Download or read book The Growth and Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by Howard Ward Schotter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Growth and Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by Howard Ward Schotter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Growth and Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by H. W. Schotter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 1846 1946 written by George Heckman Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Growth and development of the Pennsylavania railroad company written by H.W. Schotter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company with Plan of Organization Portraits of Officials and Biographical Sketches written by William Bender Wilson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... the area covered by its municipality are to be found all the comfort, culture and progressiveness of the most favored spots on this continent. Its growth was slow. In 1840, although it had felt the influence of the locomotive "Robert Ralston," its population did not number 1000; in 1860 it increased to 5664; in 1870 to 16,023; and now, in 1898, it boasts a population of 35,000. Improvements came apparently late, but not before it was prepared to receive them. The development was slow, but permanent, and is so because the pluck and energy necessary to reduce the wilderness was brought to its doors, and produced a superior citizenship morally, intellectually and physically, and one intense in its practicability. In 1855 the portion of the road from Sunbury to Milton was completed, opening the whole line of forty miles from Sunbury to Williamsport. Early in 1856, the financial outlook for the Sunbury and Erie Railroad being very discouraging and the project threatened with disastrous failure, its friends turned to Samuel Vaughan Merrick as the one man who could retrieve its affairs. Mr. Merrick had been the first President ot the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and was one of the most prominent and most public-spirited citizens of Philadelphia. In the crisis, those interested in the success of the road called upon him to accept the Presidency of the Company. This tender would have been declined but for the receipt of the following letter from twenty-one of the leading citizens of Philadelphia: "Ph1ladelph1a, February 21, 1856. "To Samuel V. Merrick, Esq. "Dear Sir: We have learned that the Presidency of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company has been tendered to you under such circumstances as render it reasonably certain that your character...
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad written by Edwin P. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of America's greatest transportation system told principally in pictures. Some 330 reproductions show rare prints and photographs of early locomotives, equipment and bridges, old posters, broadsides and tickets, as well as later developments.
Download or read book History of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and Representative Employes written by Railroad Historical Company and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate History of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad A Brief Look in Time written by Eugene Weiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Branch Line Empires written by Michael Bezilla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
