Pennsy
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pennsy
- (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).