Maps accompanying general orders, 1937-1942 and n.d.

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Maps accompanying general orders, 1937-1942 and n.d.

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Schematic diagrams tracks and signals placed in service or removed from service, mostly in connection with the step-by-step construction of the Philadelphia Improvements of 1927-52, which included the construction of 30th Street Station and the abandonment of Broad Street Station. Supplements the more extensive coverage of these projects in the official Pennsylvania Railroad Company archives.

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Broad Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Philadelphia Terminal Division.

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30th Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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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...