[Pennsylvania Railroad court proceedings]. [1855-1858]

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[Pennsylvania Railroad court proceedings]. [1855-1858]

Collection consists of published court documents pertaining to O'Hara et al. vs. Pennsylvania Railroad and Robert Wightman vs. Pennsylvania Railroad.

5 items ; 22 cm.

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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...