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Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric locomotive in the world, to run through Penn. R.R. tube to N.Y. City – Antique Print

Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric locomotive in the world, to run through Penn. R.R. tube to N.Y. City, n/a — historic photograph
Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric locomotive in the world, to run through Penn. R.R. tube to N.Y. City, n/a. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric locomotive in the world, to run through Penn. R.R. tube to N.Y. City, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Crowd standing in front of Penn. R.R. car -- the largest electric locomotive in the world, to run through Penn. R.R. tube to N.Y. City

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A crowd gathers in front of one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's electric locomotives, which the original caption calls the largest electric engine in the world, built to haul trains through the railroad's tunnel into New York City. Steam engines were barred from the tunnels under the Hudson River, so the line had to electrify its approach, a change that made the tunnels and the new terminal practical. The photograph comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency whose glass negatives document city life and transportation in the early twentieth century. The caption details are unverified, and no date is recorded.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan3,000 × 2,187 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-5615

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