The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation’s First Railroad, 1828-1853
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804726299 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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BAltimore and Ohio Railroad Mr. Dilts has created a seminal, readable history on the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Baltimore to the Ohio River at Wheeling, (W)Va 1828-1852, the Nineteenth Century's version of the race to the moon. Some of the contractors and politicians are ones you'll meet with today in the. "This book fills a great need for a detailed history on the building of" according to Cassandrus. This book fills a great need for a detailed history on the building of the great line west to the Ohio by the nation's first railroad. Finally, I get the correct story about my great great grandfather's death -- in the first American railroad accident to kill passengers.. Great book on the "Great Road". This book gave me great insight into the building of the early railroads and why the picked the routes they did.
Railroads, and certainly the B&O, epitomized progress, not only in the development and extension of the Western frontier but in the revelation that personal travel and the delivery of freight could be dramatically faster, better, and cheaper.The railroad deeply affected the development of Baltimore's port, industry, and urban geography, as well as its financial, educational, and cultural institutions. Its successful inauguration provided a spur to internal improvements throughout the United States. 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. George Peabody, Enoch Pratt, William Walters, and Johns Hopkins—the city's most prominent philanthropists—were involved with the B&O, some intimatel
And the impediment called forth construction schemes--of turnpikes, canals, then railroads--each favored in turn by the competing cities of Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore. A major social undertaking, celebrated by civic pomp as various sections opened, the B & O was a reified metaphor for the age's idea of Progress. The latter city's financiers of the 1820s settled on the newfangled iron horse to connect their entrep{"ot with the Ohio River valley, and here is a comprehensive account of the legendary B & O, which took 25 years to build across Maryland's rugged topography. Anchored in sober fact, adorned by 80 photos of people, bridges, and tunnels, this is a railroad history that can't be bested in its special arena. 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. Gilbert Taylor. Dilts recounts all a