 The Pennsylvania Company also operated the trackage rights from Stoneboro to Oil City.The New Castle and Franklin Railroad opened the line from New Castle to Mercer Junction in 1873 and to Stoneboro in 1874.The NC&F was sold at foreclosure and reorganized in 1881 as the New Castle and Oil City Railroad, which was merged into the Oil City and Chicago Railroad and then the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad in 1882.