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	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
		The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located in eastern Pennsylvania in the town of Strasburg.
		Pennsylvania Railroad class E6s Atlantic (4-4-2) #460 and class D16sb American (4-4-0) #1223.
		1223 was restored to operating condition in 1965 and operated on the Strasburg Railroad with 7002 as late as 1989.
	www.steamlocomotive.com /pennsy/rmop (938 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The system opened in 1834, consisting of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad from Philadelphia west to Columbia on the Susquehanna River, a canal from Columbia to Hollidaysburg, the Allegheny Portage Railroad from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown, and another canal from Johnstown to the terminus in Pittsburgh.
		The Union Railroad opened on July 24, 1873, eliminating the transfer, and the PRR contracted with the Union Railroad and the PWandB.
		The original Pennsylvania Station was designed to be a replica of the Baths of Caracalla; it was notable for its enormous railshed and infamous demolition in the railroad's waning years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad (3023 words)

	The Pennsylvania Railroad
		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 History : Pennsylvania's Railways
		While the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 is perhaps the best-known event in American railroad history, the completion of the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona is certainly as significant.
		The mighty Pennsylvania Railroad rose to become one of America's largest companies, and dozens of railroads, both small and large, sprouted in cities and towns across the state.
		At its height, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest in the world, operating 7,000 locomotives and 250,000 cars.
	www.parailways.com /history (318 words)

	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In time, Pennsylvania was to be crossed by dozens of railroads, reflecting its keystone location and providing the arteries of its industry and commerce.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was joined by—and often competed with—the Baltimore and Ohio, the Reading Company (a major hauler of anthracite), the Bessemer and Lake Erie (serving the steel industry), the Lehigh Valley, the Norfolk and Western, and even parts of the Pennsylvania Railroad's arch rival, the New York Central.
		As the participating railroads assembled equipment to display at the New York World's Fair, officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which lacked any formal program for preserving "relics," searched for visually impressive and historically important locomotives—in some cases the last of their kind.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/rrmuseum/page3.asp?secid=31 (663 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 Company Manuscript Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation.
		The records of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company housed at the Urban Archives Center consist of twelve major departments, predominately consisting of office files relating to its operations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the first railroad to implement a formal penison program with wide scale acceptance, hence the records provide insight to the detailed workings of the board for all cases brought before it.
	www.library.temple.edu /urbana/prr-01.htm (1334 words)

	Pennsylvania Highways: Pennsylvania Turnpike
		Pennsylvania was one of the first states to establish a highway department.
		Six where former South Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels; however, Allegheny Mountain was built 85 feet south of the old railroad tunnel because its interior was considered to be unstable and dangerous.
		The Governor flew to Chicago where he took a Pennsylvania Railroad train to Pittsburgh, then he drove to the capital at 50 MPH which he himself decreed the maximum to be on the highway just weeks earlier.
	www.pahighways.com /toll/PATurnpike.html (15068 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Shops and Works: Special History Study (Chapter 1)
		The Pennsylvania Railroad charter provided that the railroad be governed by a board of thirteen directors each owning at least twenty shares of the company's capital stock.
		Railroad stockholders elected the first Board of Directors on March 30, 1847, with Samuel Vaughan Merrick becoming the first President of the Pennsylvania Railroad and John Edgar Thomson selected as the chief engineer.
		During 1851, the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks extended from Harrisburg to Altoona which was a distance of one hundred and thirty-two miles.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/railroad/shs1.htm (1353 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Shops and Works: Special History Study (Chapter 1)
		Pennsylvania Railroad officials planned to use iron bridges made in Altoona to provide passage for trains between the Portage Viaduct and the Summit Tunnel and over the Little Conemaugh.
		The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad originally intended to construct a single-track road to Pittsburgh, but, during construction it became evident that a second track would be of value and so they ordered construction of a second track in certain sections.
		The railroad community's population rose from a few settlers in 1850 to a population of 2,000 in 1854 and 3,591 in 1860.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/railroad/shs1a.htm (1937 words)

