Diary, 1859-1914.

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Diary, 1859-1914.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164036280

The diary is a handwritten copy made by Snyder from a larger original diary for his friend and co-worker W.C. Copley. It was apparently donated to the PRR's General Office Library and was sold with the contents of that library at auction in 1972.

105 leaves ; 25 cm.

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Snyder, W. C., b. 1844.

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W.C. Snyder was a career employee in the Transportation Dept. of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. On April 1, 1890, he was promoted from Assistant Trainmaster of the Pittsburgh Division to Trainmaster of the Altoona Division, which consisted of the important Altoona Yards and the local branches lying south and east of this major railroad center. On June 1, 1903, the Altoona Division was merged into the Middle Division, and Snyder became Assistant Trainmaster in charge of branches with an offic...

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...