Reading Company Law Dept. records, 1833-1979 (bulk, 1920-1976).

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Washington and Franklin Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x45p16 (corporateBody)

Lehigh Valley Railroad Company

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The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company on April 21, 1846, the name being changed on Jan. 7, 1853. It was one of the major anthracite railroads and formed a secondary trunk line between Jersey City, N.J., and Buffalo, N.Y. The railroad's original function was to serve as an outlet from the Lehigh Anthracite Region to tidewater by building along the Lehigh River from Mauch Chu...

Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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Wolverton, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1837-1910

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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...

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Pottsville and Mahanoy Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c87bjz (corporateBody)

Kehoe, John, 1837-1878

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Epithet: of the Decca Record Company British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x00028e ...

Mauch Chunk Iron Company.

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Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk5hft (corporateBody)

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency

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Biographical Notes and Organizational History Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) 1819, Aug. 25 Born, Glasgow, Scotland 1842 Married Joan Carfrae Fled to North America fearing arrest for activities in Chartist Movement, residing first in Mont...

Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx3fz5 (corporateBody)

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...

Bertrand, Charles Edward, 1915-1978

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Fink, Albert, 1827-1897

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Railway construction engineer, railroad executive, and architect. From the description of Albert Fink papers, 1850-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82785985 ...

Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1836-1889

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Franklin B. Gowen, a lawyer, was president of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad Company, 1869-1883. From the description of To the miners and laborers of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, 1877 March 17. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35766271 ...

Tamaqua and Lansford Street Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh5pk2 (corporateBody)

Jeddo Tunnel Company, Limited.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z65pxv (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania-Reading Motor Lines, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj3ng2 (corporateBody)

Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj6msh (corporateBody)

Little Schuylkill Navigation Rail Road and Coal Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt4jgg (corporateBody)

Gangewere, E. Paul 1900-1973.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6st8sd5 (person)

Trailer Train Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z946n4 (corporateBody)

McCalmont, Robert

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Kinter, William L. (William Lewis), b. 1877.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ms4wsx (person)

Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m58mg (corporateBody)

Oakdale Coal and Mining Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d1z6d (corporateBody)

Association of American railroads

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf444q (corporateBody)

The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Southwark Foundry (Philadelphia, Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f3t38 (corporateBody)

Hesse, Alfred W. 1912-1997.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n07jp (person)

Bullitt, John C. (John Christian), 1824-1902

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv52pj (person)

Battin, Joseph, 1806?-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq4rjh (person)

Philadelphia Belt Line Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g211n5 (corporateBody)

Forest Improvement Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh8mw3 (corporateBody)

Reading Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n30rm (corporateBody)

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...

Mays Landing and Egg Harbor City Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66q6xvk (corporateBody)

Reading Dispatch, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp24vr (corporateBody)

St. Clair Coal Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w71msf (corporateBody)

Parry, Edw. Owen (Edwin Owen), 1807-1881

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Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879

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Henry Carey, American economist, was born in Philadelphia and initially devoted himself to the publishing business, which he inherited from his father. He was also interested in economics and in 1836 he published an article entitled, Essay on the rate of wages - subsequently expanded into a 3 vol. work: The principles of political economy, 1837-1840. Carey published numerous other books and essays and his writings were read worldwide, especially in Europe. Other works include, The slave trade......

Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c0t0g (corporateBody)

Philadelphia Criminal Justice Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n45wv (corporateBody)

Philadelphia City Planning Commission

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The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is a municipal agency established in 1929. During the period of this collection the Commission was composed of twelve mayoral appointees, two members of City Council, and one of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. The duties of the Commission were to make recommendations to City Council concerning proposed changes in the city plan or any new public facilities. Its reports, correspondence, plans, minutes, and scrapbooks from 1929 to the present are found...

Conshohocken Pipe Works (Conshohocken, Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w42x7b (corporateBody)

Allentown Terminal Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6741kkd (corporateBody)

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Schuylkill Anthracite Coal Royalty Company.

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Hughes, F. W. 1817-1885.

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McParlan, James, 1844-

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Pleasantville and Atlantic Turnpike or Plank Road Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj7hgh (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company

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The Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company was incorporated as the North Branch Canal Company on April 21, 1858. On May 25, 1858, it acquired a line of canal along the Susquehanna River originally constructed and operated by the State of Pennsylvania. The section from the Northumberland to Nanticoke Pool had originally opened in 1831, that from Nanticoke Pool to Old Forge feeder dam in 1834, and the extension from Pittston to New York state line in 1856. T...

James Yearsley & Brother.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rv5pw3 (corporateBody)

Roberts, George Brooke, 1833-1897

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc8v4g (person)

Green Land Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bw2hg4 (corporateBody)

Associated Railroads of New Jersey.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q57qf7 (corporateBody)

Trunk Line Pool.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn66wt (corporateBody)

Reading Terminal Market (Philadelphia, Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr9r64 (corporateBody)

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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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...

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...

Green, Ashbel, 1825-1898

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Lawyer. From the description of Green, Ashbel, Jr., letters, 1847. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 26784417 ...

Catawissa Railroad Company

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Fisher, Joseph A.

