Book ID: CBB950748893

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (2017)

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Sander, Kathleen Waters (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 403
Language: English

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. (Publisher)

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Review Grant, Roger H. (Fall-Winter 2017) Review of "John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad". Railroad History (pp. 101-103). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hofsommer, Don L.
Grant, H. Roger
David Schley
Rhodes, Joel P.
Thomas, Larry
Dwight Jones
Concepts
Land transportation
Railroads
Management; administration
Business history
Locomotives, steam
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Cape Girardeau, MO
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Missouri (U.S.)
Canada
Institutions
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Penn Central Transportation Company
BNSF Railway
Railroad Development Corporation
B & O Railroad Museum
Pennsylvania Railroad
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