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The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society (PRRTHS) is a railroad historical society founded in 1974 and organized as a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation and recognized as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization by the United States Internal Revenue Service. [1]
1870: "Pennsylvania Central" is split into lines east (renamed Pennsylvania Railroad) and lines west Pennsylvania Company is formed to hold securities from companies West of Pittsburgh; Use of track pans begins on PRR at Sang Hollow, Pennsylvania; [13] Pennsy reaches Cincinnati, Ohio, with lease of Little Miami and St. Louis, Missouri, with ...
The data given below, however, have been obtained from documents filed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and from the records of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The railroad owned by this company on the date of its sale, July 5, 1859, consisted of a projected and partly constructed standard-gauge railroad between Blairsville and Freeport ...
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is a railroad museum in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The museum is located on the east side of Strasburg along Pennsylvania Route 741 . It is administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission with the active support of the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (FRM).
Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division) Pennsylvania Canal (West Branch Division) Pennsylvania Furnace Mansion; Pennsylvania Railroad Old Bridge over Standing Stone Creek; Perkasie Tunnel; Perkiomen Bridge; Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Phoenix Iron Works (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) Pine Grove Covered Bridge
The earliest example of a company railroad surgeon was James P. Quinn [42] on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1834, but the practice did not become widespread until the 1850s. By the end of the 1850s most companies had some kind of medical service. [43]
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The U.S. Department of Transportation worked with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Budd Company, General Electric and Westinghouse to develop an electric multiple unit high speed passenger train. [1] An initial order of 50 Budd Metroliner cars was placed on May 6, 1966, with a target service date of October 1967.