The railroad that never was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
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| Superior document: | Railroads past & present |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Railroads past and present.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 165 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.