The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad Tapa blanda - 2015

Indiana University Press, 9/7/2015 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Very Good. 0.5118 in x 10.0000 in x 7.0079 in. Overall in Very Good Condition. Includes Dust Cover When Hard Cover. Tight Binding. Clean Text with No Markings.Selling On Amazon Since 2006.

Indiana University Press, 2015-09-07. Paperback. Like New.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. First Paperback Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. 165pp. Illustrated Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Indiana University Press, 2015-09-07. Paperback. New.

Indiana Univ Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 165 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. 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 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 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.

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