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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 ...
The New Castle and Richmond Railroad was chartered February 16, 1848, in Indiana to build a line from New Castle east via Hagerstown and Greens Fork to Richmond. The company was authorized on January 24, 1851, to extend northwest beyond New Castle to Lafayette. On February 26, 1853, it was renamed the Cincinnati, Logansport and Chicago Railway ...
Pittsburgh Line. The Pittsburgh Line is the Norfolk Southern Railway 's primary east–west artery in its Pittsburgh Division and Harrisburg Division across the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is part of the Keystone Corridor, Amtrak -Norfolk Southern's combined rail corridor. The Pittsburgh Line spans 248 miles (399 km) between its namesake ...
The Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad was chartered in Indiana on May 11, 1852, and organized September 14, 1852, as a further extension west to Chicago. It was chartered February 5, 1853, in Illinois. The first section opened in February 1856 from Fort Wayne to Columbia City. On July 26, 1856, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road was ...
1854–1953. Successor. Pennsylvania Railroad (1921) Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad at its height provided passenger and freight railroad services between Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, USA. The company was formed on January 18, 1854.
Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad: Borinstein Railroad: BRRC 1985 early 1990s: N/A Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad: NYC: 1835 1837 Northern Indiana Railroad: Butler and Detroit Railroad: WAB: 1880 1881 Detroit, Butler and St. Louis Railroad: Cairo and Vincennes Railroad: NYC: 1872 1880 Cairo and Vincennes Railway: Cairo and Vincennes ...
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), and CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The line runs from Pittsburgh, west via Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Gary, Indiana ...
Neversink Mountain Railway. New Castle and Lowell Railway. New Holland, Blue Ball and Terre Hill Street Railway. New Homestead Street Railway. New Jersey and Pennsylvania Traction Company. Newtown Electric Railway. Newtown, Langhorne and Bristol Trolley Street Railway. Newtown and Yardley Street Railway.