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Autore: | Harwood Herbert H., Jr. |
Titolo: | The railroad that never was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2010 |
©2010 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina: | 385.09748 |
Soggetto topico: | Railroads - Design and construction |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The railroad that never was |
ISBN: | 0-253-00155-2 |
0-253-00154-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781500203321 |
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