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Author : Ken Kobus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966319101
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle written by Ken Kobus and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bezilla
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029910
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Branch Line Empires written by Michael Bezilla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs
Author : Eugene Weiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300640782
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad: A Brief Look in Time written by Eugene Weiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin P. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad written by Edwin P. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Staff for the Penn Central Enquiry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Penn Central and Other Railroads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Special Staff for the Penn Central Enquiry and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania. Railroad Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission written by Pennsylvania. Railroad Commission and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1616731370
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Coal Trains written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary photographs convey the drama of the enterprise: the very long—and very heavy—trains powering up mountain grades and thundering across barren prairies. At sites from the eastern and western U.S., past and present, readers see giant double-headed Norfolk and Western steam locomotives moving Appalachian coal in Virginia; modern CSX diesels dragging unit coal trains over the well-groomed former Chesapeake & Ohio main line; BNSF’s SD70MACs with more than 100 hoppers in tow; Rio Grande locomotives snaking through the Rocky Mountains; and coal trains working full-throttle up Colorado’s Tennessee Pass, cresting the Continental Divide at 10,000 feet above sea level. Taking up topics ranging from the colorful but now-defunct “anthracite roads” of eastern Pennsylvania to today’s AC-traction diesels that work Wyoming’s thriving Powder River Basin, Solomon reveals how for 150 years the unique demands of coal—and America’s demand for coal—have prompted new railroad technologies.
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207629
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
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.
Author : Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Report of the Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission for the Year Ending ... written by Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. McGonigal
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heart of the Pennsylvania Railroad written by Robert S. McGonigal and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Pennsy main line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and the three divisions that operated it. Photos and explanations trace the line's electric, steam, and diesel locomotives in all their glory.
Author : E. P. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad written by E. P. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811748871
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.
Author : William Bender Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342362
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The WPA Guide to Pennsylvania written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The Keystone State is well represented in the WPA Guide to Pennsylvania. The essays explore the rich descriptions of the states historically significant cities—such as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia—as well as the diversity of the state which also includes many farms and small mining communities.
Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971047
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh and the Appalachians written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book assesses how Pittsburgh deindustrialization over the past decades has posed both opportunities and challenges for the city and surrounding tri-state area.
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Publisher : US History Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1603540377
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State written by and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on 1940 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
