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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 ...
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.
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 Camden and Burlington is a corporation of the State of New Jersey, having its principal office at Camden, N. J. The company is controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, partly through ownership of its capital stock and partly through the right to vote the capital stock owned by the United New Jersey Railroad.
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.
The property was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad under lease from October 1, 1879, to December 31, 1883, the date it was surrendered to its successor. The company owned on the date of consolidation 18.08 miles of single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, extending from Pemberton Junction to Whitings, N. J., which had been acquired ...
The records reviewed indicated that the West Jersey Ferry Company was controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on date of its demise, April 1, 1899, through ownership of a majority of its capital stock. On the other hand, the records did not indicate that this company, itself, controlled any other common-carrier corporations.
On the other hand, the Northern Central controls, through ownership of either a majority of or the entire outstanding capital stock, the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad Company whose common-carrier property was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on December 31, 1917, under lease and The Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad Company whose ...