Author: Pennsylvania Railroad Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781378058824 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 30
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Author: Pennsylvania Railroad Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781013305481 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330140611 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 28
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Excerpt from The New York Passenger Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad (Under Construction): Brief Description of the Main Features of the Engineering Work, Prepared for the Use of Members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on the Occasion of Their Visit to the Terminal Site at the Annual Meeting in New York, January, 1908 The project consists of the creation of a great passenger terminal, occupying the equivalent of about six city blocks, between Sixth and Tenth Avenues and Thirty-third and Thirty-third Streets, near the center of the shopping and theater district of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, with tracks at a level about forty-five feet below the streets, and the erection of an immense passenger station building between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, covering about eight acres and located over the track area. This terminal is to serve the Pennsylvania Railroad, which approaches from the west under the Hudson River, and the Long Island Railroad, which approaches from the east under the East River. The preparation of this site included the demolition of several hundred buildings. It practically meant the dispersion of a community whose population would be the equivalent of some of our smaller cities. The work of excavation called for the removal of nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards of material, mostly rock, and the construction of about one and one-half miles of heavy concrete retaining walls. The prosecution of the work necessitated the supporting of streets, including three main north and south avenues carrying the city's heaviest traffic; the closing up of Thirty-second Street between Seventh and Tenth Avenues; the removal, care and support of miles of water, gas and fire mains; telegraph, telephone, electric light, police and fire alarm wires. The grade of the tracks at the station site is from 7 to 10 feet below mean high water in the harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780260975713 Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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Excerpt from The New York Passenger Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad (Under Construction): Brief Description of the Main Features of the Engineering Work, Prepared for the Use of Members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on the Occasion of Their Visit to the Terminal Site at the Annual Meeting in New York, January, 1908 This terminal is to serve the Pennsylvania Rail road, which approaches from the west under the Hudson River, and the Long Island Railroad, which approaches from the east under the East River. The preparation of this site included the demoli tion of several hundred buildings. It practically meant the dispersion of a community whose population would be the equivalent of some of our smaller cities. The work of_ excavation called for the removal of nearly cubic yards of material, mostly rock, and the construction of about one and one-half miles of heavy concrete retaining walls. The prosecution of the work necessitated the supporting of streets, including three main north and south avenues carrying the City's heaviest traffic; the Closing up of Thirty-second Street between Seventh and Tenth Avenues; the removal, care and support of miles of water, gas and fire mains; telegraph, telephone, electric light, police and fire alarm wires. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Hilary Ballon Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393730784 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 232
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This book recounts the heroic story of a public landmark: the masterpiece by McKim, Mead & White that opened in 1910, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the dazzling new station by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, due to open in 2005.".
Author: Albert J. Churella Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253066360 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 911
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By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years. During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States. In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J. Churella continues his history of this giant of American transportation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the world's largest business corporation and the nation's most important railroad. By 1917, the Pennsylvania Railroad, like the nation itself, was confronting a very different world. The war that had consumed Europe since 1914 was about to engulf the United States. Amid unprecedented demand for transportation, the federal government undertook the management of the railroads, while new labor policies and new regulatory initiatives, coupled with a postwar recession, would challenge the company like never before. Only time would tell whether the years that followed would signal a new beginning for the Pennsylvania Railroad or the beginning of the end. The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Age of Limits, 1917-1933, represents an unparalleled look at the history, the personalities, and the technologies of this iconic American company in a period that marked the shift from building an empire to exploring the limits of their power.
Author: Pennsylvania Railroad
Author: Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company
Author: Pennsylvania Railroad
Author: Westinghouse Church Kerr & Company Engineers
Author: New York (N.Y.). Pennsylvania Station
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Author: John Albert Droege
Author: Hilary Ballon
Author: Albert J. Churella