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Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

Index Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. [1]

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Allegheny River

The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River; it is located in the Eastern United States.

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Amusement park

An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (but commonly or;MacKay, p. 29. November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist.

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Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge

The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge it is a truss bridge that carries the Canadian National Railway's Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad division across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh suburbs of Plum and Harmar Township, Pennsylvania.

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Branch line

A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.

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Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad

The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad is a Class II railroad operating in New York and Pennsylvania.

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Butler, Pennsylvania

Butler is a city and the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Carnegie Steel Company

Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates, to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.

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Centralized traffic control

Centralized traffic control (CTC) is a form of railway signalling that originated in North America.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Conneaut Lake Park

Conneaut Lake Park is a summer resort and amusement park, located in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Conneaut, Ohio

Conneaut is a city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States, along Lake Erie at the mouth of Conneaut Creek.

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Conrail

Conrail, the Consolidated Rail Corporation,, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999, when its routes were split between the CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway.

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CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Erie Lackawanna Railway

The Erie Lackawanna Railway, known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.

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Girard, Pennsylvania

Girard is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Lakes Transportation

Great Lakes Transportation LLC is a group of transportation related companies primarily consisting of rail and water carriers catering to the needs of the steel making industry centered on the Great Lakes of North America.

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Greenville, Pennsylvania

Greenville is a borough in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Homewood, Illinois

Homewood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Kenneth C. Springirth

Kenneth Charles Springirth (born 1939) is a United States author, activist, politician, guest-speaker, photographer, and railroad historian.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

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.

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Penn Hills Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Penn Hills is a home rule municipality, formerly a township, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a toll highway operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Providence and Worcester Railroad

The Providence and Worcester Railroad is a Class II railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming.

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Railroad classes

In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, II, or III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board.

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Regional Railroad of the Year

The Regional Railroad of the Year is an annual award given to exemplary North American regional railroads by rail transport industry publication Railway Age.

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Transtar, Inc.

Transtar, Inc. is a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

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U.S. Steel

United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe.

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Union Railroad (Pittsburgh)

The Union Railroad is a Class III switching railroad located in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania.

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Wisconsin and Southern Railroad

The Wisconsin and Southern Railroad is a Class II regional railroad in southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois currently operated by Watco Companies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_and_Lake_Erie_Railroad

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