Work began on the South Penn and was abruptly halted by banker J. P. Morgan in 1885 when he called a truce in the railroad wars that threatened to undermine investor confidence in the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads.

[1] Of the twenty three piers originally built,[2] eight piers still rise from the water at the west side of the river near the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge.

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