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:

    “Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.”
    —Yolanda Moses (b. 1946)

    “Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature—opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)