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Author : Paul Stringham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015017992358
Author : Ronald Schmitt
Publisher : R. Schmitt
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0982660324
Three different types of trains (steam, electric and diesel) from the Illinois Terminal railroad are examined through pictures and history--
Author : William D. Middleton,RICK MORGAN,Roberta L. Diehl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253027993
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 : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253067142
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 : David O. Whitten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781567509724
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.
Author : Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253062376
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 : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557093830
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
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The interurban era
Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : UOM:39015052307728
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253019127
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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1676 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Holding companies
ISBN : MINN:31951002018307P
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045427973
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : LOC:00220928445
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : UCAL:B2911163
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Corporations
ISBN : SRLF:A0000092734
