| The Attempt at a Transportation Empire in New England: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 1872-1913
(1969)
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| Book Details |
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| Genre |
NYNH&H RR |
| Publication Date |
1969 |
| Publisher |
University of Notre Dame |
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| Personal Details |
| In Collection |
No |
| Index |
240 |
| Read It |
No |
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| Product Details |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
Yes |
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| Notes |
Doctoral dissertation. "This analyzes the factors that impelled the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad’s management initially to enlarge the company’s small system into a Southern New England railway monopoly during the period 1889 to 1898, and later, between 1904 and 1913 to expand this road into a New England transportation empire.
"Ironically, after three decades of unplanned acquisitions to contain threatened competition. President Mellen’s use of the company’s seemingly limitless resources . . . reduced the corporation to near-insolvency by mid-1913".
"It is not an overstatement to assert that, had half the funds spent acquiring interurban and street railways been used for electrifying the New Haven system’s main and major branch lines, the competitive threat from this source would have been contained." (from the abstract)
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