Login
or
Register
Home
»
Trains Magazine
»
Forums
»
General Discussion
»
Krupp and American Railroads
Edit post
Edit your reply below.
Post Body
Enter your post below.
[quote user="TimChgo9"]<p>My question is, and still remains, if the fact that Krupp Steel supplied rails, tires, and other such things to US and Canadian railroads, how come I cannot find any reference to that in US histories, but I can in European books on US railways. My brother did tell me, that in going through a book on US railroads, that was printed in England, he did note that the book mentions the sales of Krupp equipment to U.S. railroads.... The book didn't detail much, but it was mentioned. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Because European authors, when they think about such matters at all, often have another agenda, to reassure themselves that the economic success of the U.S. was a sort of accident of nature and/or unintended consequence of European commercial helpfulness, while U.S. authors, when they think about such matters, often have another agenda, to reinforce the Horatio Alger mythology of American exceptionalism and independence. You got me why so many people are so insecure. </p><p>But I will guarantee you that 98% of the authors of what you can find on the market today published on the history of railroads in the U.S. never even knew such a question existed. That's because their output is not history at all, nor anything that any actual historian would recognize as such, only a collection of regurgitated and incomplete facts and unverified anecdote by people unarmed with education, training, or critical thinking skills. And of the railroad supply industry, to say nothing of railroad engineering or railroad business, these people apparently have no time to spare from their churning out of scrapbooks monumentalizing their nostalgia and ego. It's not an anti-German bias among U.S. rail authors; it's their apathy toward the fundamentals of the business of railroading. Try and find more than 1% of the flood of flossy titles on the bookshelf that tell you anything new about any particular railroad or the railroad industry. </p><p>175,000 tons in 1874 would account for about 10-15% of the rail used in the U.S. that year. </p><p>S. Hadid </p>
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag
Update Reply
Join our Community!
Our community is
FREE
to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.
Login »
Register »
Search the Community
Newsletter Sign-Up
By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our
privacy policy
More great sites from Kalmbach Media
Terms Of Use
|
Privacy Policy
|
Copyright Policy