The Iron Road in the Prairie State : The Story of Illinois Railroading / Simon Cordery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordery, Simon, 1960- author.

Series:

Railroads Past and Present

Railroads past and present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--United States--History.

Railroads.

Railroads--Illinois--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Development Delayed; 3 Optimism Revived; 4 Cultivating the Prairie; 5 Financing Railroads; 6 Conflagrations and Expansion; 7 Illinois Railroad Labor; 8 A Kaleidoscope of Regulations; 9 Panic and Innovation; 10 Bridge Building and "Overbuilding"; 11 Excursions and Interurbans; 12 Coal and Competition; 13 Progressive Regulation; 14 World War I and the 1920s; 15 Depression, Dieselization, and Another War; 16 Postwar Challenges; 17 National Solutions?; 18 Salvation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780253019127

0253019125

OCLC:

928716752