Penn Central Photos - Tim Vermande

Penn Central was formed by a merger of long-time rivals Pennsylvania and New York Central and the northeastern regional New Haven in 1968. In 1970, it became the largest corporate bankruptcy in American history. Although notorious for such antics as trains derailing while standing still, PC could put on a good show.

PC was large and diverse. It owned the former Pennsylvania Railroad line out of Manhattan to New Jersey and Philadelphia, now part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, one of the most heavily-traveled stretches of railroad in the United States. It ran "streetcar frequency" trains on the former New York Central line out of Chicago. It also had branches that were almost bare of traffic.

When Penn Central became the largest component of Conrail in 1976, many of its more lightly-trafficked lines were spun off into independent short lines. Among them, and those to be found at this site, are Carthage Knightstown & Shirley, Erie Western, Hillsdale County, Indiana & Ohio, Indian Creek, Kankakee Beavervile & Southern, Logansport & Eel River, Louisville & Indiana, Michigan Northern, Plymouth Short Line, Spencerville & Elgin, and Terre Haute Brazil & Eastern.

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