Records, 1840-1937.

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Records, 1840-1937.

Correspondence, subscription loan records, and stock transfers, of a Trenton, N.J., company, whose tracks and property were leased to Pennsylvania Railroad in 1872 for 999 years.

5 ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8050739

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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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...

United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

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