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The Tootin' Louie : a history of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway / Don L. Hofsommer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hofsommer, Donovan L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway--History.
- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Tootin' Louie, railroad historian Don L. Hofsommer offers a comprehensive biography of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway and its Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Illinois service areas. Incorporating primary research documents, including station records and dispatchers' reports, Hofsommer brings the M&StL to life by portraying the lives and times of the people involved in the railroad.
- Contents:
- Expectancy
- Lethargy, euphoria, and panic
- Albert Lea at last
- Optimism and realism
- The great Rock Island route
- Independent again
- The Little Harriman
- The newest and the best
- It will be a hummer
- Everything from caskets to corsets
- Struggling among the titans
- Sweet and sour
- Hard times in good times
- Soldiering on
- Mean and ugly
- Frey and dismemberment
- Reason for hope?
- Free at last
- Don't you know there's a war on?
- Sprague and prosperity
- Sprague at the throttle
- The ides of May
- Halting steps
- Days of red and white
- Valhalla
- Under a green and yellow flag.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-359) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9603-9
- OCLC:
- 476095666
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