The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917

by Albert J. Churella

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224348X
• ISBN13: 9780812243482
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 968 Pages
• Weight: 6.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 8.8" x 11.3"