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The first South Pennsylvania Railroad was originally chartered as the Duncannon, Landisburg, and Broad Top Railroad Company on May 5, 1854. [1] Its intended route began in Duncannon, passed through Landisburg and Burnt Cabins and ended on the Juniata River via the Broad Top Mountain coalfields.
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad; Norfolk Southern Railroad; Norfolk Southern Railway (1942-1982) Norfolk and Western Railway; Northern Alabama Railway; Northern Central Railway; Northern Pacific Railway; Northwestern Pacific Railroad; Oahu Railway and Land Company; Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway; Oregon Electric Railway
Pennsylvania Route 19: Lewistown - Scranton, Anthracite Trail (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 22: Keystone Trail (1927) Pennsylvania Route 24: Washington-Harrisburg Route (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 33: Lykens Valley Trail (1927) Pennsylvania Route 41: Reading - Harrisburg (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 44: Highway to the Stars (Potter County)
The Pennsylvanian is a 444-mile (715 km) daily daytime Amtrak train running between New York City and Pittsburgh via Philadelphia.The trains travel across the Appalachian Mountains, through Pennsylvania's capital Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, suburban and central Philadelphia, and New Jersey en route to New York.
Operation was transferred back to the Pennsylvania Railroad from the Pennsylvania Company on January 1, 1918. ca. 1874 Pennsylvania Railroad map, including the PFW&C. On February 1, 1968, the PRR was merged into Penn Central. The PFW&C stayed separate, filing for bankruptcy on July 14, 1973, over three years after Penn Central's 1970 bankruptcy.
In 1964, the Nickel Plate combined with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), bringing the W&LE into N&W and, after the N&W-Southern Railway merger, Norfolk Southern. [1] Throughout this period, the railroad generally remained unchanged. The railroad was combined into Norfolk Southern in 1988, ending its existence as a separate subsidiary.
As the Pennsylvania Railroad assembled its system in northern Indiana, Logansport became a major hub, with seven lines radiating in all directions (the only other service to the city was a line of the Wabash Railroad, now Norfolk Southern Railway). [3] Conrail took over four of these in 1976, [4] and abandoned the line to Marion in the 1980s.