Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Southboun...
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Pennsylvania Railroad, Jeffersonian, Sunnyside, Long Island City. Day ...
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Pennsylvania Railroad, Jeffersonian, Sunnyside, Long Island City. Obse...
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Pennsylvania Railroad, Jeffersonian, Sunnyside, Long Island City. Bar
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Pennsylvania Railroad, Jeffersonian, Sunnyside, Long Island City. Obse...
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West Penn Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, spanning Allegheny River, Pit...
Significance: Built to provide railroad access to Washington's Landing, the bridge has become a signature bridge in Pittsburgh. The elegant double intersection Pratt truss frames a dramatic view of Pittsburgh a... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River,...
Significance: The crossing is a critical link in the railroad route from Philadelphia to New York, and has hosted a series of bridges dating back to 1806. The current bridge is one of the Pennsylvania Railroad'... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River,...
Significance: The crossing is a critical link in the railroad route from Philadelphia to New York, and has hosted a series of bridges dating back to 1806. The current bridge is one of the Pennsylvania Railroad'... More
Thirtieth Street Station, Load Dispatch Center, Thirtieth & Market Str...
Significance: It was designed to visually and aurally indicate the operating status of the railroad's power system. This particular load dispatch center monitors and supervises electrical loads and power supply... More
Thirtieth Street Station, Load Dispatch Center, Thirtieth & Market Str...
Significance: It was designed to visually and aurally indicate the operating status of the railroad's power system. This particular load dispatch center monitors and supervises electrical loads and power supply... More
Juniata Shops, Turntable, South of Sixth Street at Third Avemue, Altoo...
Significance: A typical electrically powered turntable used in conjunction with the adjacent Erecting Shops and Machine Shops (HAER No. PA-232-D). Survey number: HAER PA-232-K
Pennsylvania Railroad, Mount Union Bridge, Spanning Juniata River, nor...
Significance: The bridge is significant as an example of the Pennsylvania Railroad's prolific stone arch bridge construction during the early 20th century. In addition, it elegantly breaks classical aesthetic r... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, 52nd Street Bridge, North Fifty-second Street a...
Significance: The bridge's main span, a pin-connected Parker through truss, is an exceptionally long example of its type. Its length surpasses the practical limit of 300', beyond which a subdivided Pennsylvania... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, 52nd Street Bridge, North Fifty-second Street a...
Significance: The bridge's main span, a pin-connected Parker through truss, is an exceptionally long example of its type. Its length surpasses the practical limit of 300', beyond which a subdivided Pennsylvania... More
Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, All...
Part of the Monongahela River Recording Project, which included HAER PA-385, Monongahela Navation Company Lock and Dam No. 7; HAER PA-299, Monongahela Lock and Dam No. 7; and HAER PA-304, Lower Monongahela Rive... More
Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, All...
Part of the Monongahela River Recording Project, which included HAER PA-385, Monongahela Navation Company Lock and Dam No. 7; HAER PA-299, Monongahela Lock and Dam No. 7; and HAER PA-304, Lower Monongahela Rive... More
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Brick Arch Viaduct, Liberty Street...
Survey number: HAER DE-12-C Building/structure dates: 1902-1908 Initial Construction
Pennsylvania Railroad, 25th Street Elevated, Above South Twenty-fifth ...
Significance: This elevated urban freight railroad is unusual for its great length and alignment directly over a city street. Survey number: HAER PA-549 Building/structure dates: 1926-1928 Initial Construction
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Tunnel Viaduct, Spanning Conemaugh River, ...
Significance: Part of the extensive Pennsylvania Railroad system, the West Tunnel Viaduct carried the main line of the PRR until tracks were relocated in the early 1950s as a result of the Conemaugh River Dam p... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, South Branch Chicago River Bridge, Spanning Sou...
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Pennsylvania Railroad, South Branch Chicago River Bridge, Spanning Sou...
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Connecting Railway, Schuylkill River Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River...
See also HABS PA-6213 for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-71 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: Completed in 1867, the Connecting Railway's Schuylkil... More
Greensburg Railroad Station, Harrison Avenue, Greensburg, Westmoreland...
Significance: A principal stop on the mainline of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Greensburg Station is now listed on the National Register. Survey number: HAER PA-249 Building/structure dates: 1910- 1911 I... More
Christiana Borough Bridge, Bridge Street over Pennsylvania Railroad, C...
Significance: The Christiana Borough Bridge is a rare survivor of the Whipple truss bridge structure with wrought iron Phoenix columns. Built in 1893-95 by the Pennsylvania Railroad during a period of railroad... More
Christiana Borough Bridge, Bridge Street over Pennsylvania Railroad, C...
