TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - railroad industry
KW - Irish Americans
KW - capitalists
KW - sex workers
KW - John Edgar Thomson (1808-74)
KW - Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)
KW - priests
AU - Jesse Taylor Croft
AB - Depicts the largest earth-moving project of the day: the building by the Irish of the Pennsylvania Railroad “through the verdant Appalachians and lush, rugged valleys” of Western Pennsylvania.  “John Carlysle battles ruthless thugs hired by politicians,” says the back cover, “and finds himself between the woman he loves and his burgeoning railroad empire.”
C1 - 1852-5
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Blair County; Tyrone; Cambria County; Johnstown; Gallitzin
C4 - Adventure; Historical; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Depicts the largest earth-moving project of the day: the building by the Irish of the Pennsylvania Railroad “through the verdant Appalachians and lush, rugged valleys” of Western Pennsylvania.  “John Carlysle battles ruthless thugs hired by politicians,” says the back cover, “and finds himself between the woman he loves and his burgeoning railroad empire.”
PB - Warner Books, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1988
RN - Jesse Taylor Croft is an author.
EP - 375 p.
TI - The Trainmasters
ER -