Commemorative Pennsylvania Railroad PRR Enola Yard Baseball Cap and Polo Shirt

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prr shirt and cap
PENNSYLVANIA  RAILROAD PRR
ENOLA YARD
BASEBALL CAP
AND POLO SHIRT
"RETIREMENT SALE"
This SALE is for one use
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commemorative
Pen
nsylvania Railroad Enola Yard Baseball Cap and Polo Shirt.  The cap is "one size fits  all adjustable".  The shirt is men's medium.  The shirt was washed but never worn.  The cap was rarely worn.  Both are in excellent condition.
Enola Yard is a large rail yard  located in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, along the western shore of the  Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was the world's largest  freight yard through 1956.[1] The NYC Railroad also claimed the same title in  the early 20th century. Trains magazine, November 1941 shows Dewitt yard with  more car capacity then all single system yards of the time except Priviso. In  the 1920-30s Dewitt was claimed to be the largest in the world. Enola, Dewitt  and Proviso all shared the title as "world's largest" at one point or another.  (Usually the railroad who owned the yard would be making the claim). Enola  continues to operate today at lower traffic levels. Coordinates: 40.294666°N  76.925336°W.
The yard was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1905 with two hump classification yards.   Initially the yard processed 7,000 cars per day. The westbound complex had a  receiving yard with 20 tracks, and a 25-track classification yard. The eastbound  complex had a 21-track receiving yard and 17 classification tracks. There were  no separate departure yards.
Enola Yard was fully built out by  the late 1920s, encompassing 316 acres and a capacity of 9,692 cars. Service  buildings included a 43-stall roundhouse and a steel car shop. A yard to handle  container freight was added to the complex in 1932.
The PRR rebuilt the component  yards and installed automatic retarders, starting with the eastbound hump in  1938. The eastbound yard was electrified with 11,000-volt alternating current  (AC) service. The westbound complex was rebuilt in 1944 with 16 receiving tracks  and 35 classification tracks, followed by the eastbound complex, reconfiguring  to 15 receiving tracks and 33 classification tracks. The average daily traffic  load in 1939 was 11,207 cars, and this average increased during the approach of  World War II, with 14,100 daily cars in October 1941. The record traffic level  at the yard was 20,660 cars in one day during June 1943.
A diesel locomotive shop was  added in the late 1940s. In 1953 the yard handled 11,000 cars per day, and the  yard comprised 145 miles of track and 476 switches.  In the 1950s PRR rebuilt  Conway Yard near Pittsburgh, and upon its opening in 1959, Conway became the  railroad's major yard for east-west traffic. Traffic at Enola Yard was reduced.
Conrail took over operation of  Enola Yard in 1976. Traffic levels at the yard declined as more trains were  routed by Conrail over nearby tracks of the former Reading and Lehigh Valley  rail lines. Conrail removed electrification equipment and closed the eastbound  hump yard in 1983, and closed the westbound hump yard in 1993. The steel car  shop closed in 1996.
The yard is currently owned by  the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), which has operated a flat classification yard  and increased operations since taking over from Conrail in 1999. In 2003 NS  announced plans to resume hump yard operations.   As of 2005, the yard was  operating 79 tracks and handled 275,000 tons of freight a day.
The facilities, at its peak in  the mid-20th century, had an engine house with 46 stalls and 2 turntables. It  had two classification yards, one for east bound and one for west bound traffic,  each with a hump yard with 2,668 car capacity. The East-bound receiving yard had  a 1,948 car capacity and the west-bound receiving yard had a 1,721 car capacity.  The container yard had 140 car capacity.
Please examine the pictures - this is actual items that I will ship to you.  If it is not in the pictures, it is not included in the sale.
I recently retired and moved from a  5 bedroom house in New York to a 3 bedroom house in Florida with no basement  (attic and garage are too hot to store anything), so I must sell a lot of my  stuff, including a large number of bags.  Please help me adapt to a smaller house  and buy my well cared for things.  This item is from a smoke free  environment.
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