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Sand Patch Clash of Titans Cumberland to Connellsville & branches 1837-1993 HC
Sand Patch Cumberland to Connellsville and branches 1837-1993 Clash of Titans
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad
By Charles S. Roberts
Hard Cover
Copyright 1993
223 Pages
Map of The Country Between the Cumberland and the Ohio included
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Of Myths and Men 8
2Coal, Coke, Iron and Steel 25
3 The Narrows 37
4 The Rise 54
5 The Summit 69
6 The Fall 84
7 The Source 104
8 The Slope 114
9 The Canyon 132
10 The Headwaters 146
11The Sheepskin 160
12 Railroads That Never Were 174
Form 6 184
13Passage in Color 193
14Operations 209
15Thoughts 213
Employee Timetables 217
Bibliography 221
Index 222
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Is this declaration a pearl of wisdom or a shibboleth. the historian proclaims in order to justify his existence and put a veneer of social respectability on a work he really began just to satisfy his own curiosity? Certainly the statement implies that if you do read history, you can predict the future.
Ah, the future. Here are some thoughts about the future:
"For I diet into the future,
far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the World,
and all that wonder that would be."
Thus Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). This phrase, of course, is extracted from a rather long pre, the full reading of which has led your writer to wonder just what stimulants he used ... he saw "the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails." Still, the heavens did fill with commerce and maybe he was on to something. After all, his life span was such that he witnessed the Industrial Revolution in full sway, surely one of the most pivotal developments in human history.
Did Edmund Burke (1729-1797) touch on this issue? He commented on just about everything else and, to be sure, he did not miss this one:
"You can never plan the future by the past."
No stimulants here. One must assume he had no use for historians or, for that matter, anyone else. However, he observed the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and the birth of the United States. Neither event was predicted or predictable.
Let us move to 1960. A gentleman named David Krotman, a legend in his field and patient listener to grand publishing plans being presented by your writer, erupted when the forecast was shown and snarled:
"Nobody can predict the future. WE ARE ALL GUESSING."
Parenthetically, those readers personally acquainted with your writer and who have suffered through his pronouncements on a Burkenian variety of subjects, will instantly recognize that "we are all guessing" line. We mention this to give proper credit and point out that at least one person has learned something from history.
What does all this have to do with this particular book? It is to make this point. We will be reviewing decisions and actions taken by men and institutions in a very dynamic and rapidly evolving situation beset with unpredictable developments. They were guessing. It will be easy for the reader to sneer at their stum. One should really marvel at their accomplishments.
The founding and development of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was a dramatic episode in the history of the United States and, indeed, the World.
This book is a story of defeat. They lost. They attempted to carry out grand plans from a subordinate position, a noble but impossible goal. Yet by the mere act of trying they triggered and galvanized a virtual explosion of energy that changed history.
But, first, to tell their story we must dispose of myths that, perhaps inevitably, have fogged the glass through which we view the past. So the first chapter in this book is probably the most important.
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