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| Author | : Graydon M. Meints |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2011-09-09 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0253223598 |
Railroads have played a major role in transportation, logistics and development in the state of Indiana. A perfect resource for railroad enthusiasts or students of Indiana history, Indiana Railroad Lines provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the railroad companies that operated in the state between 1838 and 1999 and the counties and towns they served. This volume provides the dates of the contraction, purchase, sale, lease and abandonment of the various railroad lines and is complete with charts and maps that provide information on the development and decline of railroads in the state.
| Author | : Elmer Griffith Sulzer |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780253334831 |
Details the history of railroad closings and their impact on the railroad traffic running from the industrial North and East to the agricultural South and West.
| Author | : Christopher Rund |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0253346924 |
"Christopher Rund chronicles the development of the Indiana Rail Road Company from its origins of part of America's first land grant railroad - the Illinois Central - through the political and financial juggling required by entrepreneur Tom Hoback to purhcase the line when it fell into disrepair. The company was reborn as a robust, profitable carrier and has become a new model for America's regional railroads."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : William J. Watt |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780253337085 |
Photographs, advertising and promotional materials, and detailed maps resurrect its speedy passenger trains and heavy-tonnage freights, and show how it earned its slogan: "The Standard Railroad of the World.""--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Jeffrey Darbee |
| Publisher | : Railroads Past and Present |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253025227 |
"In an era dominated by huge railroad corporations, Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads reveals the important role two small railroad companies had on development and progress in the Hoosier State. After Indianapolis was founded in 1821, early settlers struggled to move people was only a little over 14 miles. Though small in size, the Union and the Belt had an outsized impact, both on the city's rail network and on the city itself. It played an important role both in maximizing the efficiency and value of the city's railroad freight and passenger services and in helping to shape the urban form of Indianapolis in ways that remain visible today."--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Graydon M. Meints |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : 9781611863000 |
The Lomax years, 1849-1866 -- The Edgerton years, 1866-1873 -- The completion to Petoskey, 1869-73 -- The Continental Improvement Company -- The Hughart years, part 1, 1874-1883 -- The Hughart years, part 2, 1884-1895 -- The Pennsylvania years, 1896-1920 -- Epilogue
| Author | : Craig Sanders |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2003-06-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780253342164 |
The passenger train has long held a special place in the imagination of Americans, and Indiana was once a bustling passenger train crossroads. Limiteds, Locals, and Expresses in Indiana, 1838–1971 brings to life the countless locals, accommodation trains, and secondary expresses that Hoosiers patronized during the Golden Age of the passenger train. Craig Sanders gives us a comprehensive history of intercity passenger service in Indiana, from the time railroads began to develop in the state in the mid-19th century through May 1, 1971, when Amtrak began operations. Each chapter summarizes the history and development of one railroad, discusses the factors that shaped that railroad's passenger service—such as prolonged financial difficulties, competition, and the influence of a strong leader—and concludes with a detailed account of its passenger operations in Indiana. Sixteen maps, 87 photographs, and other evocative illustrations supplement Sanders's text.
| Author | : Richard C. Carpenter |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801880780 |
Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record of a time when passenger trains still made stops in every town and freight trains carried the bulk of the nation's cargo. Drawn at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, the maps include main and branch passenger and freight lines, former steam locomotive and manual signal tower stations, towns that functioned as crew change points, track pans, coaling stations, and a variety of indexes of railroad features. Carpenter is a longtime observer and collector of railroad history. This is the first volume in a series that eventually will provide the first comprehensive atlas of the U.S. post-World War II railroad system. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
| Author | : H. Roger Grant |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2012-10-17 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0253006333 |
Railroads and the American People is a sparkling paean to American railroading by one of its finest historians.
| Author | : Peter A. Hansen |
| Publisher | : Railroads Past and Present |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2022-08-09 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780253062369 |
Crossroads of a Continent: The Missouri Railroad 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.
