The Pennsy was published by the PRR from 1952 thru 1068 for its employees and the public.
The first issue was in June, 1952, and it was published monthly through 1953. It 1954 it was reduced to 11 issues per year, with July and August combined. In 1958, it changed to bimonthly. In 1964, it was reduced to four issues (March-April, May-June, July-Aug, and Sept-Oct), then it was further cheapened with the move to a semimonthly tabloid, which continued to the PRR-NYC merger. The last issue was dated Feb. 1, 1968
The index below, offers many issues in Adobe Acrobat format which you may download and view or purchase on CD-ROM.
Thanks to Dan Cupper and Alan Buchan for providing some of the background information on this publication.
Please do not submit additions to this index at this time. I am still entering data from my own collection. Thank you.
| Volume, Issue | Release | Contents | |
| 3, #11 CD-ROM #4 |
December 1954 | Birthday Photograph of The Curve Fun food and Railroad Talk -- Pennsy Family clubs Get Underway An Average Day in the Barrel Ellis Gray, Toymaker Darn Fine Railroader A Steel Mill For Germany Night School for Station Agents PRR Men Battle Rainstorms, Floods, and...Hurricane Hazel |
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| 3, #10 CD-ROM #4 |
November 1954 | Newsprint Demands Careful Handling Pennsy Family Clubs He Makes Safety Rules Easy to Remember How to Sell Pennsy TrucTrain Service Brotherhoods Urge Members to Tell Congress: Keep Mail on the Rails "South Pacific" Rides Again and Again on the PRR Altoona Scores Again with Pony League Mr. Smith's Marvelous Machine "Trainer" of Superintendents Enlivening Retirement: He Carves Wood 13,000-Mile Vacation, Entirely By Rail |
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| 3, #9 CD-ROM #4 |
October 1954 | PRR Man's Invention Helps Fight Hotboxes Claude Hart Talks About His Real Boss The Winning Name: Pennsy TrucTrain Service Pop Liked Hunting Water For Lovington -- From Neighbor PRR Operation Overhead -- New Boost for LCL Business Green Thumb Railroaders Washington Draws Schools to PRR Musical PRR People Help Revive Altoona's Symphony Octogenarian Athlete |
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| 3, #8 CD-ROM #4 |
September 1954 | Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Ice, Nor Fog Can Stop PRR's Trailers on Flatcars Here Come the Elephant's on the PRR PRR Family Rears a Concert Star The Indians Knew Something and It Helps the PRR Operation Picnics Shingle Splitter, Pioneer Style Ore From Labrador Fred Gastineau and his "Full Deck" Little Giant What Happened at Pittsburgh |
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| 3, #7 CD-ROM #4 |
July-August 1954 | Chairmen Cheer Mr. Symes Never A Dull Moment Trainmen Honor 'Old Timers' Wagner's 'Big Top' Electrification Mr. Stoner's Farewell 'Hackemeyer's Railroad' Women's Aid of the PRR Uncle Bud's 100th Birthday |
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| 3, #6 CD-ROM #4 |
June 1954 | New PRR Service: Trailers on Flatcars James M. Symes Selected as President of the PRR Walter S. Franklin Retires from Presidency of Railroad Patrons Rate Courtesy Highest $500 Price Offered for the Best Name for Rail-Trailer Service Giant New PRR Ore Pier PRR Men Help Build Autos It's Always Fair Weather When Yardmasters Get Together Elaine Changes Her Mind Atlantic City: "Bathing Village" at the End of a Railroad |
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| 3, #5 CD-ROM #4 |
May 1954 | Up Then Down Big Volume Vital to PRR to Make Even Small Profit Big Investment and Big Debt Give PRR Tools for Big Job $1.93 a Day PRR is Prepared for Future The Railroad's Equipment |
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| 3, #4 CD-ROM #4 |
April 1954 | Red Caps They See Around Corners Red Arrow Gives Service Man & Wife Housebuilders PRR's Newest Branch Millerstown Gets a Church Block Operators Help Town "Safety More in '54" The "Regulatory Climate" Station Agents, Unlimited |
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| 3, #3 CD-ROM #4 |
March 1954 | Per Diem is Big Money Friend Indeed Fighting Railroad Escape from Limbo Indiana Pupils Like PRR Dudek's Heroism 99 Years on the PRR Florida: "PRR Territory" Never Too Late to Learn PRR men's Blood Bank |
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| 3, #2 CD-ROM #4 |
February 1954 | Horsehoe Curve Caretaker of the Curve PRR Men's Friend Capetwon to Glasgow The "Cat's Whiskers" Customers Okay Trainmen Friend Maker, Money Saver Housecleaning in a Hurry Joy to Orphans Expert Cabinet Maker |
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| 3, #1 CD-ROM #4 |
January 1954 | Hostshot: The New Steeler Construction Begins at Penn Center When a PRR Man Dies New Conway Yard PRR Man's "Brilliant Way" Brotherhood Leaders Urge Members to be Salesmen Race Horses Ride Deluxe Careful-Handling Contest Camera Artist Grandma is On the Job He Dedclaims Heroism |
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| 2, #12 CD-ROM from John Keel |
December 1953 | Santa Travels on Rails War Prisoner Comes Home Violin Maker Harrisburg's Specialists on Diesel-Electrics Uncle Billy Goes Gunning Royal Ride The 1,125 "Daughters" of John Edgar Thomson Good Neighbors Artist in Wood Ken Jenkins Joins PRR Mail Pouch PT's Bowlers |
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| 2, #10 CD-ROM from John Keel |
October 1953 | The World's Greatest Housekeeper on Wheels Mr. Salzarulo's Bell Yardmasters Must Plan While They Work USO Entertainers Two Weeks on a "Skyhook" PRR Men in Korea On the Elmira Branch It's A Dog's Life How the PRR Smooths "Washboard Rail" Mail Pouch "Million-Mile" Traveler |
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