Identifier: pennsylvaniarail01penn (find matches)
Title: Pennsylvania Railroad System ... a description of its main lines and branches, with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the territory contiguous ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: (Buffalo, The Matthews-Northrup Works)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t with wide streets, many of them wellshaded by old forest trees. It has a park system of nearly 900 acres.The wharves, with the enormous grain elevators, where is received thebumper crops of grains from the great Northwest, are always interestingto visitors to the city. There are a number of important buildings in the city, notably theLucas County Courthouse and the Toledo State Hospital for the Insane. Detroit, the terminus of through cars from Pittsburgh and the East,with a population of 537,650, is noted as the greatest automobile centerin the world. Through the Detroit River is carried almost the entiretonnage of the Great Lakes. Detroit was first settled by Cadillac on July 24, 1701, when Fort Pon-chartrain was built. Taken over then by the English in 1760, the post wasbitterly besieged by Pontiac from May 9 to October 12, 1763. The townwas entirely destroyed by fire in 1805; then rebuilt and became thecapital of the territory. In 1847 the capital was removed to Lansing. f * ♦
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THE PAN HANDLE ROUTE ALONG THE OHIO Pittsburgh to Columbus Pennsylvania system trains to Chicago, via Columbus, and to Cin-cinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, and St. Louis, traverse what ispopularly known as The Pan Handle Route, over which runsThe St. Louisan and The New Yorker, companion trains with the Broadway Limited. After leaving Pittsburgh, trains speed over a long bridge spanning theMonongahela River, -and turn northward along; the west bank of the Ohiofor about two miles, thence through a tunnel under the high ridge whichshuts in Pittsburghs western borders, and up the valley of one of theswift-running little streams that feed the Ohio, to Carnegie, a busy town in the center of the Chartiers valley, which isthe heart of the famous Pittsburgh bituminous coal district. There arelarge manufacturing establishments in Carnegie, notably a number ofsteel plants. It is also the junction point with the branch lines extending south toWashington and Waynesburg. Washington is a manufact

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