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Autore |
Harwood Herbert H., Jr. |
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The railroad that never was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-253-00155-2 |
0-253-00154-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Railroads - Design and construction |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The back story -- Why? -- Vanderbilt takes charge -- The spoilers -- The syndicate forms -- A rugged route -- Building a mountain railroad -- The second front -- Cooler heads and colder feet emerge -- A summer cruise on the Hudson -- Not quite dead -- The end -- Railroad to superhighway, more or less-- -- Epilogue : ghost hunting along the South Penn. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late 19th century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, the South Pennsylvania Railroad was intended to break the Pennsylvania Railroad's near-monopoly in the region. The line was within a year of opening when J. P. Morgan broker |
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