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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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.
Alfred E. Perlman and Stuart W. Saunders were Penn Central's first executives, and quickly became enemies. The Penn Central Company came into existence on February 1, 1968, with the Pennsylvania Railroad absorbing the New York Central and adopting the new name, which was subsequently changed to the Penn Central Transportation Company on October 1, 1969. [1]
This company, a corporation of the States of Indiana and Ohio, owned on May 6, 1856, the date of its consolidation with the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company to form The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail Road Company, about 131.60 miles of single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad ...
The railroad owned on date of consolidation consisted of about 21.26 miles of single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, extending from Pomeroy, Pa., to Pennsylvania-Delaware State line, and had been acquired from the Pennsylvania and Delaware Railway Company under deed dated December 7, 1880, it being all of the latter company's road ...