Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The rise & fall of Penn Station.

Publisher, Date:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014?]

[United States] : PBS Distribution

Description:

1 DVD, NTSC (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

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.

Subjects:

Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.) -- History.

Railroad stations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Railroads -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Documentary television programs.

Historical television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Murphy, Michael, 1938-

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Other Title:

Rise and fall of Penn Station

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on the PBS Network.

Special features: Engineering map of America.

A Film Posse production for American Experience ; produced by Randall MacLowry & Michael Rossi ; edited by Sabrina Zanella-Foresi ; directed and written by Randall MacLowry ; original music, John Kusiak & P. Andrew Willis ; cinematography, Stephen McCarthy & Jason Longo.

Narrator, Michael Murphy.

DVD; 5.1 surround; region 1.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

9781608830503

1608830500

Publisher Number:

RIPS601

Other Number:

866951033

System Availability:

1