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The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
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$35.00
By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.
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This 200—mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburgh 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 a...

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