Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
... Valuation Docket No. 1
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Railroad Valuation by the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: Homer Bews VanderbluePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Collier's
Author: HansiTranscript of Proceedings of the National Railway Labor Panel Emergency Board, New York, N.Y., 1943
Author: United States. Emergency Board (carriers and employees, 1943)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
The Railway and Engineering Review
Author: Walter Mason CampPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Collier's
Author: Railway Age
Author: American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2530
Book Description
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 2292
Book Description
Sunset Cluster
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253066727
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Discover the Sunset Cluster—railroads that were doomed to fail? The first two decades of the 20th century were the twilight of the Railroad Age. Major routes had long been established, and local service became the focus of new construction. Beginning in 1907, a cluster of five shortline railroads were established in otherwise unconnected parts of Iowa. They, however, would short lived. The five Iowa 'sunset cluster' railroads might appear to deserve eternal obscurity, being at best minor footnotes to American railroad history. After all, their total mileage barely exceeded 100 miles. Their average life span, moreover, covered about five years, and the Des Moines & Red Oak Railway (DM&RO) never turned a wheel. Yet, these Iowa shortlines had an immediate positive impact to their service area, but disappointingly they became victims of modal competition and the Good Roads Movement. Using contemporary newspapers, government reports, and other little-known sources, renowned railway historian H. Roger Grant offers a fascinating look at these shortline railroads. Sunset Cluster explores the almost desperate desire by communities to benefit from steel rails before the regional railroad map finally imploded and the challenges faced by latter-day shortline builders.