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A Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad stock certificate from 1852 Early Philadelphia railroads up to 1948 A 1920 map of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad Germantown Depot. Philadelphia was an early railroad hub, with lines from all over meeting in Philadelphia. The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia ...
The Connecting Railway in Philadelphia opened for revenue service on June 3, 1867, with direct service between Philadelphia and Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York. Through freight between Jersey City and Pittsburgh began the next month, and soon some trains began running between Jersey City and Chicago.
The route consisted of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, canals up the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, an inclined plane railroad called the Allegheny Portage Railroad, a tunnel across the Allegheny Mountains, and canals down the Conemaugh and Allegheny rivers to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River; it was completed in 1834 ...
The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978) Turner, George E. Victory rode the rails: the strategic place of the railroads in the Civil War (1953) Ward, James Arthur. J.
The Broadway Limited was a passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) between New York City and Chicago. It operated from 1912 to 1995. It operated from 1912 to 1995. It was the Pennsylvania's premier train, competing directly with the New York Central Railroad 's 20th Century Limited .
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River Junction Railroad: 1908 1908 North Shore Railroad: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1881 1886 Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway: Oil City and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1882 1882 Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad: Oil Creek Railroad: PRR: 1860 1868 Oil Creek and Allegheny ...
"A Macro-scale Look at Railroad History." Railroad History (Fall/Winter 2012), Issue 207, pp 78–89. Riegel, Robert Edgar. The Story of the Western Railroads (1926) online; Saunders, Richard. Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois UP, 2003). Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad ...
The railroad expanded west to Chicago following its 1865 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (NYPANO RR). The mainline route of the Erie Railroad proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier of New York state , including the ...