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The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-equipped, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is now SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line , though the Strafford spur has been abandoned.
Pittsburgh and Western Railroad: Path Valley Railroad: 1893 1900 Perry Lumber Company: Peach Bottom Railroad: 1881 1890 Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad: Peach Bottom Railway: 1868 1881 Peach Bottom Railroad, York and Peach Bottom Railway: Pencoyd and Philadelphia Railroad: 1899 1929 N/A Owned by the American Bridge Company
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.
The Bullet was a streamlined electric multiple unit passenger car produced by the J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia and Western Railroad (P&W) in 1931, and then similar, somewhat smaller single-unit, single-end versions were built for the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad in 1932.
Philadelphia was an early railroad hub, with lines from all over meeting in Philadelphia. The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, opened in 1832 north to Germantown. At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, part of the Main Line of Public Works, opened for ...
The Detroit Union Railroad, Depot and Station Company, New Cumberland and Pittsburgh Railway, Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway, Wheeling Coal Railroad and Wheeling and Eastern Railroad merged into the Penndel Company December 31, 1954. The Bradford Railroad merged into the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad January 29, 1932.
The deal brought the WNY&PRY little profit, [5] but it did improve revenues for the Allegheny Valley and the Philadelphia and Erie roads, so the net result was satisfactory to the Pennsylvania. [6] Eventually, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway became the Pennsylvania Railroad's Buffalo and Allegheny Valley Division.
In 1881, the Clark firm bought at auction the foreclosed Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O), an east-west railroad across Virginia controlled by William Mahone. Kimball, who was a partner in the Clark firm, headed the new line, which was renamed Norfolk & Western Railway, and consolidated it with the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.