Papers, 1920-1974.

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...

Delaware River Port Authority

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Test Dept.

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Port Authority Transit Corporation

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Altoona Test Plant.

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Keller, W. M. (William McKinley), 1901-1974

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William McKinley Keller, a railroad mechanical engineer and executive, was born in Pittsburgh on August 29, 1901. He received his engineering training at the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State College. Keller entered the railroad industry in 1919 as an apprentice at the Altoona (Pa.) shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. By 1940 he had advanced through several inspector posts to the position of assistant engineer of the test department. In 1941 he became forem...

Erie Lackawanna Railway Company

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The Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company resulted from the merger of two companies in 1960. These were the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (known as Lackawanna). Both roads were based primarily in the northeastern states of Pennsylvania and New York. The Erie offered service from Jersey City, New Jersey (metropolitan New York) to Hammond, Indiana (metropolitan Chicago). In 1968, the Erie Lackawanna became a part of Dereco, a holding company owned by the Norfolk and Western, an...

Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Motive Power Dept.

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Pullman, Inc. Pullman-Standard Division.

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