Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad records, 1830-1975.

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Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad records, 1830-1975.

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The content of the records in the collection reflects the history of the middle years of the two dominant companies. The surviving New York Central records consist mostly of minute books, accounting records and annual reports. The records of the former Pennsylvania Railroad contain correspondence, location files and maps, plans and drawings, as well as accounting records, annual reports and minute books. Non-rail properties of the Pennsylvania Railroad found in the collection include ferry companies, Northwestern Coal & Iron, the Pittsburgh Provision Company and subsidiaries and the Pittsburgh Joint Stock Yards Co. The New York Central's non-rail properties include the Dixon Run Land Company and several coal and coke companies. Some of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal and Clearfield Supply Company records are also included in the New York Central holdings.

521.29 cubic feet + 24 microfilm reels, 1 microfilm index, 527 ledgers.

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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...

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...