Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central railroad publications, 1951-1971.

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Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central railroad publications, 1951-1971.

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The collection consists of house-organ magazines of interest to the employees and customers of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and the Penn Central Railroad, including: The Pennsy, 1962-1968, and The Penn Central Post, 1968-1971. There are also PRR Annual Reports (1951, 1955, and 1959-1961), a PRR message to stockholders (1955), and a PRR publication on a merger with the New York Central Railroad (1962).

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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...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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