Author: Pennsylvania. Highway Planning Commission
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Pennsylvania Highways Today and Tomorrow
Author: Pennsylvania. Highway Planning Commission
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Pennsylvania's Highways
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Highways
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Pennsylvania Highways
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Highways
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike
Author: Mitchell E. Dakelman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439631840
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439631840
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
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Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Highways
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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General History of Pennsylvania Roads
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Pennsylvania Highways Beautiful
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Highways
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike
Author: Dan Cupper
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Report
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Highways
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Historic Highways of America ...: The Old Glade (Forbe's) Road (Pennsylvania State Road)
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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