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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 ...
Penn Central Transportation Company (PC), successor to the New York Central Railroad (NYC), New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH), and Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL), successor to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) and Erie Railroad (Erie) Ann Arbor Railroad (AA), controlled by Penn Central [1]
The Camden and Burlington is a corporation of the State of New Jersey, having its principal office at Camden, N. J. The company is controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, partly through ownership of its capital stock and partly through the right to vote the capital stock owned by the United New Jersey Railroad.
A fourth area, the former Monongahela Railway in southwest Pennsylvania, was originally owned jointly by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. Conrail absorbed the company in 1993, and assigned trackage rights to CSX, the successor to the B&O and P&LE. With the Conrail breakup, those lines ...
The records reviewed indicated that the West Jersey Ferry Company was controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on date of its demise, April 1, 1899, through ownership of a majority of its capital stock. On the other hand, the records did not indicate that this company, itself, controlled any other common-carrier corporations.
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 ...
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.
American railroad company Penn Central Transportation Company declared bankruptcy on June 21, 1970, two and a half years after its formation by the merger of the New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. At the time, this was the largest bankruptcy in American history. [1]