Records, 1899-1971.

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)

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"Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program. From the description of New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122580393 From the guide to the New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940, (The...

New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N.Y.)

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (N.Y.).

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Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

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Trailer Train Company

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Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Company.

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Clement, Martin W. (Martin Withington), 1881-1966

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Passenger Service Improvement Corporation of Philadelphia

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Central Airlines

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Hagerty, Harry C., 1892-1977.

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

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The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Dela...

New Gauley Coal Corporation.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Employees' Provident and Loan Association.

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Fruit Growers Express Company.

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Keystone Warehouse Company.

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Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company.

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Alleghany Corporation

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Fahnestock, James F. (James Frederick), 1859-1924

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Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company

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Alko Express Lines.

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Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company

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New York railroad formed by the merger of the Erie Railroad with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad on Oct. 17, 1960. On April 1, 1968, the railroad merged with the Erie Lackawanna Railway Company of Delaware. On June 26, 1972, Erie Lackawanna Railway Company entered reorganization proceedings under federal bankruptcy act; in course of proceedings most of rail assets were required by law to be conveyed on Apr. 1, 1976 to Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); on November 30, 1982,...

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, originally named Louisa Railroad in Louisa County, Virginia, was founded in 1836 and reached the foot of the Appalachian Mountains at what is now Clifton Forge by 1850. For more information, please see the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collections' Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad web page. From the description of George Washington's railroad Chesapeake and Ohio Lines correspondence, 1935. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 213416394 ...

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company

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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. was headquartered at 49 Wall St., New York, N.Y. It had many local stations, including one in New Milford, Pa. D. W. Hagen was an agent at the New Milford Station in the 1870s. From the description of Receipt book, 1853-1862, 1875-1888. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261228863 The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was one of the largest and most prosperous anthracite mining and transporting co...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Treasury Dept.

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Susquehanna Coal Company.

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Delaware and Raritan Canal Company (N.J.)

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The Delaware and Raritan Canal Company operated a lock canal between New Brunswick and Bordentown, N.J., with a navigable feeder from Lambertville, between 1834 and 1932. The canal formed part of an inland water route between New York and Philadelphia. From the description of Regulations and rates of toll, 1856 March 18. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 79891952 ...

American Airlines, inc

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Pan American Aviation, inc.

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Tipton, Stuart G. 1910-1981.

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Symes, James M. (James Miller), 1897-1976

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Lykens Valley Rail-Road and Coal Company.

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Pabst, George H. 1888-1963.

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Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad

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United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

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Pennsylvania Company.

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Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway Company.

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Susquehanna Collieries Company.

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Mackinac Transportation Company.

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Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference

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Raritan River Rail Road

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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company

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Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad Employes.

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Jersey City Stock Yards, Inc.

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Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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North American Aviation

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Toledo Terminal Railroad Company

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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Erie Railroad Company

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Wabash Railroad

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Montour Railroad Company

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Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.

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Norfolk and Western Railway Company

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Reorganized in 1896 from Norfolk and Western Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1896-1969. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420979 The Norfolk and Western Railroad was created and organized in 1881 when Clarence H. Clark and his associates purchased property and franchises belonging to the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company. As a result of the purchase, the combined track length owned by Clark and associates was just over 400 miles. By 1900...

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Monbel Company.

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Chicago Union Station Company

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The new building known as Union Station (Chicago, Ill.) opened in 1925 at 210 South Canal Street. Its predecessor building, known as the Union Passenger Station (Chicago, Ill.), was at the northeast corner of S. Canal and W. Adams Streets (1881-1923), a site later occupied by the 120 Riverside Plaza building. From the description of Chicago Union Station Company records, 1915-1945. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 709914849 ...

Railway Express Agency

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The Railway Express Agency had its origins in the overland stagecoach and pony express services that linked the eastern and western U.S. prior to the building of the transcontinental railroad. In the railroad era, express companies worked with the railroads in handling door-to-door freight shipping. By 1914 there were seven major express companies, and these were consolidated by the Federal Government during World War I into the American Railway Express Agency. In the late 1920s a g...

Ross, T. J. 1893-1975.

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Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad Company.

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New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

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The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Bevan, David C. (David Crumley), 1906-1996

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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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 ...

Transcontinental Air Transport

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Lee, Henry H. (Henry Haworth), 1880-1941

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Women's Aid of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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American Pipeline Company.

