New York Penn Station: 100 Years of Growth

This article describes how the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) was in the midst of one of the most expansive infrastructure capital programs in the history of the United States a century ago. New passenger gateways, railroad tunnels, and support facilities were being completed to provide improved passenger railroad service for the political and centers of the growing nation. Currently, as the United States is once again embarking on a major passenger railroad building era, the article looks back to the opening of the New York Pennsylvania Station in the fall of 1910. The impressive station, built in the Romanesque style, was just one of the PRR's New York Improvement and Tunnel Extension project. The article describes how the station has grown and been upgraded over the past 100 years.