It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Kathleen Waters Sander
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Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its...
John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Kathleen Waters Sander is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad aloud.
John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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