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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.
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 — Chicago, IL renamed Broadway Limited; The Pennsylvania-Wilkes Barre Express 1932 — 1949
Marginal Railroad: 1880 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Martins Creek Railroad: PRR: 1885 1896 Belvidere Delaware Railroad: Maryland Central Railway: 1888 1891 Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad: Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad: M&PA, MPA 1901 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the York Railway: Masontown and New Salem Railroad: MGA: 1899 1905
1901: Nine locomotive manufacturing companies are combined in a merger to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). 1902: 20th Century Limited inaugurated by the New York Central Railroad. 1910s: Pennsylvania Railroad builds Pennsylvania Station in New York City; New York Central builds current version of Grand Central Terminal.
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 .
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]
Lionel started the postwar period in 1945 with a train set introducing remote-control uncoupling. The locomotive was the 224, a pre-war carryover 2-6-2 Prairie type. In 1947, Lionel produced a model of the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG1. One year later, Lionel began production of their famous Santa Fe F3. As a direct descendant of the pre-war 763E ...