History and construction of the electrical substation of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Landover, Maryland [electronic resource] / by Louis Francis Flagg. 1935 May 3

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History and construction of the electrical substation of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Landover, Maryland [electronic resource] / by Louis Francis Flagg. 1935 May 3

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Paper documenting the role of the Landover substation in the electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad as well as the history of the establishment of the substation and its construction.

1 online resource (51 leaves) : ill.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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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...