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Title: Opening A New Frontier
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (sponsor), Owen Murphy Productions, inc. (production company)
Description: In association with Film Counselors, Inc. Presentation on Pennsylvania Railroad's TrucTrain, latest technique in piggybacking trucks on railroad flatcars. Follows one trip from Chicago to Jersey City. Also includes scenes of early western pioneers and automobile and truck traffic.
Collection ID: Conrail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: FILM_1993231_FC06
Collection: Conrail photographs and films, Film and Video

Title: TrucTrains on Brilliant Bridge over the Alleghany River at Pittsburgh
Date(s): 1955/1965?, 1955, 1965
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (Corporate Name) (originator)
Description: Two trailer-on-flat-car trains meet on the Brilliant Bridge over the Alleghany River at Pittsburgh during their runs between New York and Chicago.
Collection ID: ConRail photographs (Accession 1993.231)
Hagley ID: 1993231_04_06_65
Collection: Conrail photographs and films

Title: Loading Freon onto rail cars
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: One ton drums of Freon fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants are loaded on rail cars by hoist operated by a chemical worker at the DuPont Company's Chambers Works. Shipments are made in smaller steel cylinders for those customers who service household refrigerators.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3458_1
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: The Transportation Problem: Long and Short Haul, The Transportation Problem in the United States; statement on behalf of the transcontinenta-l railroads relating to water competition for transcontinenta-l traffic and supplementary to Report of the Association of Railway Executives to the National Transportation Committee.
Date(s): 1932
Creator: Association of Railway Executives (U.S.)
Contributor(s): National Transportation Committee (U.S.) (addressee), Shoup, Paul, 1874-1946 (author of introduction, etc.)
Hagley ID: I091110_trans
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Copy of shipping receipt for the Philadelphia Quartz Company from the Pennsylvania Railroad's freight station
Date(s): 1866-05-12
Contributor(s): Philadelphia Quartz Company (originator), Pennsylvania Railroad (originator)
Collection ID: PQ Corporation photographic collection (1984.258)
Hagley ID: 1984258_025
Collection: PQ Corporation photographs

Title: Coal car and barney, McMyler-Interstate Company, 1920
Date(s): 1920-02-05
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (former owner), McMyler Interstate Company (associated name)
Description: Brakeman on coal car and other employees. Photo from McMyler-Interstate Co.
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad photographs (Accession 1988.231)
Hagley ID: AVD_1988231_01_026_001
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad photographs

Title: Stenciling numbers onto insulated ore jenny car
Date(s): 1964-12
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (former owner)
Description: Picture used in Pennsy/Penn Central Post article, "The Car in the Sheepskin Coat", December 21, 1964, page 6
Collection ID: Pennsylvania Railroad photographs (Accession 1988.231)
Hagley ID: AVD_1988231_17_021_001
Collection: Pennsylvania Railroad photographs

Title: 63rd and Market Street freight station, Philadelphia
Date(s): 1918
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company (associated name), Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (associated name)
Description: Photograph is undated, but shows freight car number 8, a refrigerated car built by the J.G. Brill Company in 1918 and sold to the Sand Srpign Railway Company in 1925.
Collection ID: Red Arrow Lines photographs (Accession 1972.438)
Hagley ID: AVD_1972438_01_03_003
Collection: info:fedora/, Red Arrow Lines photographs

Title: Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Co. milk car No. 6
Date(s): 1909
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company (associated name), Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (associated name)
Description: Freight car no. 06, built by Jewett in 1909 as the company's new milk car. Sold in 1925.
Collection ID: Red Arrow Lines photographs (Accession 1972.438)
Hagley ID: AVD_1972438_01_07_001
Collection: info:fedora/, Red Arrow Lines photographs

Title: Freight cars at Llanerch car barn
Date(s): 1911-12-07
Contributor(s): Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company (associated name), Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (associated name)
Description: Line up of freight equipment at Llanerch car barn yard.
Collection ID: Red Arrow Lines photographs (Accession 1972.438)
Hagley ID: AVD_1972438_01_03_004
Collection: info:fedora/, Red Arrow Lines photographs

Title: Railroads deliver the goods!
Date(s): 1956
Contributor(s): Association of American Railroads (originator), Bunce, Bill (artist)
Collection ID: Allen H. Tweddle Collection of Railroadiana (Acc. 2639)
Hagley ID: LMSS_2639_08_14_01
Collection: Promotional comic books gallery

Title: The wheel of progress : how America's railroads help to keep the wheels of industry turning
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): Association of American Railroads (originator), Bunce, Bill (artist)
Collection ID: Allen H. Tweddle Collection of Railroadiana (Acc. 2639)
Hagley ID: LMSS_2639_08_14_04
Collection: Promotional comic books gallery