The railroad that never was
Subtitle: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad
By: Herbert H. Harwood, Jr
Series: Railroads past & present; Railroads past and present
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780253355485
Subjects: South Pennsylvania Railroad; Railroads; Design and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The back story; title: Why?; title: Vanderbilt takes charge; title: The spoilers; title: The syndicate forms; title: A rugged route; title: Building a mountain railroad; title: The second front; title: Cooler heads and colder feet emerge; title: A summer cruise on the Hudson; title: Not quite dead; title: The end; title: Railroad to superhighway, more or less; title: Epilogue : ghost hunting along the South Penn.