The Wreck of the Penn Central New Beginnings Especially in the recent past

Especially in the recent past

Publisher: Ileana Johnson Paugh

is President of Ocean Exploration Trust

ISBN13: 9781596298743

The Wreck of the Penn Central New Beginnings Especially in the recent pastIt took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest