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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
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