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Author : Paul Stringham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Illinois Terminal, the Electric Years written by Paul Stringham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Schmitt
Publisher : R. Schmitt
ISBN 13 : 9780982660324
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Illinois Terminal written by Ronald Schmitt and published by R. Schmitt. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three different types of trains (steam, electric and diesel) from the Illinois Terminal railroad are examined through pictures and history--
Author : Illinois Terminal Railroad System
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)
Download or read book The Illinois Traction System, Illustrated written by Illinois Terminal Railroad System and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027993
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Railroads written by William D. Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various aspects of the industry’s development: technology, operations, cultural impact, the evolution of public policy regarding the industry, and the structural functioning of modern railroads. More than 500 alphabetical entries cover a myriad of subjects, including numerous entries profiling the principal companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals influencing the history of the rails. Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747789
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.
Author : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253067146
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Electric Indiana written by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only 90-mile remnant of this one great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state.
Author : Illinois. Public Utilities Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Illinois. Public Utilities Commission and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter A. Hansen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062381
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Author : David O. Whitten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 156750972X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Extractives, Manufacturing, and Services written by David O. Whitten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.
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Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055709383X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Studebaker and the Railroads - Volume 2 written by Jan Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studebaker and the Railroads is a history of the Studebaker Corporation and of the railroads that served it in and around the city of South Bend, Indiana. Both Studebaker and the railroads of northern Indiana have extensive and dramatic histories and there are many connections between the two. Studebaker lovers and railfans will equally enjoy the stories and facts reported.Divided into two volumes, Studebaker and the Railroads comprises over four hundred fifty pages and contains over three hundred fifty photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams.Volume 1 covers the Studebaker and the steam railroads that once decorated South Bend. Volume 2 covers the extensive electric railroad history of the area and includes a history of Studebaker's private in-plant railroad, the Chicago & South Bend, together with additional topics linking Studebaker and railroading. Both volumes feature detailed indexes. Volume 2 includes an extensive bibliography, numerous maps, and corporate history charts.
Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : William D. Middleton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The interurban era written by William D. Middleton and published by William D. Middleton. This book was released on 1961 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interurban era
Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Utility Corporations written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Illinois Commerce Commission
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Total Pages : 1246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Opinions and Orders written by Illinois Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019125
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
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Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transit Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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