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

by Herbert H. Harwood Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253013798
• ISBN13: 9780253013798
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher