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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 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 ...
Catherine and Bainbridge Streets Railway of Philadelphia. Centennial Passenger Railway. Central Pennsylvania Traction Company. Central Traction Company. Central Valley Railroad. Centre and Clearfield Street Railway. Chambersburg and Gettysburg Electric Railway. Chambersburg, Greencastle and Waynesboro Street Railway.
6 ft (1,829 mm) Length. 998 miles (1,606 kilometers) The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad, was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City, a distance of 395 miles (636 km). The railroad was incorporated in Pennsylvania ...
The Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad was founded in 1983 to provide freight service on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Schuylkill Division between Hamburg and Temple. Starting in 1985, the BM&R began operating passenger excursions over the line using two steam locomotives: ex- Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad 4-6-2 № 425 and ex- Reading ...
An 1860 illustration of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's unusual double-decker bridge, which crosses the Delaware River in Easton An 1884 map of the Pennsylvania, Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroads Lehigh Valley Railroad's Barge 79, now a museum in South Brooklyn Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's terminal at Jersey City Map of Lehigh Valley Railroad's Roselle and South Plainfield Railway A share of ...
The first South Pennsylvania Railroad was originally chartered as the Duncannon, Landisburg, and Broad Top Railroad Company on May 5, 1854. [1] Its intended route began in Duncannon, passed through Landisburg and Burnt Cabins and ended on the Juniata River via the Broad Top Mountain coalfields. On May 5, 1855, it was renamed the Sherman's ...
19 miles (31 km) [1] 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.