Penn Central Transportation Company Passenger Operations Dept. Records, 1968-1977

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

United States. Federal Railroad Administration

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Union Station (St. Louis, Mo.).

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ConRail

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The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

30th Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pennsylvania Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.).

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Cleveland Union Terminal (Cleveland, Ohio).

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Timpany, R. D. 1919-1998.

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South Station (Boston, Mass.).

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Port Authority Transit Corporation

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Pennsylvania Station (Newark, N.J.).

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Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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The MBTA is the state agency responsible for the public transportation system in the Boston metropolitan area. From the description of Glass plate collection on the MBTA, 1896-1940 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360181 The Boston Elevated Railway Company was established in 1894 and replaced successively by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 1947 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in 1964. From the description of Boa...

Penn Central Transportation Company. Passenger Operations Dept.

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At the time of the Penn Central merger, total responsibility for passenger service was lodged in the Operating Department, instead of being divided between the Operating Department and the Passenger Sales Department. James M. Leconto became Assistant Vice President - Passenger Service, reporting the the Vice President - Transportation. On May 1, 1969, Howard C. Kohout was appointed over Leconto as Vice President - Passenger Operations, and the Transportation Department became freigh...

Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority

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Union Station (Washington, D.C.).

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Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) was created on February 17, 1964, by Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties under a 1963 act that permitted counties to organize such authorities and acquire the assets of private transportation companies. SEPTA was created in response to a growing crisis in urban mass transit. Commuter rail lines were suffering from operating losses that freight income could no longer offset, combined...

Alban, C. B. 1917- .

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Washington Terminal Company

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New York and Long Branch Railroad Company.

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Tucker, W. H. 1923- .

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Gilmore, J. M.

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Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

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The Atlantic City Railroad Company was incorporated in March 1899 and was renamed Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines on July 15, 1933. Prior to 1933, both the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad maintained parallel and competing lines between Philadelphia/Camden and the New Jersey shore resorts between Atlantic City and Cape May. This had originally been a large and lucrative business, but with the coming of auto and bus competition and the opening of the Dela...

Canadian Transport Commission

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Chicago Union Station Company

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The new building known as Union Station (Chicago, Ill.) opened in 1925 at 210 South Canal Street. Its predecessor building, known as the Union Passenger Station (Chicago, Ill.), was at the northeast corner of S. Canal and W. Adams Streets (1881-1923), a site later occupied by the 120 Riverside Plaza building. From the description of Chicago Union Station Company records, 1915-1945. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 709914849 ...

Indianapolis Union Railway Company

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The Indianapolis Union Railway Company was founded in the 1850s. The company owned and maintained the Indianapolis Union Station and in 1882 leased the railway equipment, track, and facilities of the Indianapolis Belt Railroad and Stock Yards Company. Since its creation this railroad entity was for the purpose of easing and streamlining the exchange of freight and passengers between the different railroad companies that ran through Indianapolis. In April of 1976 the ownership of IURC was transfe...

Frasher, E. P.

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United States Railway Association

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In 1973, the United States Congress passed the Rail Reorganization Act, establishing the United States Railway Association (USRA) to develop a plan for a Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail), charged with planning and financing the reorganization of bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. In July of 1974, USRA submitted a Final System Plan to Congress. ConRail was established in 1976, revitalizing the railroads in spite of the deep economic regulation that remained. The Staggers Act ...

King, F. S.

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Connecticut. Dept. of Transportation.

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New Jersey. Dept. of Transportation.

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Union Station (Indianapolis, Ind.)

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Originally built in 1853, Union Station had a dramatic effect on the growth and development of Indianapolis. It was one of the earliest attempts by a major American city to unite the passenger and express freight services of several competing railroad companies in a single terminal. The original depot was replaced in 1888 by the Romanesque-Revival structure know today as the Grand Hall. After World War II, rail travel began to decline and by 1979 the terminal was served by few trains. In the 198...

Kohout, H. C. 1914-2002.

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Back Bay Station (Boston, Mass.).

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Amtrak

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National Visitor Center

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Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)

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Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)

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Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation

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Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission

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