Allen J. Greenough

Allen J. Greenough (September 20, 1905 – September 21, 1974) was the 14th and last president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Private life and education He was born on September 20, 1905, in San Francisco, California, to Ernest Allen Greenough and Nellie Jackson. He married Jean Lytel on April 8, 1933. They had two children, Allen Lytel Jackson and Norman Jackson.

He was educated at Princeton Prep School in Princeton, New Jersey, until 1923. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1928.

Memberships New York Railroad Club, American Railway Engineering Association, Presbyterian; Republican, Freemasonry Sundbury Lodge 713, Williamsport, Pennsylvania Consistory, Thirty-second Degree Zembo Shrine. The Round Hill Club, Pine Valley Golf Club, Rolling Rock Club, The Metropolitan Club, New York Presidents Club, and the Chi Psi executive council.

Legacy In 1976 the US government created the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) to handle the former Penn Central components, along with other bankrupt or financially struggling lines in the industrial Northeast. Included among the roads were the Ann Arbor, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh and Hudson River, Lehigh Valley, and the Reading. Conrail was privatized in 1986 and sold to CSX and Norfolk Southern between 1998 and 1999, CSX taking most of the former Central routes, and NS taking most of the former Pennsylvania components. Ironically, CSX and NS are the corporate descendants of the Appalachian coal haulers that once subsidized the Central and the Pennsylvania.