The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War ... With 16 Illustrations and 8 Maps. [An Account of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.].
Author: Festus Paul SUMMERS
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Published: 1939
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Author: Festus Paul SUMMERS
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Published: 1939
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Festus Paul Summers
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Baltimore & Ohio, like its competitors, the Pennsylvania Central, the New York and Erie, and the New York Central, profitted from the traffic windfall of the storm years; but the company did not enjoy the full fruits of war prosperity because a large part of its main line lay on debatable ground. Advance and retreat in the contest for control furnish sidelights on the conduct of the war."--Preface.
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 842
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James D. Dilts
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996-10-01
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780804726290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
Author: William Prescott Smith
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John T. King
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9781363232215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Edward Hungerford
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Published: 1928
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathleen Waters Sander
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1421422212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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.
Author: John F. Stover
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781557530660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad in America. As an economic historian, Stover tells the history of the B & O from its beginnings in 1928, and through the dark times of this country's economic growth and downswings. He examines the programs undertaken by the company throughout its history to improve its lines, equipment, and service.
Author: John T. [From Old Catalog] King
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781341510045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.