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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.
Portal of the abandoned tunnel of the Allegheny Portage Railroad near Johnstown, PA, the first railroad tunnel in the United States. The eastern part of the PRR's main line (east of Lancaster) was built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Main Line of Public Works: a hybrid railroad and canal corridor across the state.
Already in 1860, aware of the railroad’s financial vulnerability, Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania had approached J. Edgar Thomson and Thomas A. Scott, the president and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, proposing that if the PRR were to buy stock in the Northern Central, they could jointly control the NCRY. [70]
The Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG1 is a class of streamlined electric locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), in the northeastern United States. The class was known for its striking art deco shell, its ability to pull trains at up to 100 mph, and its long operating career of almost 50 years.
Tipton Railroad: PRR: 1885 1927 N/A Titusville and Oil City Railway: PRR: 1878 1881 Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad: Titusville and Petroleum Centre Railroad: PRR: 1870 1878 Titusville and Oil City Railway: Towanda and Franklin Railroad: LV: 1853 1854 Barclay Railroad and Coal Company: Trenton Cut-off Railroad: PRR: 1889 1902 ...
The 21 steam locomotives owned by the PRSL were from the PRR subsidiary WJ&S. [3] They all consisted of PRR classes. Before dieselization the PRSL was more apt to lease its motive power from either of its parent railroads as it completely lacked any heavy passenger locomotives (like 4-6-2 Pacifics). As its parent railroads began to replace ...
Pennsylvania Railroad 1361 is a K4 class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built in May 1918 by the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It hauled mainline passenger trains in Pennsylvania and commuter trains in Central New Jersey on the PRR until its retirement from revenue service in 1956.
Pennsy Aerotrain 1956 — 1957 New York, NY — Pittsburgh, PA experimental run of lightweight GM Aerotrain; 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 ...