History of Railroad Building + Bonus Books

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The Railroad Builders
A Chronicle of the
Welding of the States
By John Moody, 1919
257 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
Locomotives and Locomotive Building
By Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, 1886
200 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
The Modern Railroad
By Edward Hungerford, 1911
476 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Illustrated Catalog
1939
155 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
Modern Locomotives and Cars
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1939
32 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Railroads have played a large role in the development of the United States of America, from the industrial revolution in the North-east to the colonization of the West. The American railway mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended all growth. Although the South started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports, and the absence of an interconnected network was a major handicap during the Civil War.
The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860. In the heavily settled Corn Belt (from Ohio to Iowa), over 80 percent of farms were within 5 miles of a railway, facilitating the shipment of grain, hogs and cattle to national and international markets. A large number of short lines were built, but thanks to a fast developing financial system based on Wall Street and oriented to railway securities, the majority were consolidated into 20 trunk lines by 1890. State and local governments often subsidized lines, but rarely owned them
CONTENTS- The Railroad Builders
I. A CENTURY OF RAILROAD
BUILDING Page 1
II. THE COMMODORE AND THE NEW
YORK
CENTRAL 20
III. THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA
SYSTEM
47
IV. THE ERIE RAILROAD
64
V. CROSSING THE APPALACHIAN RANGE  95
VI. LINKING THE OCEANS
121
VII. PENETRATING THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST 138
VIII. BUILDING ALONG THE SANTA
FE TRAIL
154
IX. THE GROWTH OF THE HILL LINES
105
X. THE RAILROAD SYSTEM OF THE
SOUTH
179
XL THE LIFE WORK OF EDWARD H.
HARRIMAN
193
XII. THE AMERICAN RAILROAD
PROBLEM
211
BIBLIOGRAPHY
243
INDEX
247
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