Pennsy

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Proper noun

Pennsy

  1. (rail transport, dated) a nickname for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
    • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., pages 32, 112:
      [page 32, caption] Pennsy's postwar Q2 employed the duplex-drive layout to ease the main-rod load and improve steam distribution on what otherwise would have been the 4-10-4 wheel arrangement.
      [page112] The role of unifying the insolvents into a truly national system fell to U.S.-born and Pennsy-trained Sir Henry Thornton (who went to Canada via the Long Island and England's Great Eastern).

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