Dates for NH Penn Station

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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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