Baldwin-Hamilton Company Records

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Baldwin-Hamilton Company Records While the primary responsibility of the Pennsylvania State Archives is to preserve and make available for research the records created by the activities of state government, an important secondary charge is to preserve privately created manuscripts and corporate records that illuminate the history of the Commonwealth. One of the largest such collections is Manuscript Group (MG) 427, the...
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The Big Engines That Could

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Big Engines That Could On a blustery, chilly day in autumn of 1939, a dapper-looking man in his mid-forties climbed onto a railway station platform in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to watch the approach of a train. Amid billowing steam, shrouds of smoke, and rumbling loud enough to unnerve him, he watched an enormous locomotive scream past his vantage point. The sleek, sculpted machine, effortlessly pulling a passenger train,...
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Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Streamlined Electric Locomotive Number 4859

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Streamlined Electric Locomotive Number 4859 For years, admirers have proclaimed Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) to be the quintessential twentieth-century designei? anointing him “the man who shaped America.” Adherents cite a Litany of “everyday” articles that bear his imprint, among them automobiles, refrigerators, buses, furniture, fountain pens, cigarette packages, soft drink bottles, pencil sharpeners, and railroad...
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Raymond Loewy Lounge Railcar Design at Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Raymond Loewy Lounge Railcar Design at Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania As competition among railroads increased, propelled by waves of increasingly sophisticated travelers, bar cars – often called refreshment, club, lounge, or café cars – became common during the heyday of American rail service in the 1930s. Today these cars are dwindling in number and popularity, even though they evoke the glamorous days of civilized business travel of the...
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