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Arnold, Ralph
Anderson. (1996). The Indiana and Ohio Rail System: a single case study in
viability (Doctoral dissertation, The Union Institute, 1996). Dissertation
Abstracts International, 57 (2), 888A.
This dissertation focuses on the Indiana
and Ohio Rail System, not on the PRR. However it presents information about
the origins of this shortline railroad in southwestern Ohio. The previous
abandonments and mergers of several railroads, including the Pennsylvania
Railroad, provided the opportunity for the creation of this shortline railroad
and many others in the Mideast United States. Therefore it may be useful to
those interested in the PRR. Arnold observed and photographed the entire
Indiana and Ohio system, and presents many photographs. (132 pages, thesis)
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Barnhart, H.A. (1915). The business
organization of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Unpublished thesis, Indiana
University.
Note: Thesis (A.B.), Indiana University. Not annotated.
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Barriger, J.W. (1921). A corporate history of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846 -- 1890. Unpublished thesis, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Not annotated.
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Beatty, W.D. (1888). A review of the Pratt truss skew bridge
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Pottsville, Pa. Unpublished thesis, Lehigh University.
Note: Thesis (C.E.), Lehigh University. Not annotated.
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Bezilla, Michael. (1978).
The development of electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1895-1968
(Doctoral dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 1978). Dissertation
Abstracts International 39 (10), 6294A. (373 pages, thesis)
See also Books: Bezilla, Michael. (1980). Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
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Bowers, Robert D. (1962). Stability of shop craft employment
on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Unpublished Master's thesis, Pennsylvania State
University.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), Pennsylvania State University. Not annotated.
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Bruce, Stewart Cameron. (1997). Space and society in a railroad town:
The making of Renovo, Pennsylvania, 1863-1925. Unpublished Master's thesis,
Pennsylvania State University.
Note: Thesis (M.S.), Pennsylvania State University. Not annotated.
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Bryant, P.R. (1946). Phyllis Roberts Bryant, The New York
and Pennsylvania Railroad. Unpublished thesis,
Cornell University.
Note: Theses written using holdings of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University. Not annotated.
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Calmes, A.M. (1991). Pennsylvania Railroad
press releases: A review from 1910-1958. . Unpublished Master's thesis,
University of Maryland at College Park.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), University of Maryland at College Park. Not annotated.
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Campbell, P.B. (1947). A history of steam
motive power development on the Pennsylvania railroad. Unpublished thesis,
University of Cincinnati.
Note: Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati. Not annotated.
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Claeys, T.E.J. (2003). Construction of the Pennsylvania
Railroad's New York tunnel extension. Unpublished Master's thesis,
East Stroudsburg University.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), East Stroudsburg University. Not annotated.
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Clark, W.L. (1936). George B. Roberts' administration of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Unpublished thesis, Harvard University.
Note: Thesis (A.B.), Harvard University. Not annotated.
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Conant, Alan. (1988). Pennsylvania R.R. Station, Richmond,
Indiana: a proposal for reuse and survey of the field. Unpublished master's thesis,
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Conant's thesis, completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Science in Historic
Preservation degree, focuses on the Pennsylvania Railroad station designed by
D.H. Burnham & Co. and built in Richmond in 1902-1903. This station is the
last example of Burnham & Co.'s railroad station work in Indiana. The thesis
provides an extensive history of the station including the previous station
that stood on the site and the site after construction of the PRR station.
Conant's history also covers early railroad expansion and operations in
Indiana, especially in the Richmond area. His description chapters present
detailed descriptions of the interior and exterior of this Beaux-Arts,
Neo-Classical Revival Style, station. Conant also surveys the field of
railroad station reuse across the United States and then includes a proposal
for reuse of the Richmond station as a "Museum of Richmond Industries".
Three appendices include a table showing the relative costs of several station
reuse projects around the country, a list of railroad structures that have
been reused as restaurants and museums, and portions of the Secretary of the
Interior's Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. Forty-eight
photographs or illustrations are included, and, of course, a bibliography of
relevant published materials. Unfortunately Conant’s proposal apparently was
never implemented. The building stood vacant in August 2000. (162 pages,
thesis)
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Coody, M.O. (2009). Analysis of preservation failure and its lessons:
The adaptive re-use of the Pennsylvania Railroad Power House in Long Island City.
Unpublished Master's thesis, Columbia University.
Note: Thesis (M.S.), Columbia University. Not annotated.
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Diehl, J.C. (1910). A study of reducing the helper
grade at Horn, Renovo Div. P.R.R. Unpublished thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not annotated.
