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New York Central Railroad

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
One of the main early railroads in the USA, which connected the eastern seaboard with the interior. Formed from a merger of ten smaller lines in 1853, it vied with its competitor, the Pennsylvania Railroad , to provide express passenger services from the east coast to Chicago. Its New York terminus was the famous Grand Central Station, on East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, and its crack Twentieth-Century Limited service to Chicago (1902–67) was one of the world's most prestigious trains. Under the directorship of the railway tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New York Central increased its network throughout the 19th century. The construction of a suspension bridge over Niagara Falls in 1855 by John A Roebling (who later built the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City) gave the railway access to the west via Canadian lines, across southern Ontario. In 1873, its acquisition of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern gave it a continuous route to Chicago, known, for its easy gradients through…
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Full text Article New York Central Railroad

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Major U.S. railroad. It was founded in 1853 to consolidate 10 railroads that paralleled the Erie Canal between Albany and Buffalo, the oldest being the Mohawk and Hudson, New York state’s first railway (established 1831). Cornelius Vanderbilt won control of the New York Central in 1867 and combined…
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Full text Article New York Central Railroad

From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The High Line in New York City is a park built on...
The New York Central Railroad, which existed under various names from 1853 to 1976, connected industrial centers in the Eastern United States to the Midwest and eastern Canada, becoming a leading freight and passenger carrier. At its peak in the early twentieth century, it was the second-largest…
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Full text Article New York Central Railroad

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
One of the main early railroads in the USA, which connected the eastern seaboard with the interior. Formed from a merger of ten smaller lines in 1853, it vied with its competitor, the Pennsylvania Railroad , to provide express passenger services from the east coast to Chicago. Its New York terminus…
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Newspaper drawing of Oliver Perry robbing the New York Central Railroad train, 1891 (litho)
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Full text Article Pennsylvania Railroad

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Former railroad company in the USA, which served major cities on the eastern seaboard, such as Philadelphia, Washington, and New York, as well as important commercial and industrial centres (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit) throughout the northeast. Its most famous rivalry was with the…
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Full text Article Dreyfuss, Henry (1904-72)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was among the first generation of American industrial designers. He began his career as a stage designer apprenticed to Norman BEL GEDDES and went freelance in 1927. In 1929 he established his own industrial design office. From the outset he insisted on working on products ‘from the inside out’ …
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Full text Article Pennsylvania Railroad

From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
At its height in the early twentieth century, the...
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), originally constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to connect Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, grew into the largest U.S. railroad by the early twentieth century. In 1910, when the railroad had achieved its maximum sprawl, its lines covered 13 states in the Midwest and…
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New York Central Railway (Railroad) photographic car, c.1895-1915 (b/w photo)
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Full text Article West New York

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Town in Hudson County, northeast New Jersey; population (1990) 38,100. It is situated atop the Palisades of the Hudson River, across from Manhattan, and 8 km/5 mi northeast of Jersey City. West New York has long been the major embroidery producing municipality in the USA. Its other manufactures…
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Full text Article Vanderbilt, Cornelius

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born May 27, 1794, Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 4, 1877, New York, N.Y.) U.S. shipping and railroad magnate. He began a passenger ferry business in New York harbour in 1810 with one boat; he added several others during the War of 1812 in order to supply government outposts. He…
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