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Robinson, Wirt, approximately 1807-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm32x2 (person)

Lehigh Valley Coal Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63z37sr (corporateBody)

American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg0w98 (corporateBody)

Woodcock, W. I. 1893-1973.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x3d7x (person)

Wolf Creek Diamond Coal Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6130tqh (corporateBody)

Reading Company. Law Dept.

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The Reading Company and its predecessor, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, appear to have had no formal Law Dept. prior to 1883, when Pres. Franklin B. Gowen appointed his former student George R. Kaercher to the post of General Solicitor. Prior to that time, the company solicitors at Philadelphia and the major county seats along its system. The department head's title was changed to General Counsel in 1918, to Vice President & General Counsel in 1945 and to Vice President--La...

Atlantic City & Shore Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd6zrz (corporateBody)

Port Authority Transit Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xw9bg0 (corporateBody)

Bartholomew, Lin, 1834-1880

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v137db (person)

Keim, George de Benneville, 1778-1852.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wm2h4v (person)

Shoemaker, Perry M. (Perry Monroe), 1906-1999

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m62pb0 (person)

Schuylkill Navigation Company

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The Schuylkill Navigation Company constructed a canal along the Schuylkill River from Philadelphia to the anthracite coal field near Pottsville in 1815-1825. From the description of Subscription list for loans, 1824-1824. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86123565 The Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on March 8, 1815, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Schuylkill River above tide. The ...

Heebner, Charles, b. 1859.

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Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company

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The Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on March 24, 1828, and was leased by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company on May 12, 1864. It was extinguished by merger into the Reading Company on October 1, 1951. The first section of the Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad was opened in 1830 from Coal Castle in the Schuylkill Coal Field west of Pottsville, Pa. to Schuylkill Haven on the Schuylkill Ca...

Reading Terminal (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831

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Charles Nicoll Bancker was a merchant and financier. From the guide to the Charles Nicoll Bancker family papers, 1733-1894, 1733-1894, (American Philosophical Society) Stephen Girard was a merchant, banker, and philanthropist. From the description of Papers, 1769-1831. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 17270776 Philadelphia banker and philanthropist. From the description of LS : Philadelphia, to John Curwen, 1802 S...

New Boston Coal Mining Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vj0pzx (corporateBody)

Atlantic City Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63822ht (corporateBody)

Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company

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The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road Company was organized in 1836. It operated in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. In 1902, it became a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Rail Road. From the description of Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company landscaping account book, 1885-1891. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 317496691 ...

Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

United States Railway Association

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In 1973, the United States Congress passed the Rail Reorganization Act, establishing the United States Railway Association (USRA) to develop a plan for a Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail), charged with planning and financing the reorganization of bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. In July of 1974, USRA submitted a Final System Plan to Congress. ConRail was established in 1976, revitalizing the railroads in spite of the deep economic regulation that remained. The Staggers Act ...

Reading and Pottsville Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6741rtm (corporateBody)

Kaercher, George R. (George Ringgold), 1845-1890

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr03rn (person)

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...

Pennsylvania Canal Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r54rzj (corporateBody)

Stone Harbor Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xd62gq (corporateBody)

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bs2ksz (corporateBody)

The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, New York as a protective and insurance organization. By the time of its merger with three other railroad labor unions to form the United Transportation Union in 1969, it had the greatest membership of any of the operating railroad brotherhoods. From the description of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen series 6. General subject files, 1897-1968, bulk 1934-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 6475550...

Penn Gas Coal Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz82q5 (corporateBody)

Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b60c84 (corporateBody)

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, was founded in 1871 to allow its parent corporation to control the transportation of anthracite coal mined in eastern Pennsylvania. The coal company operated mines and coal processing plants, and the finished product was shipped via the railroad's lines. The Philadelphia and Reading Iron and Coal Company became a separate corporation in 1923 after the U.S. government initiated an anti-trus...

Campbell, J. D. b. 1839.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t73mp7 (person)

Ironton Rail Road Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f9qf5 (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60053bf (corporateBody)

Mulloy, H. Merle 1902-1998.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6640sh9 (person)

Brown, Revelle W. (Revelle Wilson), 1883-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn57j2 (person)

General Electric Company

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Founded 1892. Corporate interests include: Broadcasting; Electric Components; Household Appliances; Lighting Equipment; Motors; Telecommunications; Electromedical Industry. From the description of Technical records. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865339 Founded 1892. From the description of General Electric Company in Camden, N.J., collection, 1878-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979711 Schenectady, NY. From the description of Electr...

Junction Railroad Company (1848-1855)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm38cs (corporateBody)

North and West Branch Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60916n9 (corporateBody)

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qv7fdc (corporateBody)

Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

McGinness, E. W. d. 1868.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t4p2b (person)

Phoenix Iron Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d54gjr (corporateBody)

Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62g2p3n (corporateBody)

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g48khb (corporateBody)

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...

L.C.L. Corporation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cs0tzn (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Parkesburg Shops.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67q406f (corporateBody)

Reading Transportation Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc61z8 (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g78fzj (corporateBody)

National Aluminate Corporation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t8mfz (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...

Schuylkill Electric Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc32kx (corporateBody)

Philadelphia Coal Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66h9j1b (corporateBody)

Philadelphia and Reading Relief Association.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6227vkr (corporateBody)

Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Corporation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6644qzt (corporateBody)