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The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, opened in 1832 north to Germantown. At the end of 1833, the state-built Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, part of the Main Line of Public Works, opened for travel to the west, built to avoid loss of travel through Pennsylvania due to projects such as ...
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
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 ...
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River Junction Railroad: 1908 1908 North Shore Railroad: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1881 1886 Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway: Oil City and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1882 1882 Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad: Oil Creek Railroad: PRR: 1860 1868 Oil Creek and Allegheny ...
The Reading Company (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976.
To link the port of Baltimore to the Ohio River, the state of Maryland in 1827 chartered the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O), the first section of which opened in 1830. Similarly, the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company was chartered in 1827 to connect Charleston to the Savannah River , and Pennsylvania built the Main Line of Public ...
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]
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio, Indiana and Missouri Railroad: 1889 American Midland Railway: Ohio, Indiana and Pacific Railway: NYC: 1881 1881 Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway: Ohio and Indiana State Line Railroad: NYC: 1880 1881 Ohio, Indiana and Pacific Railway: Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway: NYC: 1887 1890