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	Pennsylvania Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pennsylvania Station (normally abbreviated Penn Station) is a label first applied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to several of its grand passenger terminals.
		Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Union Station was renamed Pennsylvania Station on December 17, 1912.
		The station lies along the Northeast Corridor, and is served by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit, as well as PATH and the Newark City Subway (both realigned or extended to the station June 20, 1937, leading to the closure of Manhattan Transfer).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_Station (543 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Pennsylvania Station
		Inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, the waiting room of Pennsylvania Station in New York City was one of the grandest public spaces in the United States.
		The station, designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White and completed in 1910, was demolished in 1964 to make way for the new Madison Square Garden.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461519933/Pennsylvania_Station.html (58 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
		Pennsylvania has ample outdoor facilities for both summer and winter sports.
		Pittsburgh, city in western Pennsylvania and seat of Allegheny County.
		Pittsburgh, University of, public, coeducational institution in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of the University of Pittsburgh System.
	encarta.msn.com /Pittsburgh_(Pennsylvania).html (155 words)

	Bendersville Station-Aspers, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bendersville Station-Aspers is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bendersville_Station-Aspers,_Pennsylvania (392 words)

	Pennsylvania Station
		Several other stations, including the main commuter rail station in Newark, New Jersey, also bear the name; many were formerly stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		New York City's Pennsylvania Station is a large train station located on 32nd Street and 8th Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan.
		Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is now used by a number of passenger rail services including Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, MTA New York City Transit and New Jersey Transit.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/p/pe/pennsylvania_station.html (179 words)

	Pennsylvania Station:Parrissien, Steven :0714834661:eCampus.com
		Pennsylvania Station was tragically demolished between 1963 and 1966 in order to make way for a new office block and the resiting of the Madison Square Garden sports and entertainment complex.
		During its brief but illustrious history, New York's Pennsylvania Station was described as not only the greatest railway station in the world, but also as one of the greatest building projects of the early twentieth century.
		The station was unique in the radical nature in which it was planned; its architecture fused the bombast of Beaux-Arts classicism with the latest steel-frame technology.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0714834661 (108 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Building - The Demolition of Penn Station - 2003.0723
		New York's Pennsylvania Station (1910) by McKim, Mead & White was one of the great engineering and architectural feats of the early 20th century in the United States.
		Pennsylvania Station by McKim, Mead & White in 1910.
		The station remained a civic landmark until its demolition in the 1960s, during which a young photographer documented its demise.
	www.architectureweek.com /2003/0723/building_1-1.html (274 words)

	Columbia News ::: New Penn Station Design Displayed At Wallach Art Gallery Feb. 2
		Pennsylvania Station is currently the nation's most heavily trafficked transportation center.
		The architect Charles Follen McKim (who was also responsible for the design of Columbia's Morningside Heights campus) was aware of the function and urban symbolism of the train station, and conceived the building as a "monumental gateway and entrance to one of the great Metropolitan cities of the world."
		Its role as a monumental gateway to New York City, both at the beginning of the 20th century and as projected in the 21st, is the focus of an exhibition to go on view Feb. 2, at Columbia's Wallach Art Gallery on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/01/pennStation.html (422 words)

	Pennsylvania - Local news and information
		Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, an illustrated quarterly, is available as part of the membership benefits of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster, PA 17602-1499.
		Pennsylvania was the birthplace of President James Buchanan as well as the first state to put its website address on its license plates.
		A Pennsylvania woman beat her eight-month pregnant neighbor with a baseball bat before taking her to a remote area and trying to cut out her unborn baby, a district attorney said Thursday.
	www.insideamerica.com /html/pennsylvania.html (1061 words)

	The PENNSYLVANIA Pages... 30th Street Station
		The station was the most significant part of a project known as The Philadelphia Improvements which joined civic and private interests in revamping the transportation infrastructure of the city.
		The station at 30th Street, on the other hand, had the tracks passing under the station, something made possible by the advent of the electric locomotive.
		The station was fully opened on December 15 of that year, but the remaining tracks did not go into service until two decades later.
	www.chesco.com /~apu/prr/prr_30.html (695 words)

	The PENNSYLVANIA Pages... Suburban Station
		Through passenger traffic would be accommodated by a new Pennsylvania Station at 30th and Market Streets; commuter traffic would be handled jointly by the 30th Street Station and a new combination office building and station structure to be built one block northwest of Broad Street Station.
		Suburban Station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of a 1920’s city-wide project to revamp the transportation infrastructure and correct some railroad-created eyesores.
		Above Suburban’s concourse level station would be a 22-story office structure (the visible part from the street) occupying a city block, 20 floors of which were leased as office space.
	www.chesco.com /~apu/prr/suburban.html (1227 words)

