Identifier: newyorkimproveme00penn (find matches)
Title: The New York improvement and tunnel extension of the Pennsylvania railroad. Issued October, 1910
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels Tunnels Tunnels
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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rried over72,000,000, in 1896 more than 94,000,000 and in 1906about 140,000,000 people. In 1890 the population gathered within a circle of19 miles radius, with City Hall, Manhattan, as thecenter, was 3,326,998; in 1900 it was 4,612,153, andfive years later it was 5,404,638, an increase in tenyears of 38 per cent. In 1913 it is estimated that thepopulation of this territory will approximate sixmillion people, and in 1920 eight million. These startling figures, and what they meant intransportation needs, in addition to the serious problemof providing corresponding freight facilities, wereconsidered when the Pennsylvania Railroad was con-templating entering New York City. It was evidentthat one of the greatest transportation problems inhistory was rapidly evolving, and it was only by quickaction that the Railroad could prepare to cope with it. With the traffic in and out of New York Citygrowing more rapidly than it had during any periodin the last twenty years, the question confronting 6
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Pennsyhania Station— Detail of Main Entrance onSeventh Avenue Pennsylvanla Station— Detail of Driveway Entrance,Thirty-first Street and SeventhAvenue The Pennsylvania Railroads New York Improvement the Management of the Railroad was whether thevolume of this traffic was such as to warrant anyother method of transportation than ferries for cross-ing North and East Rivers. The action taken bythe Pennsylvania Railroad shows how it met thissituation, and the result is the New York Stationand Tunnel Extension. Ill There were many reasons for the construction ofthis great improvement. The Company desired toprovide for the future by enlarging the present facili-ties for freight and passenger traffic, because of thecontinuous growth in this traffic. To accomplish thisbefore the cost became almost prohibitive, or the taskimpossible because of the construction of other under-ground transportation lines, meant that no time shouldbe lost. It was the Companys plan to run its passengertrains in

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