Railroad That Never Was (eBook)

Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

Herbert H. Harwood (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
184 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00155-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly).   Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would 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, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region.   But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.   Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.

Autor

Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., spent 30 years in various management positions at the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio as well as their successor, CSX Transportation. He is author of The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway (IUP, 2008).

Inhalt

ContentsSources and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prelude: The Omnipotent Pennsylvania Railroad2. The Back Story3. Why?4. Vanderbilt Takes Charge5. The Spoilers6. The Syndicate Forms7. A Rugged Route8. Building a Mountain Railroad9. The Second Front10. Cooler Heads and Colder Feet Emerge11. A Summer Cruise on the Hudson12. Not Quite Dead13. The End14. Railroad to Superhighway, More or Less...15. Epilogue: Ghost Hunting along the South PennNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 50 b&w illus., 20 maps
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Gewicht: 40 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: History • Railroad and Transportation • Railroads and Transportation
• ISBN-10: 0-253-00155-2 / 0253001552
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-00155-9 / 9780253001559