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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 ...
Development of Fixed Physical Property Of the total road owned by the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company on date of merger, it had acquired by purchase the partly constructed property of the North Western Railroad Company between Blairsville and Freeport, about 36 miles, which it completed in 1863-1865. Of the balance, 2.11 miles were ...
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 ...
In consideration for acquiring the lease of this property the Pennsylvania Company issued to the Pennsylvania Railroad $1,250,000 par value of its preferred stock. This property was sublet by the Pennsylvania Company to The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company for sole operation under a 25-year lease dated October 24, 1876.
The Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal was incorporated under the general laws of the States of New Jersey and New York through filing on June 26, 1907, with the secretaries of state of the States named, an agreement dated June 5, 1907, for the purpose of consolidating the property, rights, and franchises of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania, New ...
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).
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 ...
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.