ISBN: 0692956816 9780692956816

Category: History / United States / General

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This volume begins a new series on the history and infrastructure of the Pennsylvania Railroad, embodying the determination of its visionary President John Edgar Thomson to capture traffic to and from the West in its conquest of several rail lines extending west of Pittsburgh. It manifests that vision in the first section of the mainline westward toward Chicago, plus several major branches from the main northward to Erie, Ashtabula and Cleveland, connecting the main with Lake Erie.