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[Alexandria, Virginia?] : PBS Distribution, [2014]
©2014
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally broadcast in 2014 as an episode of the PBS television series: American Experience
A monument for the ages -- Railroads and real estate -- Building the tunnels -- Designing the station -- Opening Penn Station -- Destruction and legacy
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by the company's president, Alexander Cassatt, successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and eventually, via the Hell Gate Bridge, to New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. But just fifty-three years after the station's opening, the unthinkable happened: the financially strapped Pennsylvania Railroad announced Penn Station was slated to be destroyed in order to build Madison Square Garden
Based in part on the book Conquering Gotham: building Penn Station and its tunnels by Jill Jonnes
Licensed for public performance
Cinematography, Stephen McCarthy, Jason Longo ; editor, Sabrina Zanella-Foresi ; original music, John Kusiak, P. Andrew Willis
Narrator, Michael Murphy
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DVD; NTSC; region 1; wide screen presentation; 5.1 surround
In English; with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH)