Records 1852-1980.

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 ...

New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

Midwest Railroad Historical Foundation.

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Northeast Ohio railroad enthusiasts club which was formed in 1945 as the Midwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. In 1955 it incorporated as the Midwest Railroad Historical Foundation. From the description of Records 1852-1980. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17975216 The Midwest Railroad Historical Foundation was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1945 as the Midwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. In December 1955, the...

Erie Railroad Company

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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway

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Railway system formed in 1869 by the merger of four railroads, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, the Cleveland and Toledo, the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula, and the Buffalo and Erie. In 1914 it was merged into the New York Central system. From the description of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company records, 1849-1909 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 48861827 From the description of Records 1849-1909. (Rhinelander ...

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company

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On 31 August 1868 the Covington and Ohio Railroad Company and the Virginia Central Railroad Company merged to form the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. In 1870 the Blue Ridge Railroad was added to the company. After defaulting, the company was reorganized in 1878 as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. The road ran from Ft. Monroe, Va. to Chicago, Ill. Today, after many mergers, the company is part of CSX Transporation. From the description of Records, 1836-1943. (Unknown). ...

Penn Central Transportation Company

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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...

Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company

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New York railroad formed by the merger of the Erie Railroad with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad on Oct. 17, 1960. On April 1, 1968, the railroad merged with the Erie Lackawanna Railway Company of Delaware. On June 26, 1972, Erie Lackawanna Railway Company entered reorganization proceedings under federal bankruptcy act; in course of proceedings most of rail assets were required by law to be conveyed on Apr. 1, 1976 to Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); on November 30, 1982,...

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

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Railroad founded in 1881 to connect Buffalo and Chicago via Cleveland. It was nicknamed the Nickel Plate Road. After it failed it was taken over by the newly organized New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad in 1887. It merged into the Norfolk and Western Railroad in 1964. From the description of Records 1846-1961. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725622 Nickel Plate Road on Oct. 16, 1964 was absorbed via merger by the N & W, or Norfolk and Western...

Cleveland Union Terminals Company

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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...