103 Years of Railroading
Author : New York Central Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1929*
Category : Railroads
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Author : New York Central Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1929*
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Carter, Charles Frederick
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1929*
Category :
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Author : John William Starr
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1501747797
"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 : New York Central Railroad Company
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Railroads
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Author : Joe Welsh
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release :
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9781616731151
An authoritative, lavishly illustrated history of Union Pacific's revolutionary passenger services from 1934 to the end of the railroad's passenger operations in 1971.
Author : Charles Frederick Carter
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Richard Balkwill
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780753415887
Examines trains and railway systems from all over the world, from the super-sleek bullet train of Japan to the remote mountain railways of Mexico. 6 yrs+
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Railroads
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Author : William D. Kalt
Publisher : Vtd Rail Pub.
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780971991545
A history of the railroad in Tucson, Arizona, covers the years of expansion in the late 19th century through the profitable early 20th until the decline of the 1950s, exploring both the passenger and freight industries, the men and women who worked for the railroads in Tucson, and how the railway affected the community.