The Pennsylvania Railroad, nicknamed the Pennsy, was an American rail network established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia that grew into the largest railroad in the world by traffic and revenue by 1882. At its peak the network controlled at least 800 other rail lines and companies and, by the end of 1926, operated roughly 11,640 miles of track stretching across the northeastern and midwestern United States, connecting major cities including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis with the New York Central Railroad as its principal rival network. The Pennsylvania Railroad pioneered major engineering works to keep its network competitive, including electrifying its Northeast Corridor and New York-Washington main lines in the 1930s, work whose infrastructure Amtrak's Northeast Corridor still uses today. Financial difficulties in the 1960s led the network to merge with the New York Central in 1968 to form Penn Central, which collapsed into bankruptcy within two years, a failure significant enough that it helped prompt the federal government to create Conrail and Amtrak to keep the routes the Pennsylvania Railroad had built running.
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Pennsylvania Railroad...was an American Class I railroad established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia.
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was an American Class I railroad established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia
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was an American Class I railroad established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia
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was an American Class I railroad established in 1846
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The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), officially the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia.
View the SourcePennsylvania Railroad 5550 (Wikipedia)
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the 53rd example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 steam locomotive class
Pennsylvania Railroad I1 class (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad I1s, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class I1s steam locomotives
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad 4483, Lead, class
PRR 4483 was built in May 1923
View the SourcePennsylvania Railroad class Q2 (Wikipedia)
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class Q2 comprised one prototype
Pennsylvania Railroad class FF1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad FF1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad FF1, Lead, class
class FF1 was an American electric locomotive
Pennsylvania Railroad class B6 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad B6, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad B6, Lead, class
class B6 was its most successful class of switcher
Pennsylvania Railroad class J1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad J1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad J1, Lead, class
The PRR J1 was a class of 2-10-4
Pennsylvania Railroad class M1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad M1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad M1, Lead, class
The M1 was a class of steam locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Pennsylvania Railroad class E6 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad E6, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad E6, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad Class E6 was the final type
Pennsylvania Railroad class DD1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad DD1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad DD1, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad DD1 was a class of boxcab
Pennsylvania Railroad class S1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad S1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad S1, Lead, class
The PRR S1 class steam locomotive
Pennsylvania Railroad class G5 (Wikipedia)
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The Pennsylvania Railroad G5s is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class L1 (Wikipedia)
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Pennsylvania Railroad Class L1s were 2-8-2 steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class N1s (Wikipedia)
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was a class of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class K4 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad K4s, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad K4s, Lead, class
built between 1914 and 1928 for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Pennsylvania Railroad class T1 (Wikipedia)
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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class T1 duplex-drive 4-4-4-4 steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class A5s (Wikipedia)
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The Pennsylvania Railroad's class A5s was the most powerful class of 0-4-0 steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class H6 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad H6, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad H6, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class H6, H6a, and H6b steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class C1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad C1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad C1, Lead, class
The PRR C1 was the Pennsylvania Railroad's class of 0-8-0 steam locomotive
Pennsylvania Railroad class DD2 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad DD2, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad DD2, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class DD2 was a single prototype electric locomotive
Pennsylvania Railroad class E2, E3, and E7 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad E2, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad E2, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class E2, E3, E7 steam locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class P5 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad P5, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad P5, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class P5 (and subclasses P5a, P5a Modified, P5b) comprised 92 mixed-traffic electric locomotives
Pennsylvania Railroad class D16 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad D16, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad D16, Lead, class
Class D16 on the Pennsylvania Railroad was their final development of the 4-4-0
Pennsylvania Railroad class Q1 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad Q1, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad Q1, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad class Q1, #6130, was a single experimental steam locomotive
Pennsylvania Railroad class S2 (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad S2, Lead, classQuote, Has Vehicles: Pennsylvania Railroad S2, Lead, class
The Pennsylvania Railroad's S2 class was a one-off experimental prototype steam turbine locomotive
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Wikipedia)
Has Part: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Lead, parent systemQuote, Has Part: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Lead, parent system
was a railroad that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system
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