The railroad that never was Vanderbilt, Morgan and the Southern Pennsylvania Railroad
"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, t...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
| Series: | Railroads past and present.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Harwood, Herbert H., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The railroad that never was: |b Vanderbilt, Morgan and the Southern Pennsylvania Railroad / |c Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. |
| 250 | |a First paperback edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Bloomington, Indiana : |b Indiana University Press, |c 2016. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2010 | |
| 300 | |a xi, 165 pages : |b illustrations, maps, portraits ; |c 26 cm | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a Railroads past & present | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "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 brokered a peace treaty with the Pennsy that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right-of-way and its tunnels sat idle for 60 years before coming to life in the late 1930s and the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth of this mysterious railway. | ||
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