The railroad that never was [electronic resource] : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.

By: Harwood, Herbert HContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Railroads past and presentPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010Description: xi, 165 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780253001573 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): South Pennsylvania Railroad | Railroads -- Design and constructionGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: TF25.S67 | H392 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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