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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...
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Engineering Dept.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's "Engineer Department" was first created on April 9, 1847, when the Board of Directors appointment of J. Edgar Thomson, a Pennsylvania native then serving on the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company, as Chief Engineer. At the same time, and without Thomson's approval, they appointed Edward Miller and William Barclay Foster, Jr., both of whom had long experience with the Pennsylvania Public Works and Pennsylvania railroad companies, as Associate E...
