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Happy 50th Anniversary, the merger that created the Penn Central.
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The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad was added to the merger in 1969; by 1970, the company had filed for what was, at that time, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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Merger begins
Penn Central (PC) came into existence on February 1, 1968. On that date, the PRR the nominal survivor of the merger changed its name to Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company. It adopted the name Penn Central Company on May 8, 1968. On October 1, 1969, it again changed its name, to Penn Central Transportation Company, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of a new Penn Central Company, a holding company.
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PC locomotives #4801 and #4800, both former PRR GG1s, haul freight through North Elizabeth, New Jersey in December 1975.
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(131,077 posts)Conrail Chugs Off Into the Sunset; CSX and Norfolk Southern Take Over, 1999.
'The companies about to divvy up the huge Conrail system have certainly tried to do their homework.
They bought extra locomotives, laid hundreds of miles of new track, tested computer systems and settled with a multitude of unions. They hired thousands of Conrail workers and managers and spent long hours teaching them what the future would hold.
That future arrives today, as Norfolk Southern and CSX, which already dominate commercial rail traffic in much of the East, take over chunks of Conrail. The switchover will herald the most sweeping change in a generation in the Northeast's commercial railroads -- especially in the New York area.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/01/business/conrail-chugs-off-into-the-sunset-csx-and-norfolk-southern-take-over.html
I'm a retired CSX Engineer and that merger really screwed up our jobs