Records, 1874-1989 (bulk, 1895-1976).

The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company was incorporated on December 19, 1935, by the merger of the Philadelphia & Garrettford Street Railway Company. The company operated buses and streetcars serving the western suburbs of Philadelphia. From the description of Records, 1792-1973 (bulk 1848-1973). (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86134141 The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company was incorporated on April 13, 1936, by the me...

Frankford Elevated Passenger Railway Company.

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Pelham and Frankford Street Railway Company.

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Reading Company

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The Reading Company, chartered in 1871 as the Excelsior Enterprise Company, became the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. As a result of anti-trust proceedings, the Reading Company divested itself of its mining subsidiary in 1923 and became an operating company for its rail properties. After bankruptcy in the early 1970s, viable portions of the rail network were conveye...

Delaware River Joint Commission of Pennsylvania and New Jersey

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Northern Passenger Railway Company (Philadelphia, Pa.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62602p9 (corporateBody)

Market Street Elevated Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx40cv (corporateBody)

Yellow Cab Company of Philadelphia.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck6xvr (corporateBody)

Germantown Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s5825 (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d3k0m (corporateBody)

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...

Peoples Traction Company (Philadelphia, Pa.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k15nzr (corporateBody)

Snyder Avenue Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6105mmj (corporateBody)

Doylestown and Easton Motor Coach Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q32hh2 (corporateBody)

Twenty-second Street and Allegheny Avenue Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hr2hfv (corporateBody)

Ridge Avenue Elevated Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md7hmg (corporateBody)

Frankford Connecting Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6231c46 (corporateBody)

Philadelphia, Cheltenham and Jenkintown Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk61s6 (corporateBody)

Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dp2prb (corporateBody)

Center City Commuter Connection (Philadelphia, Pa.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rv9622 (corporateBody)

Real Estate Holding Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6288rw0 (corporateBody)

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Compact

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx3s8n (corporateBody)

Philadelphia Market Street Subway-Elevated Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc5p0m (corporateBody)

Union Traction Company of Philadelphia.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67q7gwb (corporateBody)

Cunningham Cab Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q89xcm (corporateBody)

Passenger Service Improvement Corporation of Philadelphia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv6ctr (corporateBody)

Peoples Passenger Railway Company (Philadelphia, Pa.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sz4xmc (corporateBody)

Red Arrow Lines, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w6xbq (corporateBody)

Tioga and Frankford Street Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j02w0 (corporateBody)

Germantown and Fairmount Park Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph090x (corporateBody)

Green and Coates Streets Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp1s2b (corporateBody)

Frankford and Fairmount Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk61pv (corporateBody)

Germantown Loop Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc8mvt (corporateBody)

ConRail

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63b9ndv (corporateBody)

The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

Chelten Avenue Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60s86xc (corporateBody)

Girard College Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q89xtf (corporateBody)

Sansom Street Connecting Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb1s5p (corporateBody)

Darby, Media and Chester Street Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69h4528 (corporateBody)

De Leuw, Cather & Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv462g (corporateBody)

Philadelphia Transportation Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67q2z68 (corporateBody)

The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on January 1, 1940, by the merger of all the bus, streetcar and subway companies in the city of Philadelphia, with suburban routes extending to Doylestown in Bucks County and Chester and Media in Delaware County. On September 30, 1968, it sold all its assets to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) a public agency and went into liquidation. Philadelphia's first horse-d...

D M & C Bus Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc2q1n (corporateBody)

Germantown Avenue Elevated Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r6c7m (corporateBody)

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p60fbz (corporateBody)

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) was created on February 17, 1964, by Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties under a 1963 act that permitted counties to organize such authorities and acquire the assets of private transportation companies. SEPTA was created in response to a growing crisis in urban mass transit. Commuter rail lines were suffering from operating losses that freight income could no longer offset, combined...

Fairmount Park and Haddington Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md7h9f (corporateBody)

Penn Central Transportation Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck243v (corporateBody)

The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...

Transport Workers' Union of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wd7tk7 (corporateBody)

Much of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) history centers around the fiery figure of Michael Quill, President of the TWU from 1935 to 1966. Quill, born in Kilgarven, Ireland in 1905, started with the IRT subway as a ticket taker. It was only with the financial support of the Communist Party that Quill, together with Maurice Forge, Austin Hogan and Harry Sacher, was able to lead a successful organizing drive among New York City transit workers beginning in 1934. With Quill as President, the TWU o...

Girard Avenue Passenger Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn9qmk (corporateBody)

Frankford and Oxford Turnpike Road Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c90tsk (corporateBody)

Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc71d8 (corporateBody)

Prior to the 1870s, Philadelphia's public transportation system consisted of dozens of independently owned and operated horse-drawn streetcar lines. However, as Philadelphia's population grew, increasing street congestion and the disorganization of the numerous independent streetcar lines created a need for a more efficient transportation system. Efficiency could only be achieved through expensive mechanization, which required consolidated capital. The path to electrification and un...

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