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John Moody. The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
Table of Contents
THE RAILROAD BUILDERS
CHAPTER I. A CENTURY OF RAILROAD BUILDING
CHAPTER II. THE COMMODORE AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL
CHAPTER III. THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM
CHAPTER IV. THE ERIE RAILROAD
CHAPTER V. CROSSING THE APPALACHIAN RANGE
CHAPTER VI. LINKING THE OCEANS
CHAPTER VII. PENETRATING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
CHAPTER VIII. BUILDING ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL
CHAPTER IX. THE GROWTH OF THE HILL LINES
CHAPTER X. THE RAILROAD SYSTEM OF THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XI. THE LIFE WORK OF EDWARD H. HARRIMAN
CHAPTER XII. THE AMERICAN RAILROAD PROBLEM
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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John Moody
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad was originally constructed with inclined planes worked by stationary engines near each terminus, the inclinations being one foot in eighteen. The rail used was a flat bar laid upon longitudinal sills. This type of rail came into general use at this period and continued in use in parts of the country even as late as the Civil War.
The roads that now make up the New York Central were built piecemeal from 1831 to 1853; and the organization of this company in the latter year, to consolidate eleven independent roads extending from Albany to Buffalo, finally put an end to the long debate between canals and railroads. The founding of this company definitely meant that transportation in the United States henceforth would follow the steel route and not the water ditch and the towpath. Canals might indeed linger for a time as feeders, even, as in the case of the Erie and a few others, as more or less important transportation routes, but every one now realized that the railroad was to be the great agency which would give plausibility to the industrial organization of the United States and develop its great territory.
