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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.
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Genre |
: Transportation |
Author |
: Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Release |
: 2010-09-06 |
File |
: 184 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253001559 |
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Genre |
: Crime |
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures |
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: |
Release |
: 1967 |
File |
: 1222 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112004582018 |
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: Credit insurance |
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly |
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: |
Release |
: 1967 |
File |
: 2052 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCBK:C047349473 |
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: |
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
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: |
Release |
: 1973 |
File |
: 66 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105045432957 |
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Genre |
: Strikes and lockouts |
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1973 |
File |
: 64 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015081211164 |
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: |
Author |
: Brian Solomon |
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: |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 304 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781610603614 |
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Genre |
: New Zealand |
Author |
: New Zealand. Parliament |
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: |
Release |
: 1899 |
File |
: 696 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSC:32106019788147 |
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Genre |
: Railroads |
Author |
: R. Yorke Clarke |
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: |
Release |
: 1848 |
File |
: 264 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433009083985 |
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: |
Author |
: Peter PROGRESS (pseud.) |
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: |
Release |
: 1847 |
File |
: 88 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0020470775 |
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Genre |
: Corporate reorganizations |
Author |
: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1979 |
File |
: 276 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015083087976 |