02830oam 22006014a 450 991082735740332120240514015907.00-253-00155-2(CKB)2550000000040445(EBL)713689(OCoLC)735596667(SSID)ssj0000540602(PQKBManifestationID)11324650(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540602(PQKBWorkID)10585775(PQKB)10424181(SSID)ssj0000581622(PQKBManifestationID)11347266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000581622(PQKBWorkID)10536922(PQKB)11086605(MdBmJHUP)muse17106(MiAaPQ)EBC713689(EXLCZ)99255000000004044520100329h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe railroad that never was Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad /Herbert H. Harwood, Jr1st ed.Bloomington :Indiana University Press,2010.©20101 online resource (xi, 165 pages) illustrations, mapsRailroads past & presentDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-01379-8 0-253-35548-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 brokerRailroads past and present.RailroadsDesign and constructionRailroadsDesign and construction.385.09748Harwood Herbert H.Jr.858167MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910827357403321The railroad that never was4087523UNINA