Author: Lesley Barker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738540702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 127
Book Description
Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
Author: Lesley Barker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738540702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 127
Book Description
Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism Publisher: ISBN: Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 525
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Special Subcommittee on Investigations Publisher: ISBN: Category : Freight cars Languages : en Pages : 819
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Publisher: ISBN: Category : Railway mail service Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Discusses problems arising from proposed changeovers from railway to other forms of mail transportation.
Author: Lesley Barker
Author: Lesley Barker
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Author: Task Force on Rail Transportation. St. Louis Project Team
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Special Subcommittee on Investigations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service