The history and construction of the old Calvert Street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Baltimore, Maryland [electronic resource] / [Jacob Friedman]. 1933

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The history and construction of the old Calvert Street station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Baltimore, Maryland [electronic resource] / [Jacob Friedman]. 1933

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Paper documenting the planning for and physical construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Calvert Street station in Baltimore, Maryland.

1 online resource (16 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...