Download or read book The Late Great Pennsylvania Station written by Lorraine B. Diehl and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1996-11-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the history of the creation, operation, and demolition of New York's Pennsylvania Station.

Download or read book Old Penn Station written by William Low and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the construction, history, and demolition of one of the most famous railroad stations in America-- New York City's Penn Station.

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Main Line Railroad Stations written by Jim Sundman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1857, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) took over Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works, a state-owned railroad and canal system built in the 1830s. Most are gone, but fortunately some still stand and are in use today. Costly to build and maintain, and never attracting the traffic needed to sustain it, the state was eager to let it go. Keeping the rail portion and combining it with its own lines, the PRR ultimately developed a well-built and well-run rail line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh all while keeping the "main line" moniker. The eastern section between Philadelphia and Harrisburg was especially successful, particularly after the railroad built new communities along the line that were at first summer destinations and later year-round homes for daily commuters. Other towns and cities along the main line had a strong industrial or agricultural base needing rail access, and many of these communities had attractive train stations. Images of America: Pennsylvania Main Line Railroad Stations: Philadelphia to Harrisburg documents many of these passenger stations through vintage photographs and other images.

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Download or read book The Ma Pa written by George W. Hilton and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The friend of my bosom": a Philadelphian love story -- "A settled portion of my happiness": friendship, sentiment, and eighteenth-century manhood -- "The best blessing we know": male love and spiritual communion in early America -- "A band of brothers": fraternal love in the Continental Army -- "The overflowing of friendship": friends, brothers, and citizens in a republic of sympathy.

Download or read book New York s Original Penn Station written by Paul M Kaplan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the spectacular and much-lamented train terminal whose destruction inspired a new passion for historic preservation. Includes photos. In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grand as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan's infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world's most spectacular monuments. Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and pride. But the ensuing rise of the airplane and automobile began to diminish train travel. Consequently, in the mid-1960s, the station was tragically destroyed. The loss inspired the birth of preservation laws in the city and the nation that would save other landmarks—such as New York’s Grand Central, just blocks away. Here, Paul Kaplan recounts the trials and triumphs of New York's Penn Station, with extensive photos and illustrations.

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad 1940s 1950s written by Don Ball and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Penn Central written by Joseph R. Daughen and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.

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Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Under Wire written by William D. Middleton and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the PRR's remarkable effort to engineer a powerful, efficient, and clean means of moving people and products -- at a time when steam and diesel were the norm. Features vintage photographs of electrified equipment in action. Includes route maps and depictions of operations.

Download or read book Rail Trails Florida written by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida visitors are often surprised by both the beauty of its trails and by the great variety of its landscapes. Although Florida doesn't have any mountains, it does offer trails with views of everything from beaches and bluffs to prairies and wetlands. In this comprehensive trail guide, you'll find some of the best, most beautiful trails in Florida. Many of the trails were converted from unused railroad corridors to become some of the best multiuse rail-trails in the state. In this guidebook, experts from Rail-to-Trails Conservancy present their final list of the top trails and rail-trails in Florida, selected from more than 100 in the state. In addition to details about each trail, Rail-Trails Florida also provides information about trail amenities, including restrooms, parking facilities, and water fountains.