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The Empire Transportation Company was founded in 1865 by Joseph D. Potts and became a multi-modal freight transportation subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It owned oil tanker cars and used them to transport refined oil for mostly independent oil refiners during the era of John D. Rockefeller's and Standard Oil's oil refinery mergers of ...
John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist. An entrepreneur best known for his leadership of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from 1852 until his death in 1874, Thomson made it the largest business enterprise in the world and a world-class model for technological and managerial innovation.
Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad: OHPA 2004 2006 Eastern States Railroad: Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad: OHPA 1995 1996 Central Columbiana and Pennsylvania Railway: Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad: PRR: 1848 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River Junction Railroad: 1908 1908 North Shore Railroad: Ohio River and Lake Erie ...
Two of the largest remaining railroads, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central, merged in 1968 to form the Penn Central. At the insistence of the ICC the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was added to the merger in 1969; in 1970 the Penn Central declared bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history until then.
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.
Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for most of its existence, and a single railroad in its later years. It operated service as Reading Railway System and was a successor to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company , founded in 1833.
Altoona in 1895: a Pennsylvania Railroad town, a lithograph by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler. Prior to European settlement, the Altoona area was inhabited by the Iroquois Confederacy. [20] Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1849 as the site for a shop and maintenance complex.
The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals (the Pennsylvania, New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads), all united by large-scale service into the New York metropolitan area and (to a lesser extent) New ...