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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.
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 .
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.
The Pennsylvania Company was a major holding company.It included the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, the PRR's main route to Chicago.Together with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and Vandalia Railroad, the three railroads were branded by the PRR as Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh.
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
Development of Fixed Physical Property Of the total road owned by the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company on date of merger, it had acquired by purchase the partly constructed property of the North Western Railroad Company between Blairsville and Freeport, about 36 miles, which it completed in 1863-1865. Of the balance, 2.11 miles were ...
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 ...