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The road foreclosed in 1861, and the Right of Way was sold to William Howard a solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). Share of the Chartiers Railway Company, issued 8. July 1878. In 1867, the Chartiers Railway Company was founded, and with PRR backing finished the line. On December 19, 1870, regular service began between Carnegie and ...
Carnegie (/ k ɑːr ˈ n eɪ ɡ i / [3]) is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 8,134 in the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .
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.
The following railroad lines were owned or operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Pittsburgh and Erie. This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
Main lines: Rebirth of the North American railroads, 1970–2002 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). Stover, John. The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (2001) Stover, John. History of the Illinois Central Railroad (1975) Stover, John. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978)
The Galena and Illinois River Railroad was chartered in Illinois on February 18, 1857, [4] to build from Galena through Chicago to the Indiana state line towards Lansing, Michigan. The Chicago and Great Eastern Railway was incorporated in Indiana on June 19, 1863, to build from Logansport northwest to the Illinois state line towards Chicago.
July 15: Reading Company subsidiary Atlantic City Railroad is renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines and leases the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad from the Pennsylvania Railroad, which acquires a 2/3 share of the new company. [8] December: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad acquires the property of lessor Coal and Coke Railway. [20] 1934
The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1]