. And so they started to tear up the tracks and burned down the railway bridges. So people had to walk because all the train track in the middle was destroyed.So why is this matter? Well, if they'd been able to run a train right past Erie, no more Erie, right? Facts this later must have happened. This later, in fact, did happen. But not before the gauge war took place.

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