28 Facts About Pennsylvania Railroad

Pennsylvania Railroad was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1968, the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with its rival New York Central Railroad and the railroad eventually went by the name of Penn Central Transportation Company, or "Penn Central" for short.

The second was the Baltimore and Ohio Pennsylvania Railroad, which wanted to build to Pittsburgh from Cumberland, Maryland.

The Pennsylvania Railroad fulfilled the requirements and Letters Patent were issued by the Pennsylvania governor on February 25,1847.

Pennsylvania Railroad chose a route that followed the west bank of the Susquehanna River northward to the confluence with the Juniata River, following its banks until the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains were reached at a point that would become Altoona, Pennsylvania.

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In 1848, the Pennsy contracted with the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Pennsylvania Railroad to buy and use equipment over both roads, providing service from Harrisburg east to Lancaster.

Pennsylvania Railroad owned grain freight boats on the great lakes and oil pipelines in the oil regions of Pennsylvania.

On February 1,1968, the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with its longtime arch-rival, the New York Central Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad absorbed the New York Central and eventually went by the name of Penn Central Transportation Company.

Pennsylvania Railroad still exists, but has since switched to an insurance company and now goes by the name American Premier Underwriters and currently serves as a subsidiary of American Financial Group.

Pennsylvania Railroad served as the Pennsy's first Chief Engineer and third President.

Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Railroad was in his day the largest railroad in the world, with 6,000 miles of track, and was famous for steady financial dividends, high quality construction, constantly improving equipment, technological advances, and innovation in management techniques for a large complex organization.

In 1861, the Pennsylvania Railroad gained control of the Northern Central Railway, giving it access to Baltimore, Maryland, and points along the Susquehanna River via connections at Columbia, Pennsylvania, or Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Railroad started the Pennsylvania Air Line service via the Northern Central Railway and Columbia, Pennsylvania.

On July 1,1869, the Pennsylvania Railroad leased the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway in which it had previously been an investor.

On June 15,1887, the Pennsylvania Railroad Limited began running between New York and Chicago.

In 1890, the Pennsylvania Railroad gained control of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis Railroad, itself the merged product of numerous smaller lines in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

In 1905, the acquisition of the Vandalia Pennsylvania Railroad gave the Pennsy access across the Mississippi River to St Louis, Missouri.

In 1934, the Pennsylvania Railroad received a $77 million loan from the New Deal's Public Works Administration to complete the electrification project begun in 1928.

The railroads owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad system were now included in reports, in addition to the Pennsylvania Railroad proper.

Pennsylvania Railroad used a classification system for their freight cars.

Pennsylvania Railroad had a design style that it favored in its locomotives.

The Pennsylvania Railroad voluntarily preserved a roundhouse full of representative steam locomotives at Northumberland, Pennsylvania in 1957 and kept them there for several decades.

On December 18,1987, the State of Pennsylvania Railroad designated the Pennsy's K4s as the official State Steam Locomotive.

Pennsylvania Railroad was one of the first railroads to replace semaphore signals with position-light signals.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad experimented with cab signals without wayside signals, an approach later expanded by Conrail and Norfolk Southern Railway.

In following years, the Pennsylvania Railroad led the nation in the development of research and testing procedures of practical value for the railroad industry.

Original Pennsylvania Railroad Station was designed by the noted architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White and was modeled on the Roman Baths of Caracalla; it was notable for its high vaulted ceilings.