A photograph taken around 1910 (later colorized) of the new Pennsylvania Station, New York City, which was scheduled to open on November 27, 1910. The Pennsylvania Railroad announced the opening of this station in a “Bulletin” printed in the Elizabethville Echo, October 20, 1910. Unfortunately, for those living in the Lykens Valley, there was no easy way to get to this New York City station. By the Pennsylvania Railroad, the best way was to go via Harrisburg and Philadelphia and then transfer to the railroad’s New York service.
OPENING OF THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA STATION IN NEW YORK
On Sunday, November 27 [1910] full train service will be inaugurated by the Pennsylvania Railroad to and from its new station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-Second Street Station, New York City.
The location of the Pennsylvania Station, one block from Broadway, two blocks from Fifth Avenue, is in the heart of the hotel, club and theatre district of Manhattan. Within a short radius are located the majority of the big retail stores and restaurants. The Seventh Avenue surface cars and the Eighth Avenue surface cars pass its doors; the Thirty-Fourth Street Surface Cars (crosstown) pass its Thirty-fourth Street entrance and stations of the Sixth Avenue Elevated and Hudson and Manhattan Tubes are a short block from its main entrance.
Time tables showing the service to and from the Pennsylvania Station are now being arranged, and may be obtained at Ticket Offices before the opening of the Station.
Connections will be made at Manhattan Transfer (near Newark) with local trains to and from the downtown stations by way of Jersey City, so that downtown New York passengers who desire may continue to use the Cortland and Desbrosses Street Stations and the Hudson Terminal Station of the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes.
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Trains entering the station were electrified. This colorized post card view is from about 1911 and shows a Class DD-1 locomotive arriving at the station.
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A black and white photograph (later colorized) from around 1910 of the main passenger waiting room at Penn Station, New York City.
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A 1911 black and white photograph (later colorized) of an electric locomotive (Class DD-1) pulling a train of passenger cars out of Penn Station. The train was powered through a “third rail”.
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News bulletin obtained from Newspapers.com. Photos are in the public domain and were obtained through Wikipedia.
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