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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
Author: Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
Author: The Railway World
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
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Category : Flood damage
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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"By your direction, there has been prepared and is submitted herewith a record of the Flood of March, 1913, and its disruption of service of your lines, in such detail as to give a general idea of the extent of the damage and the progress of the work of restoration"--Page 5
History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Author: William Bender WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Corporate History of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company
Author: Pennsylvania CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846-1946
Author: George Heckman BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
Author: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"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.
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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