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Dunlap, W.C. (1915). A cost estimate for a proposed change in
the terminal facilities of the Pennsylvania railroad at Princeton, N.J.
Unpublished thesis, Princeton.
Note: Thesis (C.E.), Civil Engineering, Princeton. Not annotated.
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Garrity, N.E. (1964). A study of railroad
mergers with emphasis on the proposed Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad merger.
Unpublished Master's thesis, Bucknell University.
Note: Thesis (C.E.), Economics and Business Administration, Bucknell University. Not annotated.
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Grimm, Harry Miller. (1915). The design and construction of
a freight yard for the Pennsylvania railroad at West Brownsville Junction, Pennsylvania.
Unpublished thesis, Pennsylvania State College.
Note: Thesis in Civil Engineering and Sanitary Engineering, Pennsylvania State
College. Not annotated.
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Hegarty, W.W. (1885). A review of the R.R.
bridge over the Lehigh Canal at Bethlehem, Pa. Unpublished thesis,
Lafayette College.
Note: Thesis in Civil Engineering, Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.). Not annotated.
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Owen. (1975). The early pension plans of the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pennsylvania Railroads, 1880-1937 (Doctoral dissertation, University of
Nebraska, 1974). Dissertation Abstracts International, 35 (8), 4840A.
Higgins examines the pension plans of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, implemented in 1884, and the Pennsylvania
Railroad, implemented in 1900. They were among the earliest and largest of
the more than 400 formal railroad and industrial pension plans in the United
States before 1930. As such, they significantly influenced other railroad
pension plans and had some influence on other industries. Early pension plans
were employee welfare plans that tried to counteract the
late-nineteenth-century labor actions, including strikes and the formation of
unions and brotherhoods. These two plans formalized the policies of
qualification for a pension and fixed the benefit levels. Actually they were
broad employee welfare programs that included sickness, accident and death
benefits, savings bank services, surgical care for injured workers, and other
programs. Unlike the European plans that influenced them, they were
noncontributory and covered all employees instead of only salaried staff. In
addition, both plans were financed out of current revenues. The Pennsylvania
plan provided a disability pension for those over 65 with 30 years of service
and compulsory retirement for all workers at age 70. Also, it resulted in one
of the earliest policies to limit employment to younger workers by restricting
employment of new workers to persons less than 35 years of age, which was
raised to 45 in 1907. The Pennsylvania Railroad pension plan paid more than
$105 million in benefits during its 37 years of existence, until the federal
Railroad Retirement Board took over the pension plans of all U.S. railroads in
1937. (117 pages, thesis)
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Holland, Theodore
James, Jr. (1993). Time, space, and dialogue in the steam-era railroaders’
world and oral narrative: a Bakhtinian perspective (Doctoral dissertation,
The Union Institute, 1993). Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (5),
1855A.
Holland’s ethnographic study of the daily work experiences of steam-era
railroad workers in the PRR shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania uses oral
narratives. He examines in detail the tasks of a Pennsylvania Railroad car
inspector in Altoona’s westbound yards in the 1950s. He applies Bakhtinian
concepts to focus on the conditions and decisions that impact the negotiation
of social time and space. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian
philosopher/theorist. (383 pages, thesis)
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Hoover, J.L. (1935). The Pennsylvania railroad company,
the organization. Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Kentucky.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), University of Kentucky. Not annotated.
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Killmer, Miles I. (1909).
The construction of the Pennsylvania railroad company's East River
tunnels, in New York City... Unpublished thesis, Pennsylvania State College.
Note: Thesis in Civil Engineering and Sanitary Engineering, Pennsylvania State
College. Not annotated.
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Kuncio, G.M. (1993). Labor representation and the
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1918-1938. Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Delaware.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), University of Delaware. Not annotated.
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Kunkle, R.C. (2000). Sic gloria transit: The Pennsylvania
Railroad's perpetuation of its own economic collapse. Unpublished thesis,
Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
Note: Thesis (Honors), Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Lefton, James A. (1948). Selling Pennsylvania railroad
freight service. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Marketing, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Leuthner, S.G. (1965). A visual communication piece: Concerning the
remaining steam locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad located at Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
Unpublished Master's thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (M.F.A.), Rochester Institute of Technology. Not annotated.
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Logan, J.W., Kinghorn, A.H., and Elliott, J.T. (1920). Energy consumption
and traffic conditions of the Philadelphia-Paoli electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Unpublished thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not annotated.
