John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio by Kathleen Waters Sander HARDBACK

Johns Hopkins University Press

John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadAuthor(s): Kathleen Waters Sander\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421422206, 978-1421422206\nSynopsis\nChartered in 1827 as the country's first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation's great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B's beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B's success ignited \""railroad fever\"" and helped to catapult railroading to America's most influential industry in the nineteenth century. .