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A Special History Study
Author | : John C. Paige |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780332753546 |
Excerpt from A Special History Study: Pennsylvania Railroad Shops and Works in Altoona, Pennsylvania The Allegheny Mountains Prior to the Coming of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Creation and Coming of the Pennsylvania Railroad 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author | : Albert J. Churella |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812207629 |
"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.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, 1940s-1950s
Author | : Don Ball |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 0393023575 |
Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.
Record and Index
Author | : American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Mechanical engineering |
ISBN | : |
"Contains historical and reference material heretofore published in the Year book and Transactions." -- Foreward, v. 1.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Author | : Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811729567 |
A guidebook to the museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, covering the history of the state's railroad industry, with a tour of the 100,000-square-foot exhibit hall, which displays dozens of historic locomotives and rolling stock significant to Pennsylvania's railroad heritage. A complete checklist of the museum's collection of rolling stock is included.
HABS/HAER Review
Author | : Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Information for Employes and the Public
Author | : Pennsylvania Railroad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |