The Pennsylvania Special Postcard

From www.railphotoexpress.biz SCHEDULES BEATEN BY 18-HOUR TRAINS Best Equipped Train In the World In 1902 The Pennsylvania Special was inaugurated, replacing the Pennsylvania Limited between New York and Chicago. It was the first all steel train and ran from New York to Chicago in 18 Hours. It was renamed the Broadway Limited in 1912. It was an all Pullman Car extra fare train. "During the 1880s and 1890s, the slogan "Vestibuled Train" was a magic term to railroad publicity departments everywhere. More importantly, this development brought into existence the "train" in the sense we know it today — no longer a series of cars coupled together and pulling together, but a continuous unit for human uses. ... A whole new way of thinking about rail travel developed. You could eat and sleep on trains and arrive in a fraction of the previous time. Vestibuled cars allowed the development of luxury trains during the golden age of rail travel, trains like the Union Pacific's Overland Limited (1890), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Limited,later renamed the Pennsylvania Special The Pennsylvania Railroad was founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the "Pennsy", the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pennsy was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the US throughout its 20th Century existence and was at one time the largest publicly traded corporation in the world. At its peak, it controlled about 10,000 miles of rail line. During its history, the PRR merged with or had an interest in at least 800 other rail lines and companies. The PRR corporation still holds the record for the longest continuous dividend history: it paid out annual dividends to shareholders for more than 100 years in a row. For many years the President of the PRR was considered more powerful than the President of the United States. The budget for the PRR was larger than that of the U.S. government and the Pennsy employed approximately 250,000 workers.