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The Washington County Railroad was completed in 1898, and became the Calais branch in 1911 after MEC gained controlling stock interest in 1904. [2] The Calais Branch was the longest of three MEC Eastern Division branches converging near Bangor. Trains leaving Bangor for Calais first traveled 31.5 miles (50.7 km) over the Bar Harbor branch.
Pennsylvania & Shore Line Day Express 1890 — 1892 Boston, MA — Philadelphia, PA renamed Colonial Express; The Pennsylvania Limited 1887 — 1971 New York, NY — Chicago, IL; Pennsylvania Special 1902 — 1912 New York, NY — Chicago, IL renamed Broadway Limited; The Pennsylvania-Wilkes Barre Express 1932 — 1949
The Trail Blazer was a deluxe all-coach train, inaugurated between New York and Chicago via Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 17:25 schedule operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The trains departed New York City and Chicago every day at 4:30 pm and 3:00 pm, respectively, and arrived at the destination the next morning.
California and Nevada Railroad: California and Nevada Railroad: ATSF: 1884 1902 Oakland and East Side Railroad: California Northeastern Railway: SP: 1905 1911 Oregon Eastern Railway: California Northern Railroad: SP: 1860 1881 Northern California Railroad: California and Northern Railway: NWP 1900 1904 San Francisco and Northwestern Railway
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B ...
CPRR/UPRR "The Great American Over-land Route" Time Table cover (1881) The first contiguous transcontinental rail service on "The Great American Over-land Route" [1] between the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific on the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa [2] /Omaha, Nebraska via Ogden, Utah [3] and Sacramento (WPRR/CPRR) to the San Francisco Bay at the Oakland Wharf [4] was opened over ...
The California Limited was the first Santa Fe train with Fred Harvey Company meal service. The later trains also offered air conditioning, a barber, beautician, steam-operated clothing press, even a shower-bath. The Limited was the first Santa Fe train with illuminated drumhead on its observation cars, with the train's name over the company logo.
Pennsylvania Railroad: River Front Railroad: PRR: 1876 1903 Pennsylvania Railroad: Rochester, Beaver Falls and Western Railway: PRR: 1889 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Rochester, Nunda and Pennsylvania Railroad: 1873 1877 Sold at foreclosure; no property in Pennsylvania Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad: B&O: 1881 1885 Pittsburgh and State Line ...