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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
Pennsylvania Route 611 (PA 611) is a state highway in eastern Pennsylvania running 109.7 mi (176.5 km) from Interstate 95 (I-95) in the southern part of Philadelphia north to I-380 in Coolbaugh Township in the Pocono Mountains. Through most of Philadelphia, PA 611 follows Broad Street, the main north-south street in Philadelphia.
Circa the late 1960s the number of school districts was 2,277. The state government had passed laws encouraging these districts to merge with one another, so the figure fell to 669, and then 501, in the 1970s and then in 1981. [1] There are approximately 500 public school districts in Pennsylvania as of 2023.
These repairs left No. 611 in excellent condition when it was retired just three years later, which helped lead to its restoration to operating condition for excursion service in 1982 by N&W's successor Norfolk Southern (NS) and again in 2015 by the Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT).
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In 1928, PA 263 was designated to run from US 611 (now PA 611) in Willow Grove north to the Delaware River in Centre Bridge. [2] The Upper York Road portion of PA 263 was paved by 1940. [ 8 ] By 1970, work was underway on widening PA 263 to a four-lane highway between County Line Road and PA 413 in Buckingham. [ 9 ]
[9] [10] In 1927, US 422 replaced the US 120/PA 13 designation along the portion of Ridge Pike between Pottstown and Norristown. [11] Ridge Pike was widened to a multilane road by 1940. [ 12 ] In the 1930s, US 422 was rerouted to follow Ridge Pike and Ridge Avenue between Church Road in Barren Hill and US 1 Byp.
The portion of Germantown Pike from Sandy Hill Road to Philadelphia was designated as US 120 when the U.S. Highway System was created in 1926; US 120 was designated concurrent with PA 13. [13] [14] In 1927, US 422 replaced the US 120/PA 13 designation along this stretch of Germantown Pike. [15]