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Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Corn Belt Route written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Corn Belt Route Time Tables written by Chicago Great Western Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Piersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965904094
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Chicago Great Western written by Joe Piersen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Chicago Great Western Railway Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Fiore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738540481
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Great Western Railway written by David J. Fiore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) was a Midwestern line that operated in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska for 83 years. This book provides nostalgic images and photographs of the operations, employees, locomotives, and stations of a little railroad that is now only a memory.
Author : John C. Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Making the Corn Belt written by John C. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Railroads in America
ISBN 13 : 9780875800950
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Corn Belt Route written by H. Roger Grant and published by Railroads in America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B. Stickney, proved to be exceptionally innovative as it developed new ways to compete with larger railroads. Pitted against tough, determined competitors, the CGW during its eighty-five years made innovations that changed the history of American transportation. Among the pioneering activities for which the Great Western is remembered are the early use of internal combustion equipment, the hauling of truck trailers atop flatcars ("piggy-backs"), and the use of extremely long freight trains. Indeed, much of the railroad's past supports the notion that smaller, less-established carriers like the CGW frequently stimulated changes in industry thinking and practices. In spite of its innovations, the path of the Great Western, sometimes called the "Great Weedy," did not always run smoothly. In the 1930s, John W. Barriger III quipped, "The Chicago Great Western is a mountain railroad in a prairie country serving a traffic vacuum." Such a negative assessment was not uncommon for this Granger pike, which in fact climbed some steep grades and owned a long tunnel. And while the road did not operate in a "traffic vacuum," its competitors were well entrenched and robust. By 1903, the CGW served the strategic gateways of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Joseph, and Omaha. Between Chicago and the Twin Cities alone, the company competed with six other roads. When the Chicago & North Western acquired the Great Western in 1968, one of America's most imaginative railroads disappeared. The Corn Belt Route is the first scholarly treatment of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, a company that has long intrigued the railfan, whether collector, modeler, photographer, or historian. Richly illustrated, this book tells the lively story of one of the great small railroads that once served the Midwest.
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.
Author : Mike Schafer
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 076031649X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
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.
Author : Oliver Edwin Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Corn Belt written by Oliver Edwin Baker and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Fiore Sr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439616833
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Great Western Railway written by David J. Fiore Sr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Track the history of the Chicago Great Western Railway through vintage images in this volume authored by David J. Fiore Sr. The Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) was a Midwestern line that operated in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska. Although this territory was served by much larger systems, the CGW was able to retain its share of passenger and freight business for 83 years through aggressive management, dedicated employees, innovations, and efficient operations. By the early 1960s, however, the growth of the trucking industry and airlines had taken away a substantial amount of the business previously handled by railroads. The CGW would not survive as operating costs increased while revenues declined. The only solution was to consolidate with another railroad, and a favorable agreement was reached with the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW). At 12:01 a.m. Monday, July 1, 1968, the CGW ceased to exist, as it became part of the C&NW. Since that time, much of the system has been abandoned, and today only a few segments of former CGW trackage remain in service. This book provides nostalgic images and photographs of the operations, employees, locomotives, and stations of a little railroad that is now only a memory.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747797
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
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.
Author : Lloyd E. Stagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878887672
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Chicago Great Western, in Color written by Lloyd E. Stagner and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395562345
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Corn Belt Harvest written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs describe the United States Corn Belt region and its harvest season.
Author : Tom Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616731540
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Chicago & North Western Railway written by Tom Murray and published by . This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nations oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic link between eastern railroads and the West. Author Tom Murray traces the railroads expansion as it extended secondary lines throughout the Midwest. He also explores C&NWs joint ownership of UP passenger trains and describes how the railroad answered challenges from regional rivals with the "400" series of passenger trains. As fascinating as the story are the hundreds of accompanying illustrations--historical photographs, archival images, route maps, and period print ads. The result is an entertaining and informative history of an iconic Midwestern railroad--a narrative that spans the decades from the 1850s to the 1990s and takes in steam and diesel motive power, freight and passenger operations, and all the key characters, events, and deals that figured in the Chicago & North Westerns rise and eventual demise.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Illinois Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth C. Gardner Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491772840
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Travels on the Road to America written by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Cockburn, the main character in the novel The Song Is Ended, is eight years older. He buys a 1970 Honda CB750, Candy Ruby Red, and sets off on a trip from North Dakota to New Orleans and back. He meets bikers, waitresses, gas station attendants, preachers, pimps, prostitutes and policemen, the common people of America, as well seeing some places significant in the cultural history of the United States. More importantly, he discovers a theme over one hundred and thirty years old that, if adopted, could enhance the moral fiber of American life.
