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:

    “But go, and if you listen she will call,
    Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal—
    Luke Havergal.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)