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Person: John Edgar Thomson
Pennsylvania Railroad Memorial Plaques
* Memorials to William Wallace Atterbury,
George Gibbs
and
John Edgar Thomson
* small
heads,
trains
* inscription:
1866-1935
William Wallace Atterbury
Tenth President of The Pennsylvania Railroad
Director General of Transportation of
American Expeditionary Forces - World War I.
Friend of Labor - Pioneer in collective bargaining
Servant of the American people in war and peace
With courage and foresight he introduced
electrification in to the railroad's system
1861 - 1940
George Gibbs
Consulting Engineer
Whose vision and tenacity of purpose
led to the development of the
Pennsylvania Railroad's articulated
electric locomotive class GG1
placed in operation 1934
and contributed so much to the
advancement of the art of electric railroad
transportation
1808 - 1874
J. Edgar Thomson
Father of the Pennsylvania Railroad
First Chief Engineer - Third President
He planned the railroad's present system
He left his fortune in trust for
the education and maintenance of female orphans
of railway employees whose fathers may have
been killed in the discharge of their duties
* North Waiting Room.
30th Street Station.
Northeast corner, 30th and Market.
* 39.956205,-75.181755 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* Exhibits: Mass Transit
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's William Wallace Atterbury page
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page