	1948 PRR BOD Inspection
		The Pennsylvania Railroad System is made up of the lines of over 800 separate original corporations, all now either owned outright, controlled through stock ownership, or operated under long term lease; many of them had been merged to form the companies that were subsequently acquired or controlled.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad's original entry into Pittsburgh was on the center of Ferguson Street, then located between Liberty Avenue and the hillside, thence diagonally to the center of Liberty Avenue at 17th Street.
		The first Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station in Chicago was built for the P.F.W.and C. It was a low, rakish, part brick and frame building which stood on the station property between Madison and Van Buren streets, east of Canal street.
	www.railsandtrails.com /PRR/BOD1948/history.html (3006 words)

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		Railroads and steam propulsion developed separately, and it was not until the one system adopted the technology of the other that railroads began to flourish.
		The possibility of railroads connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts was discussed in the Congress even before the treaty with England which settled the question of the Oregon boundary in 1846.
		Railroads were also needed in the West to provide better postal service, as had been developed in the East, by designating railroad lines "post roads" in 1838.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html (4835 words)

	Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad \| Van Horne, John C., Editor. With Eileen E. Drelick
		His grandest effects are achieved in meticulously composed studies of the landscape traversed by the railroad.
		In the 1890s Philadelphia's preeminent photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to promote travel on the railway to the general public.
		Known as "the standard railroad of the world," the PRR was the largest rail system in the East and linked metropolitan New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and such industrial cities of the Midwest as Chicago and St. Louis.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/13554.html (537 words)

	Clara's Railroad Crossing - Pennsylvania
		A brief overlook at the current and historical railroads in the Pennsylvania area.
		The Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad was a charming backwoods railroad that ran in the heart of Pennsylvania.
		The KV was known as "the short line with a long name," and it's no wonder that local residents cooked up their own nicknames - the "Lofty Vanderbilt," the "Hair Line" or the "Ol' Hook and Eye" - reflecting its character and country mystique.
	www.claras.com /railroad/pa/home.html (448 words)

	Pennsylvania Railroad Page (PRR)
		Pennsylvania Railroad's I1 class 2-10-0 #4245 at Columbus, Ohio in 1937.
		GG1, #4935 "Blackjack" This photo is of the Amtrak era repaint of 4935 prior to donation to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg.
		Members recieve "The Keystone", a quarterly publication which "chronicles the legacy of the Pennsylvania Railroad, its predecessor and susidiary companies".
	www.vetmed.auburn.edu /~smithbf/BFSpages/PRR.html (479 words)

	Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana - 10 Most: Pennsylvania Railroad Station
		Designed by famed architect Daniel Burnham, Richmond’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station was completed in 1902, a combined passenger station and freight depot that boasts a massive entrance portico with unique brick columns and terra cotta ornamentation.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was clearly pursuing excellence in 1899 when it chose Burnham’s office to design its station on North E Street in Richmond.
		The threat: Richmond’s vacant Pennsylvania Railroad Station appeared on the 10 Most Endangered list in 1996 and was considered safe when a redevelopment deal seemed poised for success.
	www.historiclandmarks.org /news/2005_10Most/10most05-8.html (329 words)

	Transportation, History -- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
		One of the great railroad museums of the world, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has assembled a spectacular collection of motive power and rolling stock dating from 1825 to the present.
		For more than a century the railroad was the primary means of transportation of people and cargo.
		Some old handcars can also be seen., as well as a number of other exhibits that illustrate the history of the railroad in Pennsylvania.
	www.fieldtrip.com /pa/76878628.htm (784 words)

	Railroad, Pennsylvania (PA) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
		Railroad, Pennsylvania (PA) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
		Compared to the rest of the country, Railroad (17355)'s cost of living is 6.35% Higher than the U.S. average.
		Railroad (17355) public schools spend $5,660 per student.
	www.bestplaces.net /city/Profile.aspx?city=Railroad_PA&cat=CRIME&subcat=DATA (161 words)

	Amazon.com: Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania: Books: William J. Switala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		History Of The Underground Railroad in Chester and The Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania by R.
		Organized in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved.
		The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811716295?v=glance (761 words)

	Ma and Pa Railroad Home Page
		Preservers of the Historic Ma and Pa Railroad
		Come and join the Maryland and Pennsylvania Preservation Society.
		We are available for group tours and school groups throughout the year.
	www.maandparailroad.com (104 words)

	Existing Pennsylvania Railroad Stations
		Sign up for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Stations List which will carry updates of information (usually newly "discovered" stations) and photographs added to the Existing Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Stations Database Web Sites.
		Your help as a railroad historian has been and will continue to be essential to the life of this page.
		The stations listed in the database are organized by county (there are 67 in Pennsylvania).
	www.west2k.com /pa.htm (215 words)

	Trains, Railroads, Train Depots, Catawissa, Whistle Stop, Bloomsburg, Danville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Catawissa railroad was only 63 miles in length, for a distance of 30 miles it traveled one of the wildest mountain wildernesses in the country.
		This Pennsylvania Railroad N-8 Caboose was built in 1951 the year that I was born.
		Anything pertaining to THE CATAWISSA RAILROAD If you have any items you wish to sell, please send me a description and price by e-mail and I will be glad to respond to you as soon as possible.
	home.ptd.net /~waltgosh (884 words)

	Amazon.com: Pennsylvania Railroad (Railroad Color History): Books: Mike Schafer,Brian Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Railroads of Pennsylvania: Fragments of the Past in the Keystone Landscape by Lorett Treese
		Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide (Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide) by Dan Cupper in Front Matter
		This is a very fine, concise introduction to the "standard railroad of the world." For a readable, yet remarkably thorough introduction to the Pennsy, this is the book to read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0760303797?v=glance (828 words)

	Chris Brandt's Pennsylvania Railroad Homepage -- Station Stops
		The Pennsylvania Pages a rambling of thoughts and memorabilia about the PRR, by Allen Underkofler.
		Electric Locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad By Richard Duley
		Pennsylvania Railroad Stations, Past and Present By Dan West.
	www.eclipse.net /~cobrandt/stationstops.html (225 words)

	CoolTrains.com - Your Home for Cool Trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Pennsylvania Railroad WebRing is designed to bring together sites that contain information about Pennsy prototype railroading, model railroading, railfanning, railroad museums, and railroad historical societies.
		Commercial railroad sites or railroad dealer sites are allowed in the ring with no special requirements other then those listed in these guidelines.
		After joining the Pennsylvania Railroad Webring, you will be provided with one line of HTML code.
	www.cooltrains.com /webring (857 words)

	"The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks" (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The part of that story told herein relates to two important anniversaries being observed this year, the Centennial of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Sesqui-centennial of the City of Cleveland."
		We are pleased to offer this Web edition of the 1946 work, The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks.
		This is the first feature of a wider site devoted to the railroads serving northeastern Ohio.
	web.ulib.csuohio.edu /SpecColl/prrcd (133 words)

	Catawissa,Reading Railroad, Trains, Station, Whistle Stop, Railroads
		Once assured of the advantage of a railroad, he proceeded to demonstrate its practicability.
		The party was favorably impressed with the proposed enterprise, and finally, on March 21, 1831, a company for the construction of the road was chartered.
		Christian Brobst, Joseph Paxton, William McKelvey, Ebenezer Daniel and others were authorized by act of the Legislature to solicit subscriptions to the capital stock of the Little Schuykill and Susquehanna Railroad, which was finally built, later became the CATAWISSA RAILROAD COMPANY and is now an important part of the Reading System.
	trackman.caboosenut.com /railroad (441 words)

	Railroaders Memorial Museum Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark Altoona Pennsylvania
		Railroaders Memorial Museum Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark Altoona Pennsylvania
		In 1882, the PRR built the Master Mechanics Building to provide office space for the Master Mechanic and his assistants as a center for testing operations.
		Learn how you can memoralize your railroader from past or present with the Museum's memorial programs that can provide permanent recognition in the Museum's Memorial Hall Read More...
	www.railroadcity.com (161 words)

	The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society
		The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, whose mission is to collect and preserve the history of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad in personal recollections, photographs, documents, memorabilia, and models.
		The NMRA is not responsible for the actions or publications of The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society.
		Click on the buttons to your left and discover more about the Railroad, our Society, the merchandise that we have for sale, news about the Railroad and Society events, and links to other sites that relate to the Ma and Pa, our members, and railroading.
	www.maparailroadhist.org (155 words)

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