The railroad that never was Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad /
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2010.
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| Edice: | Railroads past and present.
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| On-line přístup: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Obsah:
- 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.