Name: Branch Line Empires: The Pennsylvania and the new York Central Railroads (Railroads Past and Present) (en Inglés)
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Author: Bezilla, Michael ; Gette, Luther
ISBN: 9780253029584

portada Branch Line Empires: The Pennsylvania and the new York Central Railroads (Railroads Past and Present) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Michael Bezilla

Luther Gette

Editorial

Indiana University Press

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

344

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Peso

0.69 kg.

ISBN13

9780253029584

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa
Trenes y ferrocarriles

Branch Line Empires: The Pennsylvania and the new York Central Railroads (Railroads Past and Present) (en Inglés)

Michael Bezilla (Autor) · Luther Gette (Autor) · Indiana University Press · Tapa Dura

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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 19th 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; 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.