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Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747797
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis "Follow the Flag" by : H. Roger Grant

Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 305 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.

"Follow the Flag"

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747789
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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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 472 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.

Wabash

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Publisher : Heimburger House Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780911581027
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Wabash by : Donald J. Heimburger

Download or read book Wabash written by Donald J. Heimburger and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wabash Railroad ran through the Heart of America with nearly 2,500 miles of track from Buffalo, New York, to Kansas City and Omaha, serving such towns as Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. Its beautiful steam locomotives included the Class J 4-6-2s, Class L 2-10-2s, Class O 4-8-4s and Class P 4-6-4 steam types, and diesels such as the F-7As, FAs, E-7s, E-8s and PAs. Wabash passenger trains included the City of St. Louis, City of Kansas City, Blue Bird, Banner Blue and the very famous Wabash Cannonball.

Railroading on the Wabash Fourth Distirct

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ISBN 13 : 9780615521480
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Railroading on the Wabash Fourth Distirct by : Victor Allen Baird

Download or read book Railroading on the Wabash Fourth Distirct written by Victor Allen Baird and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built as the Wabash Railroad's "Chicago Extension" and an integral part of the shortest railroad between Detroit and Chicago, the Fourth District through Northwest Ohio and Northern Indiana has a colorful history. It was also the first Wabash District dieselized (1950) and home of the last mixed train in Indiana (1962). In addition to an illustrated, researched history, dating back to 1891, Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District tells the story in the words of railroaders that worked the line and folks who remember it. This 320 page hardcover book includes hundreds of photographs, maps, illustrations (some color), diagrams, timetables, track charts, a grade profile, color section, end notes, bibliography and index. As a bonus, the postscript chapter provides an up-date on what happened to the railroad after the 1964 Wabash lease to Norfolk & Western. This includes operations and preservation efforts into the Norfolk Southern era. Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District comes just in time to mark the one hundred twentieth anniversary of the official opening of this line in 1893.

Classic American Railroads

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Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 076031649X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Classic American Railroads by : Mike Schafer

Download or read book Classic American Railroads written by Mike Schafer and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book picks up where the previous two Classic American titles left off, focusing on the golden age of American railroading from 1945 to the early 1970s. It extends to the present day where applicable, providing a colorful look at locomotives, passenger and freight operations, development, and, in some cases, demise. Full color.

Railroads and the American People

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006333
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Railroads and the American People by : H. Roger Grant

Download or read book Railroads and the American People written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads and the American People is a sparkling paean to American railroading by one of its finest historians.

Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis

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ISBN 13 : 9781681062891
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Book Synopsis Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis by : Molly Butterworth

Download or read book Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis written by Molly Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle between St. Louis and Chicago to be the Midwest's leading city long predates the one between the Cardinals and the Cubs. Chicago won the fight to be considered part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad, and the Gateway City's delay in building a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River kept St. Louis in second place railroad service in the Midwest. But while Chicago had the Pullman Car Company, St. Louis featured more of the most important manufacturers in the rail industry, including American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company. St. Louis was dotted with historic rail structures ranging from its grand Union Station to depots built just after the Civil War, and a number of its suburbs were born of rail lines serving the area, with streets that still wear the names of the railroads they paralleled. In Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis, you have a ticket to hop aboard and travel across nearly two centuries through what the city built, operated, and preserved for the railroad. Hear the stories of the great-grandfathers who worked the rails, or take a walk down memory lane and a streetcar ride down to Gaslight Square. Local author and locomotive enthusiast Molly Butterworth carefully catalogues the history and significance of St. Louis' connection to its railroad days. Through the years, many of the railroad stations and streetcar stops have gone by the wayside, but their stories have lived on. Read about the ones you can still go enjoy, included in the many wonderful secrets shared among the pages of Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis.

Ghost Railroads of Indiana

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334831
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghost Railroads of Indiana by : Elmer Griffith Sulzer

Download or read book Ghost Railroads of Indiana written by Elmer Griffith Sulzer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the history of railroad closings and their impact on the railroad traffic running from the industrial North and East to the agricultural South and West.

Hoosiers and the American Story

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Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871953633
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis Hoosiers and the American Story by : Madison, James H.

Download or read book Hoosiers and the American Story written by Madison, James H. and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

Iowa's Railroads

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ISBN 13 : 9780253314253
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Iowa's Railroads by : H. Roger Grant

Download or read book Iowa's Railroads written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich photographic record of Iowa's railroad history

Rails Across the Mississippi

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026805
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Rails Across the Mississippi by : Robert Wendell Jackson

Download or read book Rails Across the Mississippi written by Robert Wendell Jackson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Publisher : London, McClelland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway by : Harold Adams Innis

Download or read book A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway written by Harold Adams Innis and published by London, McClelland. This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twilight Rails

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665621
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Twilight Rails written by H. Roger Grant and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the start of the twentieth century railroads crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still those who believed that the railroad network in the United States was far from complete. Residents of small towns lacking rail access lobbied hard for steam and electric roads to serve their communities, and investors eagerly started new ventures that would fill the gaps in the railway map. While some of these roads enjoyed a degree of success, most of them were financial flops even before the rise of the highway system made them obsolete.In Twilight Rails, H. Roger Grant—one of the leading railroad historians working today—documents the stories of eight Midwestern carriers that appeared at the end of the railroad building craze. When historians have reflected on these “twilight” carriers, they have suggested that they were relevant only as examples of unwise business ventures. Grant finds that even the weakest railroads were important to the communities they served; the arrival of the railroad was cause for great celebration as residents were finally connected to the outside world. A railroad’s construction pumped money into local economies, farmers and manufacturers gained access to better markets, and the excitement generated by a new line often increased land values and inspired expansion of local businesses. Even the least financially successful carriers, Grant argues, managed to significantly improve their local economies.This thorough and highly accessible history provides a fascinating look at the motivations, accomplishments, and failures of the twilight carriers, granting a new breath of life to this neglected aspect of American railway history.

History of the Illinois Central Railroad

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Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis History of the Illinois Central Railroad by : John F. Stover

Download or read book History of the Illinois Central Railroad written by John F. Stover and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Mighty Fine Road

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304989X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis A Mighty Fine Road by : H. Roger Grant

Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island's final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the "Mighty Fine Road" has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad.

The North Western

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ISBN 13 : 9780875802145
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The North Western written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the Chicago & North Western Railway system from its beginnings in 1848 until its sale to the Union Pacific, exploring the growth of the company and its role in shaping the West.

Guide to North American Steam Locomotives

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Publisher : Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Books
ISBN 13 : 9780890242063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Guide to North American Steam Locomotives written by and published by Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and development of steam power since 1900, including railroad-by-railroad histories and rosters.