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Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.)

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Pennsylvania Airlines and Transport Company.

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Pullman Company

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York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company. From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944 Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal sub...

Eastern Air Transport

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Union Transportation Company

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Smathers, George A. (George Armistead), 1913-2007

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George Armistead Smathers (b. Nov. 14, 1913, Atlantic City, N.J.-d. Jan. 20, 2007, Indian Creek Village, Fla.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Florida, graduated from the University of Florida law school in 1938. During World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. He was elected as a Democrat to two terms in the Congress, serving from 1947 to 1951, and was elected to the Senate, serving three terms from 1951 to 1969. From the description of Smathers...

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Voluntary Relief Dept.

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Schotter, H. W. 1887-1958.

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Gerstnecker, W. R. 1914-1984.

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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...

Little Kanawha Syndicate.

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Greenough, Allen J. (Allen Jackson), 1905-1974

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Consolidation Coal Company

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Consolidation Coal Company (Maryland): The Consolidation Coal Company was incorporated in Maryland on March 8, 1860, for the purpose of effecting a merger of a number of coal operators mining the Georges Creek basin in Allegany County, Maryland. Because of the Civil War, during which Confederate armies frequently blocked the region's only outlet to market, the company was not actually organized until April 19, 1864. Starting life as the dominant operator in this small but significan...

Monongahela Railroad Company.

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West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company

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Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad

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Richmond, Va. railroad company. From the description of Papers, 1863-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36437730 ...

Long Island Rail Road Company.

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Penn Center (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Ann Arbor Railroad Company

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The Ann Arbor Railroad began in 1878. The line began in Toledo, Ohio and ran northwest through Ann Arbor to Frankfort and Elberta, Michigan. It was officially incorporated on September 21, 1895. The railroad ran a Great Lakes car ferry service from 1892 to 1982. In 1976, the Michigan Department of Transportation bought the northern part of the railroad (the railroad had declared bankruptcy in 1973). In order to keep the entire line operating, the state bought the southern part in 1980. By 1988-1...

Wabash Railway Company

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Harborside Warehouse Company.

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Canton Company of Baltimore

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Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc.

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Broad Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pennsylvania Truck Lines, Inc.

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Indianapolis Union Railway Company

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The Indianapolis Union Railway Company was founded in the 1850s. The company owned and maintained the Indianapolis Union Station and in 1882 leased the railway equipment, track, and facilities of the Indianapolis Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company. Since its creation this railroad entity was for the purpose of easing and streamlining the exchange of freight and passengers between the different railroad companies that ran through Indianapolis. In April of 1976 the ownership of IURC was transfe...

New York and Long Branch Railroad Company.

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Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934

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A member of the Princeton Class of 1898, Lee first worked as a journalist in New York and held a press job with the Democratic National Committee. Post-1904, he was an adviser on public relations to leading industrialists, such as John D. Rockefeller and the Guggenheims. In 1916, he opened Ivy Lee and Associates, a public relations firm that took on many prominent clients, including various investment houses, industrial organizations, and philanthropic institutions. Lee was the author of a numbe...

New Jersey, Indiana, and Illinois Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Indiana in 1902; line opened in 1905; ran from South Bend to Pine, Ind. (11.32 miles). From the description of Records, 1921-1950. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420016 ...

Washington Terminal Company

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Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad Company

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National Express Company

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Franklin, Walter S. (Walter Simonds), 1884-1972

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad's Financial Dept. was created on May 2, 1851. On November 23, 1852, it was divided into a Treasury Department and an Auditor's (later Accounting) Department. The Treasury Department was generally considered a subdivision of the General Office Department until 1887. The Treasury Department was renamed the Financial Department on November 1, 1955, and on March 1, 1958, it absorbed the Accounting, Insurance, and Employee Benefits Departments as divisions. At t...

Fox, P. D. 1908-1992.

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Merchants Warehouse Company.

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Granite Improvement Company.

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Terminal Warehouse Company of Baltimore City.

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Western Air Express Corporation

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Pocahontas Land Corporation

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Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company.

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Cincinnati Union Terminal Company

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The Cincinnati Union Terminal Company was created to build a united terminal for Cincinnati to replace the many stations scattered throughout the city. This would be shared by seven railroad companies, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Norfolk and Western Railway, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Southern Railway Company. The site selected for this termin...