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We were at the downtown post office this afternoon and reminded of this blog post by Tom Castaldi: http://historycenterfw.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-pennsy-shops.html
Posted by The History Center on Tuesday, June 17, 2014Tuesday, June 17, 2014 post by The History Center on Facebook:
We were at the downtown post office this afternoon and reminded of this blog post by Tom Castaldi: The Pennsy Shops
We have a new blog post today from Tom Castaldi:
Posted by The History Center on Wednesday, December 18, 2013Wednesday, December 18, 2013 post by The History Center on Facebook:
We have a new blog post today from Tom Castaldi: The Pennsy Shops
The Baker Street Station was on the Pennsylvania Railroad. See the United States Post Office.
The railroad line that would become the PFtW&C was built in three sections from Pittsburgh west. The main part in Indiana started life as the Fort Wayne & Chicago, incorporated in 1852. The Fort Wayne and Chicago (FtW&C) was to connect the Ohio & Indiana (O&I) Railroad, connecting Fort Wayne to Crestline, Ohio, to Chicago. The Ohio & Indiana, in turn, connected to the Ohio & Pennsylvania (O&P), which connected Crestline to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. (Allegheny City is now known as the north side of Pittsburgh.) By 1856, the FtW&C had managed to build to Columbia City, 19 miles west of Fort Wayne. ... The PFtW&C would also make Fort Wayne a major rail hub city. Major yards and shops were built there, earning the city the nickname of “Altoona of the West,” after the largest railroad facility in Pennsylvania of the PRR.
Copied from the longer article Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Richard M. Simpson, III Uncategorized 19 June 2019 at Indiana Transportation History
December 27, 2023 post by the Indiana University Press on Facebook:
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.
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