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MacKavanagh, Kelvin Laurence. (1961). An analysis of
Pennsylvania railroad freight service since 1946. Unpublished master's thesis,
University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Transportation and Public Utilities, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Majewski, John D. (1994). Commerce and community:
economic culture and internal improvements in Pennsylvania and Virginia,
1790-1860 (Doctoral dissertation, University
of California, Los Angeles, 1994). Dissertation Abstracts International, 55
(9), 2964A.
Majewski contends that community institutions promoted commercial markets. He studied
two localities, Albemarie County, Virginia and Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia financiers helped finance the Cumberland Valley
Railroad in Cumberland County Pennsylvania, while Virginians lacked the
necessary financial capital for railroad development. The Cumberland Valley
Railroad eventually became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. (354
pages, thesis)
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Mapes, Mark Gregory. (2000). Losing steam: the decision-making
process in the dieselization of the Pennsylvania Railroad (Doctoral dissertation,
University of Delaware, 2000). Dissertation Abstracts International, 61 (3),
1133A.
Mapes addresses the decision-making process in the dieselization of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. The process was competed by the late 1950s. However it began back
in the 1920s when diesel-electrics first entered rail service. Mapes
concentrates on the process of adoption of innovations rather than on the
development of new technologies. This adoption involved three separate
processes involving switchers, passenger locomotives, and freight
locomotives. Mapes shows that managerial decisions result from complex
circumstances and considerations. (369 pages, thesis)
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Maschi, A.P., and Driscoll, J.J. (1926). A study of the
possibility of using low voltage A.C. on the third rail system entering the Pennsylvania
terminal. Unpublished thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not annotated.
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McGrew, L.J. (1985). Thomas Williams vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company:
An examination of the Allegheny lawyer's campaign against the railroad company.
Unpublished Master's thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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McPherson, W.H. (1924). Employee representation for shop
craft employees on the Pennsylvania railroad system.
Unpublished Master's thesis, Ohio State University.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), Ohio State University. Not annotated.
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Miller, Lorimer Douglas and Morgan, Wilfrid Ryan. (1896). Design of the electrical
equipment for the Germantown and Chestnut Hill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia : the
road at present being operated by steam. Unpublished Master's thesis, Cornell University.
Note: Joint Thesis (M.E. in E. E.), Cornell University. Not annotated.
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Mould, David Harley. (1989). Canals and railroads in
the Hocking Valley region of Ohio, 1825-1875 (Doctoral dissertation, Ohio
University, 1989). Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (12), 4075A.
Mould discusses the transportation history of the Hocking Valley region of Ohio
including the Hocking Canal to Athens, which was built in the late 1830s. He
also discusses the railroad promotion and speculation that began in the
1850s. The Wilmington & Zanesville and Scioto & Hocking Valley railroads
failed, while the Marietta & Cincinnati became the region’s most successful
railroad. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad took active
roles in lending financial support to railroads in an attempt to build
networks of tributary lines in Ohio. (426 pages, thesis)
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Nelson, Scott Reynolds. (1995). Public fictions: the
Southern Railway and the construction of the South, 1848-1885 (Doctoral
dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994). Dissertation
Abstracts International, 56 (7), 2841A.
This dissertation deals with the creation of the regional identity of the South and
how it was affected by corporate consolidation. In 1867 the Pennsylvania
Railroad attempted to develop a more direct railroad route between Richmond
and Atlanta using a loosely woven network of railways that had been formed
during the Civil War by the Confederate government. However the efforts of
the Union-based PRR were violently opposed by many groups in the area,
including the Klan. The Pennsylvania then formed the Southern Railway
Security Company. The SRSC, one of the first holding companies in the United
States, succeeded in gaining complete control of all he major rail lines
between Richmond and Atlanta by 1871. The SRSC’s tactics included buying
newspapers in the region, and embracing the political opponents of
reconstruction. Nelson claims that the company constructed a unified
commercial region known as the South by the 1880s. (232 pages, thesis)
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O'Neill, H., & Winterstein, H. B.
(1909). A proposal to electrify a section of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Unpublished
thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Not annotated.
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Poor, L. H.
(1923). Improvement of the public freight facilities on the Pennsylvania railroad
system at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Unpublished thesis, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), Dept. of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Not annotated.
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Reed, Alison Janet. (1989). The Bryn Mawr Hotel: the
relationship between the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the nineteenth-century railroad
resort hotel. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.S. in historic preservation, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Samber, Mark David. (1995). Networks of capital: creating and
maintaining a regional industrial economy in Pittsburgh, 1865-1919 (Doctoral dissertation,
Carnegie Mellon University, 1995). Dissertation Abstracts International, 56 (5), 1949A.
