Robert J. Kapsch, PhD, Hon. AIA, ASCE, spent fifteen years as the Chief of Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, the U.S. government's premier documentation program, and has served as project engineer for many historic restoration and rehabilitation projects along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and other parks. He is the author of several books and articles on historic architecture and engineering, including The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West; Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina and CANALS, the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook in Architecture, Design and Engineering. He and his wife, Perry, live on a farm in Poolesville, Maryland, along with their three dogs, three horses, four donkeys and other assorted animals.
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"Over the Alleghenies: Early Canals and Railroads in Pennsylvania is an insightful book about one of Pennsylvania's greatest public works efforts. Kapsch weaves together the era's politics, engineering, financing, and boosterism to reveal the history of nineteenth-century transportation in Pennsylvania. Over the Alleghenies is extremely well researched, crisply written, and richly illustrated, and fits nicely into the Kapsch's "ever-growing" body of work on transportation systems."Sam Tamburro, Historian, National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office "Robert Kapsch has done it again, with yet another fine book describing and explaining America's nineteenth century transportation systems. Over the Alleghenies is a lavishly illustrated, thoroughly researched, and clearly written essay that tells the complex story of Pennsylvania's publically-funded response to New York's Erie Canal." Patrick Martin, Professor of Archaeology and Department Chair, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University