Western Extension

Western Extension is generally used for any westward expansion of a road, rail line or populated place. It may also have one of the following meanings:

  • The Western Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
  • Western Extension of a Maryland railroad
  • South Carolina Western Extension Railway
  • Western Extension Area

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or extension:

    The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We are now a nation of people in daily contact with strangers. Thanks to mass transportation, school administrators and teachers often live many miles from the neighborhood schoolhouse. They are no longer in daily informal contact with parents, ministers, and other institution leaders . . . [and are] no longer a natural extension of parental authority.
    James P. Comer (20th century)