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200 14$aThe Railroad That Never Was$b[electronic resource] $eVanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad /$fHerbert H. Harwood, Jr
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (183 p.)
225 1 $aRailroads past & present
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-253-35548-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe 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.
330   $aHerbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late 19th century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, the South Pennsylvania Railroad was intended to break the Pennsylvania Railroad's near-monopoly in the region. The line was within a year of opening when J. P. Morgan broker
410  0$aRailroads past and present.
606   $aRailroads$xDesign and construction
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aRailroads$xDesign and construction.
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700   $aHarwood$b Herbert H.$cJr.$0858167
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906   $aBOOK
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