. Electric railway journal . American International Shipbuilding Companybuilt the line shown on the map as connecting its inter-works railway with the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-road. The lines shown as belonging to the PennsylvaniaRailroad are new extensions necessitated by the ship-yard and other war industry developments. While the steam railroad extensions solved , the Emergency Fleet Corpora-tion officials early realized that they did not constitute asolution to the problem of transporting the workmen toand from the plant. Steps were taken to secure such e
. Electric railway journal . American International Shipbuilding Companybuilt the line shown on the map as connecting its inter-works railway with the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-road. The lines shown as belonging to the PennsylvaniaRailroad are new extensions necessitated by the ship-yard and other war industry developments. While the steam railroad extensions solved , the Emergency Fleet Corpora-tion officials early realized that they did not constitute asolution to the problem of transporting the workmen toand from the plant. Steps were taken to secure such ex-tensions and reinforcements of the near-by trolley sys-tems, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and thePhiladelphia Railways as would enable them to takecare of the traffic. The P. R. T. Helps Build Ships Of the two companies the first-named, with its greatinterconnected system of surface, subway and elevatedlines, is by far the more important. As shown on themap, its nearest tracks were those traversing Eastwick 1. BEFORE THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS STARTED OPERATION 450 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 52, No. 11
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