	Pennsylvania Envirothon - Station Testing
		Station testing is designed to provide a challenging, hands-on opportunity for each team to demonstrate and apply their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management.
		As a gardener in a Pennsylvania urban area, you wish to use less water to conserve supplies and cause minimal amounts of runoff and erosion into your urban watershed.
		Students spend 25-35 minutes at each testing station with a 5 minute period for questions and review and a 5 minute period for travel between stations.
	www.envirothonpa.org /stationTesting.shtml (938 words)

	Pennsylvania State Parks - Ryerson Station - PA DCNR
		Ryerson Station State Park is in Greene County in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, near the West Virginia border.
		Pennsylvania State Parks - Ryerson Station - PA DCNR
		The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stocks the lake with trout in spring and late fall.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /stateparks/parks/ryersonstation.aspx (1194 words)

	penn
		The largest building ever erected for rail travel, Pennsylvania Station, commissioned by Pennsylvania Railroad President Alexander Cassatt and built by architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, stood between 31st and 33rd Streets and 7th and 8th Avenues -- over eight acres.
		When Penn Station was originally constructed in 1910, the automobile was in its infancy and you were just as likely to arrive in a carriage as you were in a car.
		Once the servants of the sun, symbols of immortality, the stone birds that had perched atop the station now squatted on a city street, penned in by sawhorses as their station came down around them.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /STREET%20SCENES/Penn%20Station/penn.html (1208 words)

	Penn Station Demolition
		Pennsylvania Station, the monumental 1910 Beaux-Arts masterpiece of architects McKim, Mead and White (who also did Winnipeg's Bank of Montreal, 1913), was leveled, and replaced with the fourth incarnation of Madison Square Garden.
		Plosky, Eric J., The Rise and Fall of Pennsylvania Station, MCP Thesis, MIT, 2000.
		The owner of Penn Station, the Pennsylvania Railroad, was near financial ruin.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~mcgonig/CityPlanning/penn.htm (1562 words)

	30th Street Station
		While the station complex is in large part surrounded by an elevated highway unanticipated in 1925, the absolute scale of the station allows it to retain its architectural integrity and forceful presence despite the changing conditions of the cityscape.
		Further, the station incorporated several features which were novel to station design at the time, including a chapel, a mortuary, and 3,300 square feet of hospital space.
		It was a sub station, however, necessitating a half-hour delay, as trains had to travel to the yard west of the Schuylkill to turn around.
	www.uchs.net /HistoricDistricts/30thstreet.html (1034 words)

	Congressman Frank R. Wolf
		In 1998, Amtrak warned the House Appropriations Committee that, due to the age of the infrastructure and the size of the traveling population, the potential for a deadly accident exists at Pennsylvania Station unless improvements are made rapidly.
		Washington, D.C. Representative Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) today said protecting passengers from a deadly fire in the tunnels beneath Pennsylvania Station should be a higher priority than the ongoing renovation and expansion of the station in New York City, and called for an immediate review of safety repairs in the tunnels.
		These fire and life-safety problems are located in tunnels and areas beneath the existing Pennsylvania Station and James A. Farley Post Office Building and will be completed by Amtrak, the Long Island Rail Road, and the New Jersey Transit Corporation.
	www.house.gov /wolf/news/2000/11-15-Penn_Station_Safety.html (1656 words)

	P.A. Stations : P.A. Railways
		Elsewhere in Pittsburgh, the grand Pennsylvania Station, where the Pennsylvania Railroad once brought thousands of immigrant workers for new jobs in the steel mills, has been renovated into "The Pennsylvanian," a luxury condo complex in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh.
		The station, which was used as a setting in the 1985 film "Witness" starring Harrison Ford, recently underwent a $100 million renovation and still handles a significant amount of rail traffic.
		Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, with its towering ninety-foot high ceilings and neo-classical structure, is a grand tribute to the glory days of railroading.
	www.parailways.com /parailways/aastations.jsp (337 words)

	Articles - Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)
		Pennsylvania Station (generally referred to as Penn Station) is the main train station in Baltimore, Maryland.
		The station was originally known as Union Station, but was renamed to match other Pennsylvania Stations in 1928,
		It is the fifth busiest rail station in the United States by number of passengers served.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Pennsylvania_Station_(Baltimore) (281 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Pennsylvania Station
		Now a building of legend, Pennsylvania station was the grandest, greatest and largest railroad station ever built and designed by the most prestigious architectural firm of the early 20th century, McKim, Mead and White.
		I feel sorry for you, Pennsylvania station was amazing, but its interior was disgustingly ruined.
		But its meant to be a gradual flow into the station and on to the train without being impeded.....London Liverpool Street shares the same architecture of the roof of Penn (over the platforms) and manages to create a awesome light space where you can walk straight on to your train.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=122388 (1393 words)

