Growth and development of the Pennsylavania railroad company
Author : H.W. Schotter
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Railroads
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Author : H.W. Schotter
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Railroads
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Author : Howard Ward Schotter
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Railroads
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Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : 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.
Author : William Bender Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Railroads
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Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0811748871
Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.
Author : Eugene Weiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1300640782
The History of the American Railroads takes you from the beginning to the current history of the railroads and the people that forged America as we know it today. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the first pioneers in the founding of the industrial age of America and was one of the longest running railroads in history until being absorbed by the CSX Railroad. The first in the series, many people have come together to help put this book into print.
Author : Richard T. Wallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253338723
95 t / £30.50ContentsIntroductionPreludeExecutiveOwnerThe StrikeSystem BuilderIvesThe CrashCaretakerPostlude
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
Page : 2034 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1938
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Holding companies
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 2010 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Holding companies
ISBN :