Herbert H Harwood Jr

The Railroad That Never Was

Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., has carried on concurrent careers as a railroad historian, writer, photographer, and working railroader. He is author of The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway: J. P. Morgan's Magnificent Mistake (IUP, 2008), Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers (IUP, 2003), and The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story (IUP, 2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780253013798
• ISBN-10: 0253013798
• Artikelnr.: 42574235

Autorenporträt

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).

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Contents
Sources and 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