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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 ...
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 Detroit Union Railroad, Depot and Station Company, New Cumberland and Pittsburgh Railway, Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway, Wheeling Coal Railroad and Wheeling and Eastern Railroad merged into the Penndel Company December 31, 1954. The Bradford Railroad merged into the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad January 29, 1932.
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.
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 ...
1850 map of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. Work began on August 16, 1854, on the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge over the Allegheny River to extend the O&P into Pittsburgh to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bridge opened September 22, 1857, with a temporary station at Penn and Wayne Streets (today Penn Avenue and Tenth Street).
Marginal Railroad: 1880 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Martins Creek Railroad: PRR: 1885 1896 Belvidere Delaware Railroad: Maryland Central Railway: 1888 1891 Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad: Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad: M&PA, MPA 1901 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the York Railway: Masontown and New Salem Railroad: MGA: 1899 1905
Symes joined the Pennsylvania Railroad as a clerk in 1916. One of the earliest—and largest railroads in the United States—the Pennsylvania began styling itself the "Standard Railroad of the World" the same year James Symes went to work for the company. One of the largest railroads, it was also one of the largest business concerns in the U.S.