The Railroad That Never Was Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad /

Harwood, Herbert H.

The Railroad That Never Was Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / [Recurso electrónico] : Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 165 p. :) ill., maps ; - Railroads past & present . - Railroads past and present. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780253001559 0253001552




South Pennsylvania Railroad.


Railroads--Design and construction.


Electronic books.

TF25.S67 / H392 2010

385.09748