Author: Lesley Barker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439633053 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 128
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: 1439633053 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 128
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: Robert S. Farnsworth Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: 1480927074 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 724
Book Description
The Grand Western Railroad Game By: Robert S. Farnsworth The Grand Western Railroad Game by Robert S. Farnsworth is a fascinatingly detailed story of the historical importance of Western railroads. It has been meticulously written to educate the reader on the intricacies involved in the creation and growth of the Rock Island System over the “Empire Years.” The railroad’s premium passenger train service even inspired the popular song “The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line.” To quote the author, “I wrote this book, not from just the viewpoint of a rail fan, hundreds of whom have diligently photographically documented the railroad’s passage through time, but from the viewpoint of a former employee and from the insights gained from a broad education in both the university and in the experience of a practiced transportation planner. I hope that the reader will learn from the stories told here that the workers tried valiantly to do their jobs, that the line’s managers were forced to play with the hand that was dealt to them from a less than full deck, and that investors expected to get a reasonable return on the often gigantic sums paid into the corporation. “I hope that the information contained within these covers leads others toward more detailed studies of the railroads and of the conditions in which they survived, if not prospered.”
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
Author: Robert S. Farnsworth
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Post Office and Civil Service