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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 ...
Acquisitions along the PFtW&C: Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, Toledo, Columbus and Ohio River Railroad, and Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway gave the Pennsy access to the iron ore traffic on Lake Erie. [8] On June 15, 1887, the Pennsylvania Limited began running between New York and Chicago. This ...
Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad merged into the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad June 9, 1927. The Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad merged into the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad January 31, 1956. Philadelphia and Erie Railroad; Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
The name was changed to Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad on December 4, 1883. The first major task was to convert all track to standard gauge, which was completed on October 5, 1884. The Philadelphia and Reading Railway acquired full control on December 4, 1885. The Reading leased the North Pennsylvania Railroad on May 14, 1879.
The first New York-Chicago route was provided on January 24, 1853 with the completion of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad to Grafton, Ohio on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. [1]
"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 ...
Eastern Ohio Railroad: B&O: 1891 1915 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Eastern Ohio Railroad: B&O: 1871 1882 Wheeling and Cincinnati Mineral Railway: Eaton and Hamilton Railroad: PRR: 1847 1866 Cincinnati, Richmond and Chicago Railroad: Elyria and Black River Railway: B&O: 1871 1872 Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley Railway: Erie Railroad: ERIE ERIE ...
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.