[PDF.24zy] The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853

The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853

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 | #2410144 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  1993-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.25 x1.56 x7.30l,2.88 | File type: PDF | 472 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| 2017|By Reed H. Stuve|This is a good book that shows the early struggles and successes that came with the beginning of railroads in this country. The complicated financial and political manuvering that went on behind the scenes. It is more focused on the planning and political side, rather than the operational and experimental aspects. The period maps are good, however, don|From Booklist|After independence, the Appalachian Mountains just as imposingly barred the way of infant capitalism as they had, in the colonial era, formed political limits. And the impediment called forth constru

This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to railyway history but also to the broader history of the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

There was no precedent for the building of the B&O. The construction of the 380-mile line from Baltimore to the Ohio River over a p...

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