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PRR Washington Tours 1914

The four pages below hold a variety of images and copies of various documents;

1.    Photos taken by my self in the USA mainly at the Pennsylvania State Railroad Museum at Strasburg Pa.
2.    Images of the PRR of old
3.    Scans of part of the January 1967 and January 1965 passenger timetables.
4.    Photos of American Locomotives imported into Europe
5.    A copy of a brochure from 1914 on escorted tours of Washington DC.

Below are a few statistics from the 1954-55 and 1960 editions of Jane's World Railways about the Pennsylvania Railroad.
If a comparative figure is not given there wasn't one....

 

 

1954-55

1960

Route length ( miles )

10,111

9,917

Track length ( miles )

25,110

23,555

Electrified route length

671

671

Electrified track length

2,252

2,252

Number of:

Steam locomotives

1,721

22

Electric locomotives

271

270

Diesel locomotives

1,330

1,523

Gas (petrol) locomotives

1

0

Passenger cars

5,471

4,284

Electric unit cars

499

510

Diesel railcars

19

10

Freight cars

183,925

154,847

Service cars

5,073

Floating equipment

351

Total freight carried ( Imp. Tons )

202,267,000

154,255,000

Total number of passengers carried

72,879,000

53,612,000

Revenue in US$

8442321000

Expenses in US$

7151859000

 

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