Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893: A Study of Businessmen

by Julius Grodinsky

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512802306
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1962
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
	Bibliographical Note	vii
	Abbreviations used in Footnotes	xi
	Abbreviations of Railroads	xiii
	Dramatis Personae (1869-1893)	xv
I	Introduction	1
II	Fight for Position	15
III	Reverses and Failures	40
IV	Scott vs. Huntington	56
V	Gould vs. Perkins--The Battle at the Omaha Gateway	70
VI	Gould, Nickerson and Villard--The Fight for the Eastern Colorado Gateways	88
VII	Competition and Monopoly	104
VIII	Expansion 1879-1883--Northwest	122
IX	Expansion 1879-1883--Central	148
X	Expansion 1879-1883--Southwest	162
XI	Financing the Expansion 1879-1883	178
XII	The Boom Bursts	202
XIII	The Fight for Traffic	226
XIV	The Fight for Traffic--Transcontinental	258
XV	Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887--Central West	270
XVI	Expansion Program Renewed, 1886-1887--Northwest and Southwest	289
XVII	Ruinous Competition	312
XVIII	Stabilization by Industry-wide Action--Interstate Commerce Railway Association	338
XIX	Stabilization by Industry-wide Action--Western Traffic Association	354
XX	Stabilization by Corporate Action	365
XXI	Final 19th Century Transcontinental Building Program	388
XXII	Profit and Loss	401
XXIII	Conclusion	421
	Index	431