Secretary's record papers, 1866-1976.

Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway Company

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Ocean City Railroad Company (1896-1901)

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Glassboro Railroad Company

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Brigantine Beach Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania-Reading Motor Lines, Inc.

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Westinghouse Air Brake Company

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New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners

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Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company.

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Harlan & Hollingsworth Company.

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Office of Secretary-Treasurer.

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The Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was created in 1933 by the consolidations of the railroad lines of the Atlantic City Railroad Company, a part of the Reading Company system, and those of the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company, a part of the Pennsylvania System. In the 19th century, both railroads had built parallel and competing lines between Camden, opposite Philadelphia, and the seaside resorts of southern New Jersey. The consolidation permitted the elimination of redundant route...

Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Matthias Baldwin (b. 1795), a former jeweler and tool manufacturer, was commissioned in 1831 by Franklin Peale to fashion a miniature locomotive engine to be displayed at his Philadelphia Museum. Soon the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad asked Baldwin to construct "Old Ironsides," his first full-size engine, in 1832. Subsequently, M.W. Baldwin, incorporated in 1831, became an establishment for the manufacture of locomotive engines at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia. The po...

Williamson, Benjamin, 1809-1892

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Lawyer, of Elizabeth, Union (earlier Essex) County, New Jersey; born 1809, the son of Isaac H. Williamson; graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), 1827; admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1830 and as a counselor in 1833; Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex County, 1848-1852; Chancellor of New Jersey, 1852-1858 or 1859; married Elizabeth Beasley, sister of New Jersey Chief Justice Mercer Beasley; died 1892. From the description of Papers, 1831-1889 (incl...

New Jersey Southern Railway Company.

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Chelsea Branch Railroad Company.

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Atlantic City Railroad Company

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Camden County Railroad Company

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Winslow and Richland Railroad Company

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Delaware River Ferry Company of New Jersey

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Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company.

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Richland and Petersburg Railroad Company

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Woodruff Sleeping and Parlor Coach Company.

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...

Public Service Interstate Transportation Company.

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Cape May Railroad Company

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Cape May, Delaware Bay, and Sewell's Point Railroad Company.

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Atlantic City Transportation Company.

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Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad Company

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General Railway Signal Company

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Williamstown Railroad Company

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South Jersey Railroad Company

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Federal Signal Company.

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West Jersey Railroad Company

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Chartered 1853. From the description of Records, [ca 1854]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975371 ...

Kaighn's Point Terminal Railroad Company

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Pullman Company

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York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company. From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944 Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal sub...

Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railway Company

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Pullman's Palace Car Company

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Sleeping car companies acquired by Pullman's Palace Car Company. Founded in 1870, the Erie and Atlantic Sleeping Coach Company was bought by Pullman in 1873. The Southern Transportation Company, founded in 1865 and controlled by the Central Transporation Company, was leased by Pullman in 1870 for $20,000 per year as part of the larger Central Transportation Co. deal. The Southern's lines became part of Pullman's new subsidiary, the Pullman Southern Car Company. In 1878, ...

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...

Camden, Gloucester & Mt. Ephraim Railway Company

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Port Authority Transit Corporation

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Delaware River Port Authority

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Williamstown and Delaware River Railroad 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...

Stone Harbor Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

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The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Dela...

Ocean Street Passenger Railway Company.

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Hall Signal Company.

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Delaware River Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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Seacoast Railroad Company

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Tuckahoe and Cape May Railway Company

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Petersburg and Sea Isle Railroad Company

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Railway Express Agency

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The Railway Express Agency had its origins in the overland stagecoach and pony express services that linked the eastern and western U.S. prior to the building of the transcontinental railroad. In the railroad era, express companies worked with the railroads in handling door-to-door freight shipping. By 1914 there were seven major express companies, and these were consolidated by the Federal Government during World War I into the American Railway Express Agency. In the late 1920s a g...

West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company

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Philadelphia and Brigantine Railroad Company.

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Union Switch and Signal Company

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Employees upset with piece rates, working conditions, and lay-offs walked out of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing plant in East Pittsburgh on June 5, 1914. Organized by the Allegheny Congenial Industrial Union (ACIU), they soon organized marches through East Pittsburgh and Turtle Creek in an effort to persuade workers at other Westinghouse plants to join the walkout. These marches made their way to Swissvale as the ACIU Local No. 2, Union Switch & Signal (US&S) plant, voted to...

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad Company.

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South Jersey Coach Company.

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Pomona Branch Railroad Company.

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