Samber’s dissertation presents a longitudinal analysis of economic and industrial
growth and decline of Pittsburgh from 1865 to 1919. The important role of the
railroad industry, and the PRR, in fostering the growth of Pittsburgh’s iron,
steel, and manufacturing firms is part of his discussion. (501 pages, thesis)
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Sample, J. C. (1896). Review and design of the trainshed of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, New Jersey. Unpublished thesis,
University of Illinois.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), University of Illinois. Not annotated.
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Scott, W. K. (1940). The financial history of the Pennsylvania
railroad company, 1920-1938. Unpublished master's thesis,
Duke University.
Note: Thesis (A.M.), Duke University. Not annotated.
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Shields, Charles Melvin. (1955). Frank Thomson, 1841-1899,
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1897-1899. Unpublished Master's thesis,
Pennsylvania State University.
Note: Thesis (M.A.), Pennsylvania State
University. Not annotated.
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Silva, Jonathan Augustus. (1998). The Development of American
marketing thought and practice, 1902-1940 (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University,
1998). Dissertation Abstracts International, 59 (5), 1741A.
Silva examines the evolution of marketing thought and practice during the first
forty years of the twentieth century. During this time marketing agencies
were trying to determine marketing’s scope, and in the process they created
guidelines for others to follow. Silva shows that the development of a
consumer culture was not a top-down phenomenon, as most people believe.
Instead American businesses employed new marketing methods to adapt to an
increasingly consumer-oriented public. The work of the J. Walter Thompson
Advertising Company is featured, and that company’s work with the Pennsylvania
Railroad from 1926-1933 is covered in the last chapter (37 pages) of the
dissertation. The Pennsylvania chose J. Walter Thompson in 1926 because they
were known as an excellent scientific advertising agency. It was the first
time in the PRR’s eighty years of existence that they employed an advertising
agency. It was a time of declining railroad usage due to increased
competition, excess capacity, economic depression and difficult regulatory
controls. J. Walter Thompson managers tried to bolster PRR passenger service
by portraying railroad travel as a consumable instead of a service. However
their efforts failed to make rail travel more appealing than automobiles and
airplanes and could not combat the excessive government regulation. Silva
discusses factors that contributed to the Pennsylvania’s problems. The
company’s response to declining branch line traffic was to abandon the branch
line and to allow trucks and automobiles to continue to take over short-haul
business. Instead of trying to generate new business, railroad management
concentrated on cutting costs. President Atterbury, and other PRR managers,
viewed their problems from an engineering perspective, which focused on
boosting employee efficiency and improving productivity instead of marketing.
Thompson managers also recommended that railroads needed to clean up the
operation of their locomotives and modernize its equipment because railroad
travel did not compare well with the relatively clean automobiles and busses.
Information about the PRR makes up a small portion of this dissertation, but
it is an interesting and worthwhile portion. (356 pages, thesis)
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Spencer, F. W. (1897). A review and design of the trainshed
of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia, Penn. Unpublished thesis,
University of Illinois.
Note: Thesis (B.S.), University of Illinois. Not annotated.
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Thayer, Preston. (1993). The railroad designs of Frank
Furness: architecture and corporate imagery in the late nineteenth century
(Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1993). Dissertation Abstracts
International 54 (3), 715A.
Frank Furness produced nearly two hundred designs for three railroads, i.e.,
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and Pennsylvania
Railroad, between 1880 and 1910. Furness, Evans and Company designed stations
from Pittsburgh to the Hudson River for the PRR after 1890. Furness was a
pioneer in architecture’s role in developing corporate identity. (648 pages,
thesis)
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Ting, Shih Chi. (1937). Handling of less-than-carload freight at stations
of the Pennsylvania railroad. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Transportation and Public Utilities, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Tu, Hsiang. (1938). Handling of carload freight at stations of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Transportation and Public Utilities, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Wang, Yin Pao. (1937). The produce terminal of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia... Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Transportation and Public Utilities, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Wright, J. B. (1889). A review of the Pratt truss bridge, Pennsylvania
Railroad, Phillipsburg, N.J. Unpublished thesis, Lehigh University.
Note: Thesis (C.E.)--Lehigh University. Not annotated.
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Wu, Shien-Ming. (1956). The development of the Pennsylvania
railroad system. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
Note: M.B.A. in Transportation and Public Utilities, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania. Not annotated.
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Young, William Justin. (1887). Review of the wrought iron
bridge over the plane of the Morris Canal on Belvidere Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Phillipsburg, N.J. Unpublished thesis, Lafayette College.
Note: Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.). Dept. of Civil Engineering. Student thesis. Not annotated.
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