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Pennsylvania Railroad system map in 1893. The Pennsy's charter was supplemented on March 23, 1853, to allow it to purchase stock and guarantee bonds of railroads in other states, up to a percentage of its capital stock. Several lines were then aided by the Pennsy in hopes to secure additional traffic.
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.
Pennsylvania Railroad: Susquehanna and Buffalo Railroad: 1891 Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad: PRR/NYC: 1879 1901 Beech Creek Extension Railroad: Sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1901 Susquehanna Connecting Railroad: ERIE: 1896 Susquehanna and Eagles Mere Railroad: Susquehanna, Gettysburg ...
Operation was transferred back to the Pennsylvania Railroad from the Pennsylvania Company on January 1, 1918. ca. 1874 Pennsylvania Railroad map, including the PFW&C. On February 1, 1968, the PRR was merged into Penn Central. The PFW&C stayed separate, filing for bankruptcy on July 14, 1973, over three years after Penn Central's 1970 bankruptcy.
Railroad AAR rep. mark Bay Line Railroad (AL and FL) BAYL Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CA and OR) CORP Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad: CFE Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (IL and IN) CSS Cimarron Valley Railroad (CO, KS, and OK) CVR Deseret Power Railroad (CO and UT) DPRW Rail Link (operates 26 short line railroads) RLIX
Later Northwestern Electric Service Company of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Railroad [2] Dillsburg Branch of the Cumberland Valley Railroad: Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway [2] Pennsylvania – New Jersey Railway [1] Philadelphia and Easton Electric Railway [1] [2] Later Philadelphia and Easton Transit Company
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]
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] Historians credit the railroad system for the country's vast development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as having helped facilitate a ...