Series XXI: Pennsylvania Railroad: Enola Yards, Rutherford Yards, Harrisburg Penn Station

This series consists of photographs of the Pennsylvania Railroad's facilities in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 6, are referred to by the letter H in testimony, and were taken by J.H. Ritchie. Mr. Ritchie was employed as a fireman and engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, working in both road and yard service, assigned to work the Enola Yards. The Pennsylvania Railroad was a class I railroad operating in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern United States, with its headquarters in Pennsylvania. This series document's the PRR's facilities in and around Harrisburg. This includes the Enola Yards, which was the largest freight yard in the world until 1956. The Enola Yards contained a diesel locomotive shop, a 43-stall roundhouse, two hump classification yards, and 145 miles of track. The Enola Yards were electrified in 1938, and the pictures in this series show some of those power lines. This series also contains photographs of the Harrisburg Penn Station, one of many of the stations and terminals built by the PRR. This station was built in 1887 and is a designated National Historic Landmark.