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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>From Triumph V – <st1:City w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:City> to <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State> 1830 –
2002<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Authors David W. Messer and Charles S. Roberts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>26 Dec 1901 PRR President Cassatt presented a plan for electrifying the
railroad from <st1:City w:st="on">Harrison</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">NJ</st1:State>
thru the NJ Meadow Lands and then via a tunnel under Bergin Hill and the Hudson
River to a grand Terminal in midtown <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>In April 1902 Charles Follen McKim was contracted as Architect. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Ground breaking for the station was held at 31<sup>st</sup> Street and
Ninth Avenue 9 July 1904.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Pennsylvania Station was formally opened on 1 Aug 1910<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>The first train was Long Island RR on 8 September 1910.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>At 1202 AM 27 November 1910 the first west bound PRR Train departed the
station.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>At 12:50 AM the first east bound train arrived from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Pete Heimbach<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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