Download or read book John W Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation. Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited “railroad fever” and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put “Mr. Lincoln’s Road” out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how—when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors—Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore’s moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads’ indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twenty-six-year reign.

Download or read book Address of John W Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Address of John W Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Co written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letter and Accompanying Documents from John W Garrett President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Address of John W Garrett President Made on the 8th of May 1870 written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remarks of John W Garrett President Made on September 8th 1869 written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Address of John W Garrett to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of Railway Meetings Held in Relation to the Baltimore Ohio Railroad and Its Extensions Branches and Connections written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letter and Accompanying Documents from John W Garrett President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to the Comptroller of Maryland written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Address of John W Garrett President written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reply of John W Garrett President of the Baltimore and Ohio R R Co to William H Vanderbilt President of the New York Central and Hudson River R R Co September 30 1881 written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Addresses to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Railway Conflict written by John Work Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The War Came by Train written by Daniel Carroll Toomey and published by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mary Elizabeth Garrett written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America.

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Download or read book Steam City written by David Schley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a “rail-road” that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking—an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. Steam City tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States. The B&O’s founders believed that their new line would remap American economic geography, but no one imagined that the railroad would also dramatically reshape the spaces of its terminal city. As railroad executives wrangled with city officials over their use of urban space, they formulated new ideas about the boundaries between public good and private profit. Ultimately, they reinvented the B&O as a private enterprise, unmoored to its home city. This bold reconception had implications not only for the people of Baltimore, but for the railroad industry as a whole. As David Schley shows here, privatizing the B&O helped set the stage for the rise of the corporation as a major force in the post-Civil War economy. ?Steam City examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad—which brought rapid communications, fossil fuels, and new modes of corporate organization to the city—changed how people worked, where they lived, even how they crossed the street. As Schley makes clear, we still live with the consequences of this spatial and economic order today.