From 1882 to April 1, 1947, Birsdall was located on the main line of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad and predecessors.

Richburg was served ( 1881 – 1890 and c. 1906-1946 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, and ( 1881 – 1885 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ) The early PS & N predecessors and the BE & C were 36 " narrow-gauge railroads while the PS & N was a standard-gauge railroad.

The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad embargoed operation through Richburg in 1946 and was abandoned by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1946 to further promote highway motor truck transportation.

Previous businesses included the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad.

Bolivar was served ( 1881 – 1947 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, ( 1881 – 1893 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ), and ( 1903 – 1926 ) by the Olean, Bradford & Salamanca Railway ( OB & S ) and predecessors.

Bolivar was served ( 1881 – 1947 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, ( 1881 – 1893 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ), and ( 1903 – 1926 ) by the Olean, Bradford & Salamanca Railway ( OB & S ) and predecessors.

* January 3 – Tired of its cars being routed to the Boston and Maine Railroad by mistake, the Brookville and Mahoning Railroad of Pennsylvania changes its name to the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad.

The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad, also known as the Shawmut Line, was a short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in central and southwestern Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad is often confused with the similarly named Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad from which the P & S had its origins.

The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad Company began life on July 21, 1903 as the Brookville and Mahoning Railroad, leased by the Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad.

The Genessee & Wyoming operated the Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad under its own banner until January 1, 2004 when it was absorbed into the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad, another G & W company.

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A relic of the city's coal mining days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in 1885, and one of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States ( even though its headquarters moved several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed ).

Patrick Falconer, who was on the Board of Directors of the Allegheny & Pittsburg Railroad, donated a large tract of the land through town to the railroad concern.

In 1980 the Kemmerer Coal Co. was sold to the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, now a subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation.

Over the ensuing decade, the line grew through construction and acquisition of other roads, such as the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway, to become a through route between Kansas City and Port Arthur, Texas, with the final spike being driven north of Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1897, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company ( KCP & G ) was completed.

The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad is often confused with the similarly named Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad which was a spinoff company from the PS & N.

The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad began life on August 2, 1899, as the merger of five small railroads in New York and Pennsylvania.

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Describing the gravel and sand knolls, “ Between Greenville and Richmond, along the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, they are unusually clustered, and are worked by that company in many points ”.

The Fort Smith and Western Railroad and the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway ( bought by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1900 ) transported the products to outside markets.

In 1895-1896, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ( later owned by the Kansas City Southern Railroad ) established a station at the present site of Spiro, which it connected directly to Fort Smith, Arkansas, According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture this attracted residents from the nearby town of Skullyville and soon made Spiro the principal town in this area.

By 1895, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ( later known as the Kansas City Southern Railway ) laid tracks through the area, the Kedron post office moved closer to the railroad and a marble quarry, and was renamed as Marble.

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On February 23, 1870, the Little Miami Railroad leased in perpetuity, renewable forever, all of its assets, including the DX & P, the D & W, and the C & X, to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway, retroactive to December 1, 1869.

* March 24-The Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad, which eventually became the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway after a foreclosure sale, is chartered in Pennsylvania.

* Northeast Oklahoma Railroad: December 27, 1963 ( Division dissolved February 27, 1967 ; Roads involved include: NEO RR, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Interurban Railroad, Joplin and Pittsburg Railway and Oklahoma Traction Company )