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The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its peak in 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad (by traffic and revenue), the largest ...
The Richmond-Washington Company was incorporated September 5, 1901, as a holding company, owning the entire capital stock of the two railroads. The stock of the company was owned equally by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line Railway and Chesapeake and Ohio ...
The property was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad under lease from October 1, 1879, to December 31, 1883, the date it was surrendered to its successor. The company owned on the date of consolidation 18.08 miles of single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad, extending from Pemberton Junction to Whitings, N. J., which had been acquired ...
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.
In 1914, this railroad and the newly built Central Railroad of Maryland were then merged into the York, Hanover and Frederick Railway Company which remained a wholly owned stock subsidiary of the PRR into the creation of the PennDel Company on December 31, 1953, [1] and then the Penn Central Transportation Company merger in 1968 and then ...
The Camden and Burlington is a corporation of the State of New Jersey, having its principal office at Camden, N. J. The company is controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, partly through ownership of its capital stock and partly through the right to vote the capital stock owned by the United New Jersey Railroad.
Share of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, issued 24. August 1855. The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in Ohio on February 24 and in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1848, to build from Allegheny City (annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907) west to Crestline, Ohio, on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad.
This company was preceded by the Eastern Shore Rail Road Company, which was incorporated by a special act of Maryland of March 29, 1836, revised by special act of March 23, 1853. However, no road was constructed by it until 1860. The carrier is controlled by The Pennsylvania Railroad Company through ownership of its capital stock.