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	The Pennsylvania Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Before we discuss the more recent developments of the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is desirable at this point to return to the period of its earlier progress, and to record the development of an interesting pioneer railway destined in due course to become part of the Pennsylvania system.
		The Pennsylvania took over the Camden and Amboy Railroad in, 1871, and all records of early railroad construction agree that this ancient stretch of track was one of the first to be laid anywhere in the United States.
		In 1892 the Pennsylvania Railroad adopted a 4 ft. 8-1/2 in.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r009.html (4633 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was organized in 1846 to provide a better alternative to the Main Line of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whose roots go back to the 1820's and include the first significant modern railway in the United States, the Philadelphia and Columbia.
		The Pennsylvania devised signal consisting of an elevated lamp and a red spectacle-form target, 18' and 15' 8" high, respectively, that rotated 90° as the points were moved to show the position of a switch at a considerable distance, and this signal received much praise from the profession.
		The final remarkable contribution of the Pennsylvania to railroad technology was the cab signal, a representation in the engineman's cab of the state of the block in which he was moving.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/railway/prr/prrsig.htm (19048 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1910 a tunnel under the Hudson River allowed the railroad to reach its new terminal in New York City, known in the mid-1900s as the world's busiest rail station.
		The Pennsylvania RR introduced many innovations to railroading, including air conditioning, electrification, and the practice of loading truck-trailers on flat cars.
		Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation last week released $3.6 million in state funds to help five short line railroads pay for infrastructure repairs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pennrr.html (388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Cumberland Valley Railroad ran between Harrisburg, PA and Winchester, VA. In 1919, the Pennsylvania Railroad absorbed the CVRR into its corporate structure and made it the Cumberland Valley Division (later the Cumberland Valley Branch).
		In 1876, the railroad built a new passenger station at the corner of Third and King streets to replace an inconvenient stub-end terminal two blocks to the northeast.
		Pennsylvania Station survives as "The Pennsylvanian," a high-security, up-scale apartment building, while the AMTRAK station occupies a corner in the basement.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/vck/postcard01.htm (1694 words)

	Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
		Incorporated in Virginia in 1870 for the purpose of consolidating the Norfolk and Petersburg, the Southside, the Virginia and Tennessee, and the Virginia and Kentucky railroads.
		Reorganized in 1880 from the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
		Railroad official for several railroads in the eastern United States in the mid to late 1800s, born in Mt. Carbon, Pennsylvania.
	spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/guiderr.htm (13515 words)

	[No title]
		LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		The bridges over the New York Division passenger and Newark freight tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the main-line tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at the west end of the Meadows Division, are separated by 300 ft. of embankment.
		Brown as Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows Division, with the writer, who was Assistant Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and had been closely associated with Mr.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/8/0/1/18012/18012-8.txt (4186 words)

	PRRdata9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These projects are all of the transit line and terminal district breed: using 650 volts DC supplied by third rail.
		Pennsylvania Railroad electrification, which would one day rule the east, had to crawl before it could walk and walk before it could outrun the prodigious K4s 4-6-2.
		The electrification in terminal areas in New York City started in 1905 when the decision was made to electrify the new Pennsylvania Station, then in the planning stages.
	www.northeast.railfan.net /classic/PRRdata9.html (3498 words)

	Federal Express (passenger train) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Express was a named passenger train run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Washington, DC's Union Station and Boston, Massachusetts's South Station.
		On October 18, 1912 the Federal Express (and the Colonial Express) began using the new Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad into New York Penn Station.
		With the opening of the New York Connecting Railroad and its Hell Gate Bridge on April 1, 1917, the Federal Express was restored via New York City, running through via the new connection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Express_(passenger_train) (405 words)

	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PA) and the history of the railroads in the Delaware River Valley
		The first railroad to have passenger service from Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, which in 1832, started service between 9th and Green Streets in Philadelphia and Germantown.
		On the West Side of the Schuylkill, the Belmont Inclined Plane Railroad was built and eventually taken over and rerouted by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		The profitable Pennsylvania Railroad, which had the leading service to the Midwest, tried to cash-in on the Anthracite industry by building a "Schuylkill" branch in 1884 that paralleled the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad into the coal regions.
	membrane.com /philanet/Philadelphia/railroads (1301 words)

