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On July 26, 1856, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road was formed as a consolidation of the Fort Wayne and Chicago, Ohio and Indiana, and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads. Extensions opened west to Warsaw September 28, Plymouth November 10, Englewood, Illinois (south of Chicago) on November 29, 1858, and Van Buren Street in Chicago ...
Fort Wayne Line. The Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), and CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The line runs from Pittsburgh, west via Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Gary, Indiana, [1] along what was once ...
The Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge, listed as the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places, is a double-deck steel truss railroad bridge spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The upper deck carries the Fort Wayne Line with two tracks of Norfolk Southern and Amtrak traffic. The lower deck is unused.
The shops at Fort Wayne, Indiana was also a major repair facility, first established by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway. The yards and shops in Wilmington, Delaware were built to serve the southern section of the system, employing up to 8,000 in the 1920s.
That line opened in 1861, connecting at Valparaiso with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway to Chicago. The Cincinnati and Chicago Air-Line opened a bridge over the Wabash River at Logansport on September 25, 1861, connecting it to the Chicago and Cincinnati. Joint operation between Richmond and Chicago began July 1, 1862, and ended ...
The Pennsylvania Company, later known publicly as the Pennsylvania Lines (west of Pittsburgh) was a major holding company. It included the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, the PRR's main route to Chicago. It also owned but did not operate the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Pan Handle Route), another line to ...
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1856 1861 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR: 1862 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad: PLE PLE 1878 1992 Three Rivers Railway: Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad: PL&W, PLW PLE/ PRR: 1902 1945
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago was incorporated by special acts of the legislatures of the States of Pennsylvania and Illinois, approved March 31, 1860, and February 8, 1861, respectively, for the purpose of reorganizing The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail Road Company.