Trains Album of Photographs #8 Pennsylvania Railroad Spiral Bound 1944 PRR
Trains Album of Photographs #8 Pennsylvania Railroad Spiral Bound 1944
20 single side pages of photos. Measures approx. 10 X 14 inches.
The picture story of the wrold's greatest railroad in action moving world's heaviest traffic.
The Pennsylvania Railroad hauls more freight and carries more passengers than any other American railroad. While it has neither the largest mileage nor the greatest geographic spread of American railroads, its routes are strategically spun through the heart of the richest traffic-producing area. The steel mills of Pittsburgh, the warehouses of Chicago, the coal mines and industries of Pennsylvania, and the trade of New York and the north Atlantic seaboard all contribute to the endless flow of freight.
East of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania's main line, four tracks wide, passes in tunnels beneath the summit of the Alleghenies, follows the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers to Harrisburg, Pa., and thence, through rich farming and industrial areas, stretches to Philadelphia and New York. Between these cities, much of the way six tracks wide, it becomes the world's busiest piece of railroad. Southward from Philadelphia, an extension of the main line reaches Baltimore and Washington, with a lateral to Norfolk, Va., via a ferry across the Chesapeake Capes. From Harrisburg an extension southward gives Washington and Baltimore a shortened line to the West. Laterals northward bring Rochester, Buffalo, Wilkes-Barre and Erie into the system. Between New York and Philadelphia trains run every hour, on the hour, and in between them are operated hourly trains between New York and Washington. Including long-distance trains to and from the South, New England and Canada, and locals and suburbans, a total of 300 trains a day operate on the trackage linking New York and Washington.
The Pennsylvania's eastern seaboard lines, embracing the trackage between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Harrisburg, are electrified for both passengers and freight. The freight line down the Susquehanna from Harrisburg to a connection with the Baltimore-Washington line, and the freight cut-off north of Philadelphia, are also electrified. Taken together, these lines constitute the world's greatest railroad electrification. The work of electrifying cost $150,000,000 and this large sum was expended in the acute depression of the '30's, but it was a carefully computed investment which was paid off many times in operating efficiency, and is of paramount importance now in handling an enormous volume of essential wartime traffic, both passenger and freight.
West of Pittsburgh are two principal main lines. Through trains to and from Chicago run northeasterly via Fort Wayne, with laterals to Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit. The "Panhandle," running southwesterly, reaches St. Louis through Columbus and Indianapolis, with laterals providing service to Cincinnati and Louisville.
On such a huge railroad things are done on a grand scale. Pennsylvania Station on Manhattan Island was, at the time it was built, a most audacious project, involving tunnels under both the Hudson and East rivers. And yet it moved the terminals of the road from the Jersey shore into a secure position with respect to New York traffic, and with the completion of the Hell Gate Bridge route connected it directly with the New Haven Railroad, New England and Canada. A total of three billions is invested in the physical property of the Pennsylvania, but so carefully invested and managed that the road has a record, unequaled in American railroading, of continuous dividend payments since 1856.
In this album we give a photographic panorama of the Pennsylvania Railroad which cannot be complete, but which is representative. As in the other albums of this series, produced by the editors of TRAINS magazine, the photos are printed on one side of the paper so they can be easily removed for scrap-book use or for framing. The paper and printing process are specially developed to give the clearest and most realistic photographic reproduction short of actual individual glossy prints. We hope you like it.
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