Records, 1813-1968.

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Records, 1813-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122573098

The records represent about one third of the surviving records of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. There is generally complete coverage of corporate matters for the entire time span and reasonably complete coverage of the functional departments from 1920 to 1950, with somewhat weaker coverage from 1893 to 1920 and from 1950 to 1968. Most important technical, financial and labor matters are represented. More detailed descriptions will be found under entries for individual offices, departments and subsidiary companies.

Mss.: 2,000 linear ft.Microfilm: 181 reels.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6770619

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...