商品簡介
Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late nineteenth century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountatin terrian was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburg and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, the South Pennsylvania Railroad was intended to break the Pennsylvania Railroad's near-monopoly in the region. The line was within a year of opening when J. P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right-of-way and its tunnels sat Idle for sixty years before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway.
作者簡介
Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., spent thirty years in various management positions at the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio as well as their successor, CSX Transportation. He is author of the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway (Indiana University Press, 2008).
