The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853

by James Dilts and James D. Dilts

Book Overview

This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to railyway history but also to the broader history of the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

There was no precedent for the building of the B&O. The construction of the 380-mile line from Baltimore to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726299
• ISBN13: 9780804726290
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.1"