Author: Jerry A. PinkepankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Trackside Around Detroit Downriver, 1946-1976 with Emery Gulash
Author: Jerry A. PinkepankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Trackside Around Toledo, 1946-1976 with Emery Gulash
Author: Jerry A. PinkepankPublisher: Morning Sun Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9781582483436
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Insull Chicago Interurbans
Author: Gordon LloydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878887610
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Wabash
Author: Donald J. HeimburgerPublisher: Heimburger House Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780911581027
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Wabash Railroad ran through the Heart of America with nearly 2,500 miles of track from Buffalo, New York, to Kansas City and Omaha, serving such towns as Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. Its beautiful steam locomotives included the Class J 4-6-2s, Class L 2-10-2s, Class O 4-8-4s and Class P 4-6-4 steam types, and diesels such as the F-7As, FAs, E-7s, E-8s and PAs. Wabash passenger trains included the City of St. Louis, City of Kansas City, Blue Bird, Banner Blue and the very famous Wabash Cannonball.
Railroading on the Wabash Fourth Distirct
Author: Victor Allen BairdPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615521480
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Built as the Wabash Railroad's "Chicago Extension" and an integral part of the shortest railroad between Detroit and Chicago, the Fourth District through Northwest Ohio and Northern Indiana has a colorful history. It was also the first Wabash District dieselized (1950) and home of the last mixed train in Indiana (1962). In addition to an illustrated, researched history, dating back to 1891, Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District tells the story in the words of railroaders that worked the line and folks who remember it. This 320 page hardcover book includes hundreds of photographs, maps, illustrations (some color), diagrams, timetables, track charts, a grade profile, color section, end notes, bibliography and index. As a bonus, the postscript chapter provides an up-date on what happened to the railroad after the 1964 Wabash lease to Norfolk & Western. This includes operations and preservation efforts into the Norfolk Southern era. Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District comes just in time to mark the one hundred twentieth anniversary of the official opening of this line in 1893.
Toledo Railroads
Author: Kirk F. HisePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738533912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The advent of the railroadÃ--a major mode of transportation and an important link to industryÃ--forged the interworkings of a nation, and especially the City of Toledo due to its location on the harbor. In 1850, rail companies began moving in, and Toledo soon became a central connecting point for railroads, bridging the gap between cities like Chicago and Cleveland and Detroit and Cincinnati, making coal available to cities everywhere. Just after the turn of the 20th century, there were 20 different railroads servicing Toledo with four different main stations, providing employment for the town and shaping its commerce and architecture. Today, many of the railroads have been lost to evolution of the city and mergers of the railroad. This book preserves their history through vintage images of trains, rail yards, stations, roundhouses, towers, bridges, and special trains.
Long Island Rail Road: Port Jefferson Branch
Author: David D. Morrison, Foreword by David KellerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467120138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroad's passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, "End of Steam Ceremony," when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Island Rail Road is on this branch at St. James. Between 1895 and 1938, the branch extended 10 miles east to Wading River. The branch was not electrified until 1970 and that was only to Huntington Station, east of which is served by diesel and dual-mode locomotives.
The Great Railroad Revolution
Author: Christian WolmarPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391802
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
"Follow the Flag"
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 1501747797
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"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.
Author: Rigby