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The Railroad That Never Was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
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...
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2010.
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Sources & Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Prelude: The Omnipotent Pennsylvania Railroad; 2 The Back Story; 3 Why?; 4 Vanderbilt Takes Charge; 5 The Spoilers; 6 The Syndicate Forms; 7 A Rugged Route; 8 Building a Mountain Railroad; 9 The Second Front; 10 Cooler Heads and Colder Feet Emerge; 11 A Summer Cruise on the Hudson; 12 Not Quite Dead; 13 The End; 14 Railroad to Superhighway, More or Less . . .; 15 Epilogue: Ghost Hunting along the South Penn; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
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