A short history of the Princeton branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1939.

Historical Society of Princeton

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The Historical Society of Princeton is a private, non-profit organization that was founded in 1938 in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1967, the Historical Society established its headquarters across from Princeton University, on Nassau Street, in Bainbridge House, which is one of the finest surviving examples of Georgian architecture in the area, and since that time the building has served the public as both a museum and library. Rudolph A. Clemen was president of the Society. From the des...

Lipp, Delmar

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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...