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Corn Belt Route Time Tables
Author | : Chicago Great Western Railroad Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Chicago Great Western
Author | : Joe Piersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Railroad stations |
ISBN | : 9780965904094 |
The Chicago Great Western Railway
Author | : David J. Fiore |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738540481 |
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.
The Corn Belt Route
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Railroads in America |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780875800950 |
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.
Classic American Railroads
Author | : Mike Schafer |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 076031649X |
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.
The Iron Road in the Prairie State
Author | : Simon Cordery |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-01-20 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0253019125 |
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.
The Corn Belt
Author | : Oliver Edwin Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |