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This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA www.iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2010 by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalogingin -Publication Data Harwood, Herbert H. The railroad that never was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. p. cm. — (Railroads past and present) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35548-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. South Pennsylvania Railroad. 2. Railroads— Design and construction. I. Title. TF25.S67H392 2010 385.09748—dc22 2010010147 1 2 3 4 5 15 14 13 12 11 10 To Paul J. Westhaeffer (1916–93) Whose friendship and whose unfulfilled hope to complete his own South Pennsylvania history directly inspired this work ...

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