Author: David R. SweetlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878887078
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment
Author: David R. SweetlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878887078
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: United States. Bureau of CustomsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. ChurellaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"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.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Merchant Vessels of the United States...
Author: United States. Coast GuardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Author: Richard C. CarpenterPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train.
Transportation Lines on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastwise shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Progress of the Work During the Fiscal Year Ending with ...
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Porto Rico Reports
Author: Puerto Rico. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description