Harry F. Brown Papers. 1908-1933, 1959, 1964.

Westchester & Boston Railroad

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Brown, Harry F.

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Harry Farnsworth Brown was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on August 17, 1886, the son of Harry Bushnell Brown and Annie Josephine Burdick . He was educated in the New Haven public schools and attended Yale University from 1903-1907, where he graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School. Following graduation he was employed by General Electric Company. In 1910 he took a position in the Electrical Engineering Department of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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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. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

New York, Westchester & Boston Railway

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Boston and Maine Railroad

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New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York. Approximately one hundred small independent railroads were built in southern New England between 1826 and the 1880s. B...