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Brief History Of The Cumberland And Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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Book Synopsis Targeted Tracks by : Scott L. Mingus, Sr.
Download or read book Targeted Tracks written by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. The Cumberland Valley Railroad's location enhanced its importance during some of the Civil War's most critical campaigns. The primary sources, combined with the expertise of the authors, bring this largely untold story to life.
Book Synopsis The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 by : Albert J. Churella
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Book Synopsis On the Main Line by : Edwin P. Alexander
Download or read book On the Main Line written by Edwin P. Alexander and published by New York : C.N. Potter. This book was released on 1971 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by : William Bender Wilson
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Cumberland Valley Railroad 1835-1919 by : Paul J. Westhaeffer
Download or read book History of the Cumberland Valley Railroad 1835-1919 written by Paul J. Westhaeffer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Cumberland County by : Joseph David Cress
Download or read book Hidden History of Cumberland County written by Joseph David Cress and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rolling fields and quiet towns of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, belie its dynamic history. From slaves who escaped to freedom through Underground Railroad stations in Shippensburg and Boiling Springs to a telephone-like invention created by Lower Allen's Daniel Drawbaugh a full decade before the patent of Alexander Graham Bell, the pages of Cumberland County's history conceal long-forgotten but true tales. There are numerous but often-overlooked contributions from county residents--from 1920 to 1923, Newville hosted the first state police academy in the nation, and during World War II, a humble bandage invented in Carlisle saved countless lives. With an engaging collection of vignettes, author Joseph David Cress explores these and other hidden tales from the history of Cumberland County.
Download or read book Coal and Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poor's Manual of Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States ... by :
Download or read book Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company by : William Bender Wilson
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Railroad Company and New York Central Railroad Company Merger by : Pennsylvania Railroad
Download or read book Pennsylvania Railroad Company and New York Central Railroad Company Merger written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interstate Commerce Commission Reports by : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroads of Pennsylvania by : Lorett Treese
Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the great railroads. Rail stories of the people and events that shaped history. Includes Rails to Trails paths, tourist attractions, and more.
Book Synopsis ... Tenth Census: Transportation by : United States. Census Office
Download or read book ... Tenth Census: Transportation written by United States. Census Office and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tenth Census of the United States, 1880: Transportation by : United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Download or read book Tenth Census of the United States, 1880: Transportation written by United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State by : Roger L. Williams
Download or read book Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State written by Roger L. Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
