Author: Pennsylvania RailroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Charter and Supplements of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Author: Pennsylvania RailroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
The Legislative Record: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Legislature
Author: Pennsylvania. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Legislative Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of ...
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott...
Author: Samuel Richey KammPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Index to the Library of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Pennsylvania State Reports
Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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.