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The Pennsylvania Railroad – A Pictorial History. New York: Bonanza Books. Cresson, B. F. Jr. (September 1910). "The New York tunnel extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad". Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. LXVIII. Churella, Albert J. (2013). The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume I, Building an Empire, 1846–1917.
The following railroads merged to form the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). On February 1, 1968, the PRR merged into Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation.. The following PRR-owned and leased companies were still separate at the time of the Penn Central merger:
Pennsylvania Railroad: River Front Railroad: PRR: 1876 1903 Pennsylvania Railroad: Rochester, Beaver Falls and Western Railway: PRR: 1889 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Rochester, Nunda and Pennsylvania Railroad: 1873 1877 Sold at foreclosure; no property in Pennsylvania Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad: B&O: 1881 1885 Pittsburgh and State Line ...
The Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was a rail line in Pennsylvania connecting Philadelphia with Pittsburgh via Harrisburg. The rail line was split into two rail lines, and now all of its right-of-way is a cross-state corridor , composed of Amtrak 's Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line (including SEPTA 's Paoli/Thorndale Line service ...
1810 – Thomas Leiper constructed a 3/4 mile long railroad to transport gneiss from his quarry in Avondale Pennsylvania to Ridley Creek. 1812 – First commercial use of a steam locomotive on the Middleton Railway, Leeds. Matthew Murray of Fenton, Murray & Wood, located in Holbeck, designed a locomotive with a pinion that meshed with a rack.
The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark MPA), colloquially known as the "Ma and Pa", was an American short-line railroad between York and Hanover, Pennsylvania, formerly operating passenger and freight trains on its original line between York and Baltimore, Maryland, from 1901 until the 1950s.
The Pennsylvania Special was one of nine express trains the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) operated between New York City and Chicago. On November 14, 1912, PRR renamed it the Broadway Limited, to avoid confusion with the similarly-named Pennsylvania Limited. The name, though spelled as "Broadway", honored PRR's four-track "broad way" main line. [1]
The Pittsburgh to St. Louis Main Line was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.The line ran from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania west via Steubenville, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, Terre Haute, Indiana, and Vandalia, Illinois to East St. Louis, Illinois. [1]