Overview
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist LuciusBeebe once called the ""Mother of Railroads,"" was the brainchild of Baltimorecity planners who hoped to outstrip New York in the race for western trade,wealth, and populace. Although Baltimore lost the race, it gave New York a runfor its money early in the 19th century and certainly achieved manyfirsts: the first timetable in 1830, the first eight-wheel passenger coach in1831, and right-of-way for the first telegraph in 1844. In later decades, itwould be a pioneer in the introduction of electric locomotives, diesels, andair conditioning. Author of six earlier books about United States railroads,John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship andcolorful description which will appeal to the railroad buff and theprofessional historian, as well as to any reader who wishes to travel with the ""Motherof Railroads"" through an exciting period in United States history.
Full Product Details
Author: John F. Stover
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.481kg
ISBN: 9781557530660
ISBN 10: 1557530661
Pages: 436
Publication Date: 30 August 1987
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
With the sure hand of one who has devoted a lifetime of research to the study of railroads, the author guides us through a century and a half of B&O history. Locus With clarity of purpose and critical analysis, John Stover a history of the nation's first common carrier railway . . . . The story of technological change on the B&O is told with verve . . . from the 'Tom Thumb' to dieselization in the post-World War II years . . . . Scholars of the rail industry will be rewarded with new insights into expansion of the B&O in the Gilded Age, and its role in the 'merger mania' of the 1960's. --Keith L. Bryant Stover has crafted a book that easily supercedes Edward Hungerford's centennial history of the railroad and will long stand as the definitive work on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Journal of Southern History Public-relations-type works are ubiquitous, but this is the only scholarly account of a railroad that connected the East Coast and the Midwest. The Journal of American History A masterful book by one of the nation's premier transportation historians, Stover's history of the B&O deserves to be in every collection on railroads. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society . . . a well written, pleasant, and informative tour through the long history of the first railroad in the United States. Journal of Economic History --Locus
With the sure hand of one who has devoted a lifetime of research to the study of railroads, the author guides us through a century and a half of B&O history. --Locus (08/09/2018) A masterful book by one of the nation's premier transportation historians, Stover's history of the B&O deserves to be in every collection on railroads. --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (08/09/2018)
Author Information
John F. Stover has published many journal articles as well as nine books, including American Railroads, The Life and Decline of American Railroad, and History of the Illinois Central Railroad. He is a fellow in the society of American Historians and has been a member of the editorial advisory board of Railroad History since 1970. In 1983 the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society awarded him the Senior Achievement Award in Railroad History.
