Pittsburgh Allegheny & McKees Rocks

Company History: PAM was born in 1899 from a three-way merger between North Shore Terminal Railroad, McKees Rocks Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Allegheny Railroad. Despite the grand name, PAM serves just 5 miles of track in an industrial park in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The original connections were with the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh Chartiers & Youghiogheny, and the Baltimore & Ohio. The B&O connection was actually via a car ferry operation over the Ohio River. The car ferry operation was short-lived. Today the connections are with CSX and Pittsburgh & Ohio Central.

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