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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> At the beginning of the 20th century the Pennsylvania Railroad recognized that to place itself at parity with its principal competitor the New York Central it had to built its own termi- nal in Manhattan. Barring the way was a wide deep busy river the Hudson. The late 1800s were a time of rapid techno- logical development and in 1901 the railroad was able to begin a project that would take a decade and a half to complete: a new line across the marshes of New Jersey tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers a bridge across the Hell Gate from Long Island to the mainland an enor- mous passenger-train storage and service yard electrification and the keystone of the project the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Manhattan gateway Pennsylvania Station. The price tag was 160 mil- lion dollars- the equivalent of 9 billion dollars today- and they were the Pennsy’s dollars not the government’s. In Manhattan Gateway railroad historian William D. Middleton recounts the history of Pennsylvania Station: the first proposals in the late 1800s the glory years of the 1920s the demolition of the building in the 1960s and Amural’s current proposal to resurrect Penn Station by using the post office a block west of the present subterranean station. The story is enlivened and explained with photos maps and diagrams.