The Great Wabash The Pioneer Railway Of The West
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The Great Wabash The Pioneer Railway Of The West
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Author : Albert Adams Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The Great Wabash The Pioneer Railway Of The West written by Albert Adams Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Indiana categories.
Follow The Flag
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Author : H. Roger Grant
language : en
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Follow The Flag written by H. Roger Grant and has been published by Northern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Transportation categories.
"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.
Great Western Railway Of Canada
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Author : David R.P. Guay
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2015-12-05
Great Western Railway Of Canada written by David R.P. Guay and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-05 with Transportation categories.
It was one of the great railways that opened up Canada, and played a huge role in the development of Hamilton, the site of its head offices. Yet the rise and fall of the Great Western Railway has been almost lost to memory. David R.P. Guay provides the authoritative book of a great Canadian railway that history forgot.
The Pioneer Railway Of The West
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Author : Clark Waggoner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
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Corporate History Of Wabash Railway Company
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Author : Wabash Railway Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
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To The Stockholders Of The Toledo Wabash And Western Railroad Company
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Author : Wabash Railway Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
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The American Midwest
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Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-08
The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-08 with Social Science categories.
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Printers Circular
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Wabash Formerly The Great Western Railroad
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Author : Wabash Railroad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
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World Railways Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Jim Harter
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005
World Railways Of The Nineteenth Century written by Jim Harter and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Engraving categories.
With its gallery of over 360 striking and unfamiliar images and extensive historical text World Railways of the Nineteenth Century invites readers to experience an unparalleled glimpse into the world of nineteenth-century railroading.Peter Skinner, Foreword