The Pennsylvania Railroad and subsidiaries

This is a list of 313 PRR subsidiaries either wholly owned, leased and businesses in which the PRR had partial ownership/interest. This is not a list of predecessor companies, that list numbers over 1100. 

Some of the companies in our list were dissolved by the PRR sometime during PRR ownership. We believe this list is accurate. However if the reader finds an error or omission, please contact us with your research so we can make the updates, thank you.

Company names in orange are links to more information.

Algard Coal Company

Allegheny Supply Company

Allegheny York Valley Railway

Ann Arbor Railroad Company

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Bald Eagle Valley Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore and Potomac

Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad

Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad

Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway

Barnegat Railroad

Bedford and Blair County Railroad

Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad

Bedford and Bridgeport Railway

Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad

Beech Creek Railroad

Bellefonte and Eastern Railway

Bellefonte and Snowshoe Railroad

Bellefonte, Nittany and Lemont Railroad

Bell's Gap Equipment Trust

Bell's Gap Railroad

Belvidere and Delaware Railroad

Berkshire Land Company

Boston and Maine Railroad

Brookville Railroad

Brush Valley Railroad

Buffalo Coal Company

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

Bustleton Railroad

C.I. West Virginia Corporation

Caledonia Street Railway

Cambria and Clearfield Railroad

Cambria and Clearfield Railway

Cambria Land Company

Camden and Atlantic Railroad

Canal and Lake Steamboat Company

Canandagua Lake Railroad

Canton and East Liverpool Railroad

Catonsville Short Line Railroad

Central Elevator Company of Baltimore City

Central Pennsylvania and Western Railroad

Central Pennsylvania Mining Company

Central Railroad of Maryland

Chambersburg and Gettysburg Electric Railway

Chambersburg Land and Improvement Company

Chambersburg Turnpike Road Company

Chartiers Railroad

Chemung Railroad

Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

Chicago and Northwestern Railway

Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway

Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad

Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railway

Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway

Clarke and Company

Clearfield and Jefferson Railroad

Clearfield and Jefferson Railway

Cleveland, Akron and Cincinnati Railway

Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway

Cleveland and Marietta Railway

Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

Colebrook Valley Railroad

Columbia and Port Deposit Railway

Columbia Bridge Company

Columbus and Xenia Railroad

Connecting Terminal Railroad

Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad

Cresson and Clearfield County and New York Short Route Railroad

Cresson and Irvona Railroad

Cresson Railroad

Cresson Springs Company

Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad

Cumberland Valley and Waynesboro Railroad

Cumberland Valley Railroad

Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes Barre Railroad

Delaware and Hudson Company

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

Delaware Railroad

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad

Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg Railroad

Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad

Duquesne Warehouse Company

East Brandywine and Waynesburg Railroad

Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad

Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad

Elmira and Williamsport Railroad

Elmira, Jefferson and Canandaiqua Railroad

Empire Transportation Company

Enola Realty Company

Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad

Erie and Western Transportation Company

Erie and Western Transportation Company--Anchor Line

Erie Canal Company

Fairmount Coal and Coke Company

Finley Company

F.J. Scarr Motor Coach Service

Franklin Railroad Company

Frederick and Northern Railroad

Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad

Germantown, Norristown, and Phoenixville Railroad

Gettysburg and Petersburg Turnpike Company

Girard Point Storage Company

Girardville Railroad

Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad

Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway

Gravel Run Water Company

Great Lakes Coal Company

Greencastle and Maryland Line Turnpike and Plank Road Company

Green Mountain Coal Company

Green Ridge Coal Company and Mammoth Vein Coal Co.

Hanover and York Railroad

Harrisburg and Bedford Railroad

Harrisburg and South Western Railroad

Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambersburg Turnpike Road Company

Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster Railroad

Harrisburg Warehouse Company

Harrison Gas Coal Company

Hollidaysburg, Bedford and Cumberland Railroad

Homer and Susquehanna Railroad

Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company

Illinois Central Railroad

Indianapolis and Madison Railroad

Johnsonburg Railroad

Katharine Water Company

Kensington and Tacony Railroad

Keystone Hotel Company

Lake Ontario and Southern Railway

Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad

Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad

Lancaster, Lebanon and Pine Grove Railroad

Lebanon and Reading Railroad

Lebanon Belt Railway

Leechburg Company

Lehigh and Western Railroad

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad

Lewisburg and Tyrone Railway

Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad

Little Miami Railroad

Littlestown Railroad

Lock Haven and Clearfield Railroad

Logansport and Toledo Railway

Long Island Railroad

Long Run Coal and Iron Company

Lorain, Ashland and Southern Railroad

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Louisville Bridge Company

Lykens Valley Coal Company

Lykens Valley Railroad and Coal Company

Lykens Water Company

Lytle Coal Company

Mammoth Vein Coal Company

Manor Real Estate and Trust Company

Marion Railway Corporation

Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad

​Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway

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Massillon and Cleveland Railroad

