Book Description
"A history of the development of Chicago as a railroad hub, from its earliest days to the present, illustrated with color and black and white photographs, maps, and railroad memorabilia"--
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0760346038
"A history of the development of Chicago as a railroad hub, from its earliest days to the present, illustrated with color and black and white photographs, maps, and railroad memorabilia"--
Author : Chicago, Millington and western railway company
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Tom Murray
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release :
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781616731540
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.
Author : Cynthia L. Ogorek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738594199
Starting in 1901 as a three-mile-long trolley line in East Chicago, Indiana, the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad expanded in 1908 to connect South Bend, Indiana, with Chicago, Illinois. Once a treasure in the Sam Insull utilities empire, today it is the only functioning electric interurban in the United States. From a world-class city through rolling agricultural acres, from steel mills through a national lakeshore, some 200 vintage photographs illustrate the unique view of the Calumet region that South Shore passengers have traditionally enjoyed. Images of rolling stock, passenger depots, excursion destinations, and historic sites along the way combine to reveal the century-long story of the railroad and its 90-mile corridor.
Author : George Ellsworth Hooker
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Harold Melvin Mayer
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : William K. Ackerman
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : Mike Danneman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398103225
Stunning original photographs of railways around Chicago, offers highlights of the exciting Midwestern city.
Author : Civic Federation of Chicago
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Street-railroads
ISBN :
Author : John W. Cary
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Railroads
ISBN :