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Pennsy
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English
Etymology
en Pennsylvania influenced by en -y.
Proper noun
en rail dated A nickname for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
en 1959 Steam's Finest Hour David P. Morgan Kalmbach Publishing Co. 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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en ennpsy spenny Spenny
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