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1870: "Pennsylvania Central" is split into lines east (renamed Pennsylvania Railroad) and lines west Pennsylvania Company is formed to hold securities from companies West of Pittsburgh; Use of track pans begins on PRR at Sang Hollow, Pennsylvania; [13] Pennsy reaches Cincinnati, Ohio, with lease of Little Miami and St. Louis, Missouri, with ...
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 only portion that remains in service today is the 3.65-mile (5.87 km) long Willards Industrial Track, the 0.65-mile (1.05 km) Mardella Industrial Track and the 0.6-mile (0.97 km) Mill Street Industrial Track - all in Salisbury, Maryland - operated by Delmarva Central Railroad on track owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad. Track, bridges and ...
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.
Both companies were operated as a continuous line by the Western Transportation Company until 1868, [7] when they merged to form the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway, [8] owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. [citation needed] The oldest part of the line was opened by the Columbus and Xenia Railroad in 1850, from Columbus west to ...
Symes joined the Pennsylvania Railroad as a clerk in 1916. One of the earliest—and largest railroads in the United States—the Pennsylvania began styling itself the "Standard Railroad of the World" the same year James Symes went to work for the company. One of the largest railroads, it was also one of the largest business concerns in the U.S.
Thomas Alexander Scott (December 28, 1823 – May 21, 1881) was an American businessman, railroad executive, and industrialist. In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, and during the American Civil War railroads under his leadership played a major role in the war effort.
Marginal Railroad: 1880 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Martins Creek Railroad: PRR: 1885 1896 Belvidere Delaware Railroad: Maryland Central Railway: 1888 1891 Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad: Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad: M&PA, MPA 1901 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the York Railway: Masontown and New Salem Railroad: MGA: 1899 1905