The Capitol sub-station at South Capitol and G Streets, Washington, D.C. [electronic resource] / [Paul L. King]. 1935 May 3.

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The Capitol sub-station at South Capitol and G Streets, Washington, D.C. [electronic resource] / [Paul L. King]. 1935 May 3.

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Paper documenting the history and operation of and the preliminary testing conducted at the Capitol electric sub-station which supplied power to the trolleys of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1 online resource (14, [2] leaves) : ill.

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...