The first train to roll down the Pennsylvania Railroad's tracks was on Sept. 1, 1849. The next year the firm hired Thomas Alexander Scott as the depot manager for Ducansville, PA. He’d later become the company’s most successful and notorious president. #RailroadHistory #history #PennsylvaniaRailroad
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The Pennsylvania Tunnels, New York. Public Domain image from Vintage Railroad Postcards blog http://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com via Wikipedia.
After consolidating control of railroads on the New Jersey side, the #PennsylvaniaRailroad greatly improved both freight & passenger access to NYC by building two single-track rail tunnels under the Hudson. Completed in 1910, they are still in use by Amtrak & NJ Transit today.
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#1980s #PennsylvaniaRailroad #Trains PRR K4 1361 at Tyrone Pennsylvania in 1988, In 1985 after sitting at Horseshoe Curve on static display 1361 was pulled from it's display site into restoration and by 1987 the K4 was pulling excursions across the Keystone state
#1950s #NewJersey #PennsylvaniaRailroad PRR 1361 non other and GG1 4881 at South Amboy NJ in 1954, 1361 was built at Juniata May 1918 and was used on prestigious trains such as The Broadway Limited until diesels took over after WWII eventually being put on display at Horseshoe Curve in 1957
#1950s ##NewJersey #Trains #PennsylvaniaRailroad PRR K4s 3751 and 1361 at Belmar NJ in 1955, This was on the NY&LB which was jointly operated by PRR and CNJ with 1361 ending up in preservation
Character Drawing: Hank the American Engine.
Requested by @abbeyroads.bsky.social
Hank is based on a Pennsylvania Railroad Class K4, featured in Season 12 of #thomasandfriends
#characterdrawing #hanktheamericanengine #pennsylvaniarailroad #therailwayseries #theislandofsodor
If you missed it, check out this interview w/ Professor Albert Churella about the rise and fall (mostly fall) of what was once one of the largest U.S. corporations 📽️ youtube.com/live/iigS9lK... #PennsylvaniaRailroad
#BizHis #Trains #BusinessHistory #AmericanHistory
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In my free time recently i got curious and tried a triple header K4 pull of 35 loaded hoppers from altoona to Johnstown in #Trainsimulatorclassic it was a ruff run and required helpers but it was successful in the end.
#pennsylvaniarailroad #vtuber #train #trains #steamlocomotive #horseshoecurve
#Inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025day20 #inktober2025rivals #inktober2025day20rivals #inktoberday20 #rivals #NewYorkCentralrailroad
#Pennsylvaniarailroad
Since I've had a bit of free time I've been messing around with train simulator classic.
As many may have noticed i collected PRR ho scale locomotives so mostly all my Train simulator classic dlcs are PRR related.
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#Trainsimulatorclassic #vtuber #Trains #Train #pennsylvaniarailroad
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Ridley Park station (1942): While working for the PRR, Loewy collaborated with architect Lester C. Tichy to design the current Ridley Park station building, which opened in 1942.
#urbansketching
#watercolor
#raymondloewy
#pennsylvaniarailroad
#ridleyparkpa
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I need my store Uncle Ray Trains is closing in a few months please buy any new train stuff to help them run please they it if you live near Sheffied lake Ohio go visit them please #amtrack #nyc #unionpacific #pennsylvaniarailroad #ohioandbaltimore #atsf
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the Pennsylvania Railroad now offers through its great network of through service. Coast-to-coast ... to New England ... Eastern Canada ... the South ... the Southwest - all without changing of cars!'
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Pennsylvania Railroad
*Collier’s* May 29, 1948
#illustrationart #railroads #PennsylvaniaRailroad #PassengerTrain #1940s
#THISWEEK in 1948
‘Now . . . A complete Recreation Car Especially Designed for Your Pleasure’
‘A diagrammatic painting of Pennsylvania Railroad’s new recreation car’
#illustrationart #railroads #PennsylvaniaRailroad #PassengerTrain #1940s
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#TheWhiteHouse #JamesHoban #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #NCWyeth #NewellConversWyeth #GeorgeWashington #architecture #WashingtonDC #PennsylvaniaRailroad
April of 1942 and retired in December of 1953 after just 11 years of revenue service.’
#industrialsublime #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlexanderLeydenfrost #PennsylvaniaRailroad
Harley Wood is an artist whom I have had great difficulty finding any information about. Sadly, I've found only two posters for the Pennsylvania Railroad. I love the New York one... if you know more about Harley let me know
#loveart #thattick #posterart #pennsylvaniarailroad #harleywood
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💡Did you know?
The first-ever press release was issued after a tragic train crash in Atlantic City on October 28th, 1906. Ivy Lee, representing the #PennsylvaniaRailroad, invited the press to cover the incident and provided a factual statement, which The New York Times had published.
#FirstPR #NYT
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Firefighter James McFarland died on March 1, 1894, at #PennsylvaniaRailroad at 6th and Chestnut Streets #Philadelphia, the Drexel Estate, and the Dalsimer Shoe Company. #taphophile #history #CivilWar #MountMoriahCemeteryPhiladelphia Read more at friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org/about/notabl...
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