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PRR (who also designed and built their own locomotives) was a 40% owner of the N&W.
They did share the H21 hopper design and H30 covered hopper but for the most part N&W was left to run it's own show.

There was a proposed mega-merger in IIRC the 1940's that would merge those two and a few others but it was blocked by the ICC.

Would have ended up with a slightly different outcome than the ConRail/CSX/NS system we ended up with in the East.

When CSX and NS split up Conrail, they used the former PRR and NYC reporting marks to determine which road got what equipment. Was odd seeing modern equipment with those marks.