Dates for NH Penn Station

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Hi Friends, 

     Since we're on the Penn Station topic, I wanted to add a little known fact fo local interest. One of the 16 eagles from the main Penn Station entrance pediments is located near the end zone at the football field of Hampden-Sydney College near Farmville, Va. Log on to www.shorpy.com/node/299 for more info.  

Take care, 

Norris Deyerle 

Lynchburg, Va. 


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Subject: Dates for NH Penn Station
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:09:53 -0400
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>From Triumph V – Philadelphia to New York 1830 – 2002

Authors David W. Messer and Charles S. Roberts.
26 Dec 1901 PRR President Cassatt presented a plan for electrifying the railroad from Harrison NJ thru the NJ Meadow Lands and then via a tunnel under Bergin Hill and the Hudson River to a grand Terminal in midtown Manhattan.
 
In April 1902 Charles Follen McKim was contracted as Architect. 
Ground breaking for the station was held at 31st Street and Ninth Avenue 9 July 1904.
Pennsylvania Station was formally opened on 1 Aug 1910
The first train was Long Island RR on 8 September 1910.
At 1202 AM 27 November 1910 the first west bound PRR Train departed the station.
At 12:50 AM the first east bound train arrived from Philadelphia.
 
Pete Heimbach
  		 	   		  
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