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Rails to Penn State the Story of The Bellefonte Central Dust Jacket 2007
Rails to Penn State the Story of The Bellefonte Central By Michael Bezilla and Jack Rudnicki
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 2007
310 pages
"IT WAS THE ALL-AMERICAN SHORT LINE. The Bellefonte Central Railroad carried everyone from Penn State students to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Authors Michael Bezilla and Jack Rudnicki tell an engaging story by examining every aspect of the nineteen-mile-long railroad in the heart of Pennsylvania-colorful personal insights, squabbles for control of the line's board of directors, ill-fated expansions, competition with trucks, and most vexing of all, the headaches of doing business with a partner-the 11,000-route-mile Pennsylvania Railroad-that could become a haughty adversary in the blink of an eye. Thoroughly researched and crisply written, Rails to Penn State is an excellent standard against which short-line railroad histories should be measured."
List of Maps iv
List of Tables and Passenger Train Schedules v
Prefacevii
Acknowledgmentsix
CHAPTER ONEThe Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle Railroad1
CHAPTER Two BRB&BE Reorganized: The Bellefonte Central33
CHAPTER THREE Breaking the PRR Monopoly63
CHAPTER FOUR Penn State Lifeline94
CHAPTER FIVEIn the Shadow of the Evil Empire117
CHAPTER SIXStockholder Uprising147
CHAPTER SEVEN Creating "the Gyp"175
CHAPTER EIGHT Lime, Limestone, and POTUS197
CHAPTER NINE Trucks and Trouble222
CHAPTER TENThe Kyle Agreement247
EPILOGUE270
Notes on the Sources275
APPENDIX A Railway Operating Income, 1892-1982292
APPENDIX B Total Freight Tonnage, 1892-1982295
APPENDIX C Lime and Limestone Tonnage, 1900-1982298
APPENDIX D Passenger Traffic, 1892-1964301
APPENDIX E Locomotive Roster, 1892-1982302
Index304
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