	Hudson & Manhattan Railroad / Hudson Tubes / PATH: Construction
		A newly organized company, New York and Jersey Tunnel Company, took over the completion of the original [uptown] tunnel and the underground segment to Hoboken; the Hudson Companies began on the construction of the new tunnels and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company was organized to be the operator after the system was built.
		a tunnel extension in Manhattan to both Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station (which was still under construction and which was to replace the Jersey City Pennsylvania Station as the PRR's principal New York station) along with a spur to the just-opened IRT subway.
		When the uptown tunnel, each of whose tubes had a diameter of 15 feet 3 inches, was finally completed, it was a double tube 5,650 feet long between shafts and reached a maximum depth of 97 feet.
	www.hudsoncity.net /tubesenglish/1-constructionhistory.html (1859 words)

	South Pennsylvania railroad web page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Pennsylvania Railroad had their weak spot at what is best known as the area between the city of Altoona and the Allegheny Summit which is near Gallitzin, Pennsylvania.
		The South Pennsylvania Railroad had their weakest spot in the area descending the west slope of the Chestnut Ridge.
		It is of the greatest importance to the South Pennsylvania Railroad that a terminal station should be secured for it on the eastern side of the Monongahela River, right in the city.
	www.mediamatinee.com /southpennrr/report.htm (2867 words)

	Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad was an important part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, comprising the tunnels and approaches from New Jersey and Long Island to New York Penn Station.
		Before the tunnel opened in 1910, PRR passengers had to transfer to the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad or a ferry to cross the Hudson River, and LIRR passengers had to take a subway line or ferry across the East River.
		The company was formed on June 26, 1907 as a consolidation of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad, which were the New Jersey and New York parts, respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_Tunnel_and_Terminal_Railroad (500 words)

	Railroad WebRing
		The Railroad Depot is a repository for railroad information and photos, focusing primarly on the model railroad hobby and providing information and tools to model railraoders.
		The railroad that operated to Cape Cod was part of the New York, New Haven & Hartford.
		Railroad and model railroading information and original photos with several links relating to railroads and model railroads.
	m.webring.com /hub?ring=railroadwebring (1722 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed over the Allegheny Mountains.
		This inclined plane railroad operated between 1834-1854 and was considered a technological wonder in its day and played a critical role in opening the interior of the United States to trade and settlement.
		Pennsylvania Railroad #1361, belonging to the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum at Altoona, PA....
	www.creekin.net /k22899-n243-pennsylvania-railroad-pennsylvania.html (535 words)

	LIRR LI City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At Sunnyside the large yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad was constructed.
		An agreement was made with that Railroad and the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company whereby the cars of the Long Island Railroad would be carried through the tunnels under the East River into the Terminal at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street, New York.
		In order to reach this terminal it was necessary to electrify from Jamaica to New York, which was accomplished in 1910, and the first train run into the Pennsylvania Station on September 10th of that year.
	www.trainsarefun.com /lirr/licity/licity.htm (591 words)

	Grand Central Terminal
		On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
		The law regarding Grand Central Terminal and steam locomotives is Chapter 425 of the 1903 legislative session, laws of New York State, titled "An Act to provide for further regulation of the terminals and approaches thereto of the New York and Harlem railroad at and north of Forty-second street in the city of New York.
		NY Station (Pennsylvania Station to the public) was built wholly by the Pennsylvania Railroad; it, and the 2 North River and 4 East River tunnels, including Sunnyside Yard were operated by the Pennsylvania Terminal and Tunnel Company; a subsidiary of the PRR.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/GrandCentral.html (3973 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad — Infoplease.com
		Pennsylvania Railroad, former U.S. transportation company; inc. 1846 by the Pennsylvania legislature.
		In the last decades of the 1800s, especially under the presidency of Thomas A. Scott (1874–80), the railroad rapidly extended its operations between the East Coast and the Mississippi River and between the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
		In 1968, after a long legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania RR merged with the New York Central RR to form the
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/bus/A0838183.html (304 words)

	PTT - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		PTT is an acronym that may stand for:
		Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad (the owner of the tunnels to New York Penn Station);
		Platform Terminal Transmitter (satellite tag for wildlife tracking).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/PTT (68 words)

	Railroad Name Index--M
		Controlled Battle Creek and Sturgis; Canada Southern; Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw; Detroit Manufacturers; Detroit River Tunnel; Detroit Terminal Railroad; Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee; Grayling, Twin Lakes and Northeastern; Indiana Harbor Belt; Joliet and Northern Indiana; Lansing Manufacturers; Lansing Transit; Saginaw Bay and Northwestern; St.
		Abel F. Fitch correspondence: 13 letters (1851) written from Detroit, Michigan, to his wife Amanda, concerning his arrest and trial for setting fire to the Michigan Central Railroad depot in Detroit with fellow alleged conspirators because of the railroad's refusal to install fences along their tracks.
		John Townsend papers: 1 letter (1847) from Allen Munroe, relating primarily to the condition of the Southern Railroad in Michigan.
	www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/mhchome/railroad/rrnamem.htm (3269 words)

	RAILROAD.NET :: View topic - ERIE Tunnel near DL&W Bergen Tunnels
		It is below, and to the right, of the Bergen Tunnels when entering toward Hoboken, and has ERIE on the top of the arch.
		There was a idea of using the arches and this tunnel for a highway to the Holland Tunnel, but I think the plan was shot down.
		The tunnel that you are referring to is also called the Bergen tunnel on the National Docks Branch.
	www.railroad.net /forums/viewtopic.php?t=2680 (424 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad History
		Our roots reach back to some of the earliest days or railroading, when railroads were the newest and fastest means of transportation.
		From its earliest days, the Pennsylvania Railroad and its predecessors have served as vital links between towns and cities, and even helped bridge the country for the first time.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Corporation is comprised of three subsidiary railroads: The Pennsylvania Rail Lines, the Colorado and Southern Railroad, and the Rio Grande Western Railroad.
	homepage.mac.com /eric220/pennsy/history (2532 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New York tunnel extension, The Pennsylvania Railroad: Description of the work and facilities (Vol.
		This two-volume set from ASCE provides detailed technical information about the PRR’s New York tunnel extension project including all the Society’s papers descriptive of the project.
		Volume one covers, North River Division, East River Division, Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard, Bergen Hill Tunnels, North River Tunnels, Terminal Station West, site of the Terminal Station, cross-town tunnels, and East River Tunnels.
	lib.sdstate.edu /PRR/Bk_ASCE1.html (159 words)

	Robert M. Emery Long Island Railroad Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Detailed pencil drawings of Long Island Railroad tracks, with explanatory notes by Emery; over 5,000 identified photographs and postcards of construction, wrecks, engines, trains, depots, conductors, and other railroad scenes; 262 timetables; and other material relating to the railroad.
		Pennsylvania Railroad engine no. 3805, a K4s type.
		Rules of the Long Island Railroad Company for the government of the Operating Department.
	www.sunysb.edu /libspecial/collections/manuscripts/emery.html (776 words)

	Illustrations of Incidents in Tunnel Construction - H.&M. R.R. CO.
		Illustrations of Incidents in Tunnel Construction - H.andM.
		TERMINAL STATION AND BUILDING AT CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK, SHOWING COMMENCEMENT OF STEEL ERECTION.
		WEST END OF PENNSYLVANIA STATION, JERSEY CITY, SHOWING THE JUNCTION OF THE LINES TO NEWARK AND HOBOKEN, AND THE PENNSYLVANIA TERMINAL STUB END TUNNEL.
	www.tmk.com /books/hmdinner (702 words)

	Time Management Training Kansas City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Built on the site of a former Shawnee reservation, the proximity of the railroad, local lumber sources, the smeltery, and in later years, steel manufacturing, meant that the city enjoyed a considerable amount of economic success for quite some time.
		Federal Express (passenger train) - The Federal Express was a passenger train run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Washington, DC's Union Station and Boston, Massachusetts's South Station.
		Take the A Train - Take the 'A' Train is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn, referring to the subway service that runs through New York City, going at that time from eastern Brooklyn up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the express tracks in Manhattan.
	www.gridsmi.com /timemanagementtrainingkansascity.html (1021 words)

	ArchiveGrid.org - historical sources from thousands of archives
		Here are some of the people, groups and places associated with the topic "Railroads - History" in ArchiveGrid.
		Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, - Strasburg, Pa Railway Express Agency
		Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis and Affiliated Companies
	archivegrid.org /web/jsp/lp.jsp?id=226 (509 words)

	S. Berliner, III's Pennsylvania Railroad Page
		My own LIRR pages may be of interest, as well (the Pennsy owned the LIRR from 1904 to 1966, having bought it out to gain access to Sunnyside Yard for Pennsylvania Station, and see also the Steinway System).
		I've finally added the Continuation Page 1, with Dimensions of the Horseshoe Curve, a mile-by-mile and even foot-by-foot guide to the Curve with actual (1:1) and HO scale (1:87.1) dimensions, and now Dimensions of the Horseshoe Curve in N (1:160) and Z (1:220) Scales to my Horseshoe Curve Continuation Page 3.
		I was at Steam Fair on Labor Day 2003 (01 Sep) and #643 is stripped down (photos are on PRR page 0); they are operating with a tiny Whitcomb diesel sporting #643's whistle (or one like it).
	home.att.net /~berliner-ultrasonics/prr.html (2247 words)

	Interstate Commerce Commission
		Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Co.
		Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway of Wisconsin
		Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Co.
	rlhs.org /naripab.htm (98 words)

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