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Titusville, Cambridge And Lake Erie Railroad
The Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad was a railroad in Pennsylvania originally chartered in 1871, during the Pennsylvania oil rush. Intended to provide an additional outlet from the Pennsylvania oil fields to Erie, Pennsylvania, it graded about ten miles of line in 1872, but was then caught up in the collapse of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, which halted the project. The company was foreclosed and reorganized under new names many times, but accomplished relatively little. It laid a short segment of line in 1890 in Titusville, Pennsylvania which was leased to a subsidiary of the New York Central to be used as a siding to a tannery. Further construction took place in 1913 with the idea of opening it as an electric railway to Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, Cambridge Springs, but this, too, was never completed. Oil boom The Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad was chartered on September 13, 1871, to build a line of from Erie, Pennsylvania east to Tidioute, Pennsylvania. Adalber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Oil Rush
The oil rush in America started in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek (Allegheny River), Oil Creek Valley when Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there in 1859. Titusville and other towns on the shores of Oil Creek expanded rapidly as oil wells and oil refineries, refineries shot up across the region. Oil quickly became one of the most valuable commodities in the United States and railroads expanded into Western Pennsylvania to ship petroleum to the rest of the country. By the mid-1870s, the oil industry was well established, and the "rush" to drill wells and control production was over. Pennsylvania oil production peaked in 1891, and was later surpassed by western states such as Texas and California, but some oil industry remains in Pennsylvania. Pre-rush history Pre-Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company Before petroleum was used as a fuel, oil had many uses. In Pennsylvania, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American tribes had been using oil from seeps for several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