	KC: Penn Station, Baltimore
		A closeup of the clock on the main facade, and a view of the overhang along the front of the station.
		The fourth is from the outermost platform, looking south towards the lower level of the station.
		A view from the northeast, showing the rear of the station and the concourse over the tracks.
	kc.pennsyrr.com /photos/beckham.html (293 words)

	The Third Rail - The Little Station in the Woods - page 1
		Where the impressive Grand Central Terminal and the magnificent Pennsylvania Station represented New York, even small towns took pride in their stations, frequently raising their own funds to present visitors with a nice first impression of their communities.
		One such station is Avenue H, on the line served by the D and Q trains in Brooklyn, known as the BMT Brighton Beach Line.
		The functions found in railroad station houses are typically found in a mezzanine underground or on a platform suspended beneath an elevated structure.
	rapidtransit.com /net/thirdrail/9912/index.htm (270 words)

	Movies, films and books featuring New York's Pennsylvania Station
		Watch the film again and you will see that Kerr gets out of the taxi near Pennsylvania Station, two long city blocks away from her destination.
		The ones in Penn Station were suspended beneath the steel and glass arches, not hung on a wall.
		She remains in the phone booth long enough to give us a view of the station's magnificent train shed as it was in the 1950s.
	www.powwmedia.com /pennsy/media.htm (856 words)

	April 1998 Focus - Pennsylvania DOT Finds RWIS Station a Wise Investment
		After subtracting operating costs, Pennsylvania DOT estimates that the RWIS station saved the State $20,715 in the first winter studied and $37,132 in the second winter.
		Pennsylvania DOT next looked at the winter storms that struck Venango County to determine the role the RWIS data played in the agency's response.
		The RWIS station provides data that are also used to schedule winter maintenance for much of southern Venango County, not just I-80.
	www.tfhrc.gov /focus/archives/Fcs498/048rwis.htm (763 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Richmond, Indiana.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Station is the focal point of the "Hoosier Bowery" district in Richmond.
		Pennsylvania Railroad Station to once again receive the public in its great hall.
		The second, the Union Passenger Station, was an elaborate Second Empire-style building large enough to allow trains to pass through it.
	www.waynet.org /waynet/spotlight/2001/010824-depot.htm (301 words)

	Pennsylvania Train Stations: Restored and Revisted
		The Latrobe station, as well as the ones in Phoenixville, Berwyn, and Pittsburgh, and the smaller stations that dot the countryside such as the California, Stoneboro, and East Mahanoy Junction stations - all have interesting stories of conversion and love.
		I sat in the bar in the converted railway station in Latrobe surrounded by the ornate stonework encircling building and the handcrafted woodwork along the ceiling of what used to be the grand lobby - now a restaurant.
		But each one was saved from demolition and now lives on, under the care and devotion of proprietors who value the histories and mysteries of the railway days.
	www.patrainstations.org (297 words)

	The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station -Touring Penn Station
		Pennsylvania Station sat on two city blocks, stretching from 33rd to 31st Streets.
		All of the eagles survived the station's destruction.
		It led to the station's main entrance, a Doric columned vestibule.
	www.powwmedia.com /pennsy/rrtour.htm (383 words)

	Pennsylvania Station - McKim, Mead, and White - Great Buildings Online
		"...[Pennsylvania Station] was one of McKim's most monumental and moving designs, a giant of a building that still retained a human scale.
		In catching or meeting a train at Pennsylvania Station one became part of a pageant—actions and movements gained significance while processing through such grand spaces."
		We appreciate your suggestions for links about Pennsylvania Station.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Pennsylvania_Station.html (180 words)

	NWRC - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Field Station
		During 1996, station scientists showed that (a) terpenoid natural products are effective bird and rodent repellents, (b) sensory repellents typically stimulateirritant receptors in the trigeminal system, (c) formulated methyl anthranilate may be useful as a bird repellent in aquaculture, and (d) granular paints may deter gnawing damage by beavers.
		Field Station research has led to the discovery and development of methyl anthranilate as a bird repellent, both solid and liquid attractants for deer, visual repellents for deer and a variety of biologically based repellents and attractants for rodents.
		The Monell Chemical Senses Center is a unique multidisciplinary research center affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.aphis.usda.gov /ws/nwrc/field/philadelphia.html (217 words)

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