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The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its peak in 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad (by traffic and revenue), the largest ...
The Pennsylvania Company was a major holding company.It included the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, the PRR's main route to Chicago.Together with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and Vandalia Railroad, the three railroads were branded by the PRR as Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh.
Of the 98.62 miles of road owned by the company on date of merger, it had acquired 1.73 miles from The Pittsburgh and Whitehall Rail Road Company, 1.40 miles from the Monongahela River and Streets Run Rail Road Company, 1.52 miles from The McKeesport and Bessemer Rail Road Company, 14.60 miles from the Monongahela and Washington Railroad ...
The following railroads merged to form the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). On February 1, 1968, the PRR merged into Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation.. The following PRR-owned and leased companies were still separate at the time of the Penn Central merger:
American railroad company Penn Central Transportation Company declared bankruptcy on June 21, 1970, two and a half years after its formation by the merger of the New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. At the time, this was the largest bankruptcy in American history. [1]
This category contains companies, usually railroad companies, with which the Pennsylvania Railroad or its predecessors had an affiliation (for instance, full or partial stock ownership, a lease, or a merger, but not simple trackage rights).
John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. An entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death in 1874, Thomson made it the largest business enterprise in the world and a world-class model for technological and managerial innovation.
Share of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, issued 24. August 1855. The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in Ohio on February 24 and in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1848, to build from Allegheny City (annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907) west to Crestline, Ohio, on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad.