Keystone Corridor Electrification – Southeast PA

City:
Harrisburg, Lancaster, Paoli, PA

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Description

Electrification of the Keystone [rail] Corridor “west of Paoli to Harrisburg came in the 1930s, after the PRR completed electrifying its New York-Washington, D.C. section (the present-day Northeast Corridor).” The total cost … was financed by government-supported loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Public Works Administration.”

Source notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Corridor

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on December 22, 2014.

Location Info


PA

Location notes: Sample point along the Keystone Corridor, which passes through Lancaster

Coordinates: 40.054883, -76.308170

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