Significance: The Christiana Borough Bridge is a rare survivor of the Whipple truss bridge structure with wrought iron Phoenix columns. Built in 1893-95 by the Pennsylvania Railroad during a period of railroad... More
Christiana Borough Bridge, Bridge Street over Pennsylvania Railroad, C...
Significance: The Christiana Borough Bridge is a rare survivor of the Whipple truss bridge structure with wrought iron Phoenix columns. Built in 1893-95 by the Pennsylvania Railroad during a period of railroad... More
Christiana Borough Bridge, Bridge Street over Pennsylvania Railroad, C...
Significance: The Christiana Borough Bridge is a rare survivor of the Whipple truss bridge structure with wrought iron Phoenix columns. Built in 1893-95 by the Pennsylvania Railroad during a period of railroad... More
Christiana Borough Bridge, Bridge Street over Pennsylvania Railroad, C...
Significance: The Christiana Borough Bridge is a rare survivor of the Whipple truss bridge structure with wrought iron Phoenix columns. Built in 1893-95 by the Pennsylvania Railroad during a period of railroad... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Brandywine Valley Viaduct, Spanning Brandywine ...
Significance: It is notable for its height, length, and complex geometry, which includes both horizontal and vertical curvature. It is also significant in association with the Pennsylvania Railroad's Philadelph... More
Stone Creek Bridge II, South of Penn Street between First & Second Str...
Significance: This bridge was constructed when the tracks through Huntingdon were moved from Allegheny Street to the bed of the defunct Pennsylvania Canal, replacing an older stone bridge upstream (Stone Creek ... More
Stone Creek Bridge II, South of Penn Street between First & Second Str...
Significance: This bridge was constructed when the tracks through Huntingdon were moved from Allegheny Street to the bed of the defunct Pennsylvania Canal, replacing an older stone bridge upstream (Stone Creek ... More
North Pennsylvania Railroad, Landis Ridge Tunnel, Beneath Landis Ridge...
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Pennsylvania Railroad, East Tunnel Viaduct, Spanning Conemaugh River, ...
Significance: The East Tunnel Viaduct was constructed as part of a major rebuilding project undertaken in the 1880s by the Pennsylvania Railroad, in which many of the former iron or wooden bridges on the line w... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, no...
Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings. Unprocessed Field note ma... More
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, Beaver River Bridge, Spannin...
Significance: The bridge includes several unusually shallow and heavy skewed Warren deck trusses. The interesting and well-documented history of this crossing includes a rare instance of highway and railroad br... More
Juniata Shops, Erecting Shop & Machine Shop, East of Fourth Avenue, be...
Significance: The Erecting Shop and Machine Shop was the largest part of the last major expansion of the Altoona Works. Survey number: HAER PA-232-D Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction Buildi... More
Juniata Shops, Erecting Shop & Machine Shop, East of Fourth Avenue, be...
Significance: The Erecting Shop and Machine Shop was the largest part of the last major expansion of the Altoona Works. Survey number: HAER PA-232-D Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction Buildi... More
Juniata Shops, Erecting Shop & Machine Shop, East of Fourth Avenue, be...
Significance: The Erecting Shop and Machine Shop was the largest part of the last major expansion of the Altoona Works. Survey number: HAER PA-232-D Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction Buildi... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Selinsgrove Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River,...
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Glen Gardner Bridge, Spanning Spruce Run, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon Coun...
Significance: The Old Mill Bridge is one of three composite cast- and wrought-iron Pratt truss bridges in New Jersey, and one of the few still existing in the United States. First used in the mid-nineteenth ce... More
Glen Gardner Bridge, Spanning Spruce Run, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon Coun...
Significance: The Old Mill Bridge is one of three composite cast- and wrought-iron Pratt truss bridges in New Jersey, and one of the few still existing in the United States. First used in the mid-nineteenth ce... More
Pittsburgh & Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel, Between Fifth & S...
Significance: The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel was a section of the Pittsburgh rail link between the Pennsylvania Railroad's western terminus and the eastern terminus of the Steubenvill... More
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Repair Shop, Vandever & Bowers Str...
Survey number: HAER DE-12-A Building/structure dates: 1902-1906 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1931 Subsequent Work
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Repair Shop, Vandever & Bowers Str...
Survey number: HAER DE-12-A Building/structure dates: 1902-1906 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1931 Subsequent Work
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Repair Shop, Vandever & Bowers Str...
Survey number: HAER DE-12-A Building/structure dates: 1902-1906 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1931 Subsequent Work
Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Repair Shop, Vandever & Bowers Str...