Mifflin and Centre County Railroad

Millersburg and Brookside Railroad

Millersburg Railroad

Mineral Railroad and Mining Company

Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Saint Marie Railway

Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad

Missouri Pacific Railroad

Missouri Pacific Railway

Monbel Company

Mont Alto Railroad

Moshannon and Clearfield Railroad

Moshannon Railroad

Mountain View Water Company

Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad 

Nescopec Railroad

Newark and Marion Railway

New Jersey and New York Railroad

Newry Railroad

New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

New York and Long Island Terminal Railway

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad

Norfolk and Western Railway

North and West Branch Railway

Northern Central Connecting Railroad

Northern Central Connecting Railway

Northern Central Railway

Northern Pacific Railway

North Penn Coal Company

Northumberland and Nanticoke Railroad

Ohio River and Western Railway

Olean Petroleum Company, Limited

Orangeville and Lehigh Railroad

Panama Railroad

Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad

Pennsylvania Canal Company

Pennsylvania Company

Pennsylvania Company--Star Union Line

Pennsylvania Company--Union Line

Pennsylvania Midland Railroad

Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad

Peoria and Eastern Railway

Philadelphia and Beach Haven Railroad

Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company

Philadelphia and Erie Railroad

Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Railroad

Philadelphia and Merion Railroad

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad

Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad

Philadelphia, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad

Philadelphia, Norristown and Phoenixville Railroad

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad

Phoenixville and West Chester Railroad

Phoenixville, Pottstown and Reading Railroad

Pine Run Railroad

Pittsburgh and Atlantic Railroad

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

Pittsburgh and Yuba River Mining Company

Pittsburgh and Western Company

Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yougheogheny Railway

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad

Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway

Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad

Pottsville and Mahanoy Railroad

Pullman Company

Reading Company

Reading and Pottsville Railroad Company

Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad  Also see: RF&P theses Loco Photos: Here

Richmond-Washington Company

Ridgeway and Clearfield Railroad

Riverfront Railroad

Rock Island Company

Roxborough Railroad

Rutland Railroad

Scalp Level Railroad

Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad

Seaboard Air Line Railway

Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad

Sharpsville Railroad

Sodus Bay and Southern Railroad

Sodus Point and Southern Railroad

Southern Pacific Company

Southern Pennsylvania Iron and Railroad

Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company

Southern Railway

South Fork Railroad

South Pennsylvania Railroad

South West Pennsylvania Railroad

St. Louis Connecting Railroad

St. Louis Southwestern Railway

St. Louis, Vandalia and Terre Haute Railroad

State Realty Company

Summit Branch Coal Company

Summit Branch Mining Company

Summit Branch Railroad

Sunbury and Erie Railroad

Sunbury and Lewistown Railway

Sunbury, Hazleton, and Wilkes Barre Railway

Susquehanna and Clearfield Railroad

Susquehanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick Railroad

Susquehanna Coal Company

Susquehanna Railroad

Swatara Water Company

Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad

Terre Haute and Logansport Railroad

Terre Haute and Logansport Railway

Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad

Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad

Texas and Pacific Railway

Tipton Railroad

Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway

Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad

Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway

Traverse City Railroad

Trenton Cut Off Railroad

Turbotville and Williamsport Railroad

Turtle Creek Valley Railroad

Tyrone and Clearfield Railroad

Tyrone and Clearfield Railway

Union Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

V Company

Valley Real Estate Company

Vandalia Railroad

Wabash Railroad

Wabash Railway

Waynesburg and Washington Railroad

West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company

West Chester Railroad

West Jersey and Seashore Railroad/West Jersey Railroad

West Jersey Express Company

West Jersey Railroad

West Lane Garage Company

West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Western Allegheny Railroad

Western Maryland Railroad

Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway

Western Pennsylvania Railroad

Western Railroad Corporation

Western Warehousing Company

Western Washington Railroad

Wilcox Railroad

Wilkes Barre and Western Railway

Williamsport and Elmira Railroad

Winslow Water Company

Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad

York and Cumberland Railroad

York and Maryland Line Railroad

York, Hanover and Frederick Railroad

York Haven and Rowenna Railroad

York, Hanover and Frederick Railway

Total 313