Survey number: HAER DE-12-A Building/structure dates: 1902-1906 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1931 Subsequent Work
Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad, Wills Creek Bridge, Spanning Wills...
Significance: The Wills Creek Bridge is located in the Cumberland and Pennsylvania subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway Company. It is a brick arch viaduct of four spans, each 45 feet in length. The ab... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 35, South of Tacony Street between Bri...
Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Harrisburg Station & Trainshed, Market & South ...
Significance: When this train station was constructed, Harrisburg was a major railroad center, located at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The train sheds are particularly significant. When constructed, t... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...
Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More
Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Stree...
Significance: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was commissioned from the office of D.H. Brunham in Chicago, one of the chief purveyors of the new monumental Classicism. Survey number: HABS PA-1175 Building/... More
Pennsylvania Railroad Station Rotunda, Liberty, Grant & Eleventh Stree...
Significance: The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was commissioned from the office of D.H. Brunham in Chicago, one of the chief purveyors of the new monumental Classicism. Survey number: HABS PA-1175 Building/... More
Ohio Connecting Railway, Brunot's Island Bridge, Spanning Ohio River a...
Significance: The bridge is significant for its complexity, carrying rail traffic in four directions across the Ohio River on a system of high viaduct spans and through trusses. Innovative methods were used to ... More
Monastery Road Bridge, Spanning Pennsylvania Railroad at Monastery Roa...
Significance: Monastery Road Bridge is a rare example of a pin-connected deck truss railroad bridge adapted for re-use as a roadway bridge. This site is of historical interest for its association with the Penn... More
Monastery Road Bridge, Spanning Pennsylvania Railroad at Monastery Roa...
Significance: Monastery Road Bridge is a rare example of a pin-connected deck truss railroad bridge adapted for re-use as a roadway bridge. This site is of historical interest for its association with the Penn... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Safe Harbor Bridge, Spanning mouth of Conestoga...
Significance: The bridge is unusual two-level structure built to carry two different Pennsylvania Railroad branches. The low-grade freight line on the upper level was chief engineer William H. Brown's last majo... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Brownsville Junction Bridge, Spanning Mono...
Significance: This bridge's 401'-long Petit through truss is typical of long spans required on Monongahela River navigation. Its approaches feature an early installation of a reinforced concrete slab floor. Un... More
Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal Lock, North of Water Street along West Bran...
Significance: Lock No. 35 is a historically significant remnant of the Pennsylvania state-built canal system. The lock is the sole surviving structure of the Bald Eagle Cross-Cut Canal, a lateral line construc... More
Juniata Shops, Erecting Shop, East of Fourth Avenue at Third Street, A...
Significance: The Erecting Shop was one of the four original shop buildings constructed at Juniata. Survey number: HAER PA-232-C Building/structure dates: 1889 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More
Connecting Railway, Reading Railroad Overpass, Amtrak Northeast Corrid...
Significance: This overpass, one of the early grad-separation structures on Philadelphia's Connecting Railway retains its original brick arches, which are rarely found on U.S. railroads. The bridge is located i... More
Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, ...
Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly i... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Philadelphia Elevated, Parallel to Schuylk...
See also HAER PA-71 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: The West Philadelphia Elevated, part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's program to separate passenger and freight traffic, includes... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, West Philadelphia Elevated, Parallel to Schuylk...
See also HAER PA-71 for related documentation. Includes photographs. Significance: The West Philadelphia Elevated, part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's program to separate passenger and freight traffic, includes... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
Pennsylvania Railroad, Canton Coal Pier, Clinton Street at Keith Avenu...
Significance: The P.R.R. Canton Coal Pier is significant, uniquely designed, and highly successful means of transporting coal from rail to barge. It is virtually unchanged and still in operation. Survey numbe... More
[Pennsylvania Railroad advertising material: "Pennsylvania Air Line, b...
View down track toward tunnel under street. Sepia photo copyrighted by W.P. Mange & Co., Phila. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads Stations Pa.; Railro... More
Philadelphia Express, Jersey Central Railway /
"The scene of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, N.J. While a Pennsylvania train is passing over the arch, the Philadelphia Express on the Central Railroad come... More
P.R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] terminal, Oct. '08 [New York]
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Perfect Harmony Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. Perfect harmony prevailed to...
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New York, New York. Draftees on their way to the induction center at t...
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Cleveland, Ohio. Unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of ...
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Chicago, Illinois. One of the Pennsylvania Railroad's giant 6100 class...
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Cleveland, Ohio. Unloading a lake freighter by means of Hewlett [i.e.,...
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Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Northboun...
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Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Southboun...
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Aberdeen Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Aberdeen, Maryland. Northboun...
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