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RAILROADS -
Business History of Companies
Interesting Dates
March 12, 1755 - A steam engine was first reported used in
America at Colonel John Schuyler's copper mine in New Barbados Neck (now
North Arlington), NJ; imported from England by Josiah Hornblower.
1767 -
John Wilkinson built first iron railroads
for mines.
March 24, 1802 - Richard Trevithick received a patent for
a high pressure tram engine, first steam driven road carriage; December 24,
1801 - demonstrated it to public, successfully carried number of men up Beacon Hill;
February 21, 1804 - tested first self-propelling steam
engine or steam locomotive
to run on rails at the Peny-Darren ironworks on its normally horse-drawn tramline; able
to pull a load of 15 tons at a speed of about 5 mph; adhesion was a
problem as the iron wheels slipped on the iron rails, cast-iron rails of
the tramways not strong enough to support the weight of new machine,
experiment abandoned.
June 1804 - Parliament authorized laying of railway from
Swansea to Oystermouth; July 4, 1804 -
Oystermouth Railway (or Tramroad
Company) incorporated; autumn 1804 - first tracks
laid; spring 1806 - first horse drawn train traveled from
Swansea to Mumbles; March 25, 1807 - first regular
horsedrawn service carrying passengers between Swansea and Mumbles
began; first passenger railway in world; January 5, 1960 -
closed.
March 25, 1807 - First railway passenger service began in
England.
1815 - New Jersey legislature awarded Colonel John
Stevens first railroad charter in North America; 1825 -
operated "steam waggon", first operating locomotive in America, around
circular track at Hoboken, NJ
September 27, 1825 - George Stephenson operated Stockton
& Darlington line, first locomotive to haul a passenger train in England; first railway in world to carry passengers and freight, both
largely using steam locomotives, and to any kind of meaningful
timetable; pulled 34 wagons, 1 solitary coach over 21 miles.
1826 - Scotland's first commercial railway opened,
Edinburgh to Dalkeith.
March 4, 1826 -
Granite Railway in Quincy, MA first U.S. Railroad chartered;
October 7, 1826 - first gravity-powered railroad, went into
operation.
February 28, 1827 -
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. incorporated as first U.S.
railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight.
March 24, 1828 - Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (first
state owned) authorized.
July 4, 1828 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, MD,
signer of the Declaration of Independence, laid first stone of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
August 8, 1829 - The first steam locomotive in America,
the Stourbridge Lion, was tested in Honesdale, PA;
traveled at 10 m.p.h. on wooden tracks faced with wrought iron that
already existed as a gravity railway, used to carry coal from mines at
Carbondale to the canal terminus at Honesdale, Pennsylvania; built by
Foster, Rastrick & Co., of Stourbridge, England for the Hudson Railroad
Company; deemed too heavy for continued use hauling loads of coal on
those tracks.
January 7, 1830 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company began rail service.
May 24, 1830 - First passenger railroad in
United States began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, MD;
August 28, 1830 - "Tom Thumb", first locomotive built
in America, ran from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mill, MD.
September 15, 1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester
line,
built by George Stephenson, principal inventor of railroad locomotive,
opened in England; world's first intercity passenger railway operated
solely by steam locomotives (carried 600 passengers).
September 15, 1830 - William Huskisson (1770-1840), British statesman became first railway fatality while observing ceremonial procession of locomotives at Liverpool and Manchester railway
opening; stumbled in front of passing train which ran over his leg;
died that evening.
September 18, 1830 - B&O locomotive Tom Thumb, first locomotive built in America, lost a 14-km race to a horse due to
boiler leak.
December 25, 1830 - The South Carolina Canal and
Railroad Company began operation as first regularly scheduled passenger
train in United States.
1831 - Matthias Baldwin founded Baldwin Locomotive Works
on Broad street in Philadelphia, PA; built steam locomotives for
Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, many of the other railroads in North America, overseas;
1909 - incorporated as Baldwin Locomotive Works; 1948
- acquired by Westinghouse Corporation; 1950 - merged with
Lima-Hamilton Corporation, formed Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation;
1956 - last of some 70,541 common carrier size locomotives
produced.
February 19, 1831 - First practical US coal-burning
locomotive made first trial run in Pennsylvania.
April 25, 1831 - New York and Haerlem Railroad Company
incorporated to link New York City with Harlem; November 26, 1832 -
first section, along
The Bowery from
Prince Street north to
14th Street, opened.
August 9, 1831 - First steam locomotive train began inaugural run between Albany, Schenectady, NY.
April 14, 1832 -
New York and Erie Rail Road
incorporated'
April 24, 1832 - New York State legislature granted charter; required that railroad: 1) not connect with any
out-of-state road (connected Hudson River at Piermont, north of New York
City, to Lake Erie at Dunkirk); 2) raise $10 million, 3) not formally
organize until half its stock was subscribed to; May 19, 1851
- full length to Dunkirk opened; built as 6 foot wide gauge;
August 1859 - company went into receivership due to large
construction costs; first bankruptcy of a major trunk line in the U.S.;
June 25, 1861 - reorganized as Erie Railway; 1867
- Jay Gould (31) became a director of the Erie RR; waged "Erie War" with
Cornelius Vanderbilt for control; issued illegal stock, bribed state
legislators, manipulated stock in his own interest and that of his
group; 1868 - became president (expelled in 1872);
1874 - reorganized, became New York, Lake Erie & Western
Railroad; June 22, 1880 - entire system converted to
standard gauge; 1893 - went into bankruptcy reorganization, emerged as
Erie Railroad; January 18, 1938 - entered bankruptcy;
October 17, 1960 - merged with Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western, formed Erie-Lackawanna.
July 25, 1832 - First recorded railroad accident in U.S.
history occurred when four people thrown off vacant car on
Granite Railway near Quincy, MA; had been invited to
view process of transporting large, weighty loads of stone when cable on
vacant car snapped on return trip, threw them off
train, over 34-foot cliff; one man killed , others seriously injured.
1834 - Long Island Railroad chartered; 1900 -
acquired by Pennsylvania Railroad; still running today, oldest American
railway operating under its original name; busiest commuter railroad on
continent, carries well over 81 million customers per year.
1835 - First railway boom period started in Britain –
construction of Great Western Railway.
July 9, 1835 - St. Etienne-Lyons railway opened in France.
July 13, 1836 - John Ruggles of Maine received the
first numbered patent (#1) for a "Locomotive Steam Engine for Rail and
Other Roads" (a new and useful improvement or improvement on
locomotive-engines used on railroads and common roads by which inclines
planes and hills may be ascended and heavy loads drawn up the same with
more facility and economy").
July 20, 1837 - Euston Railway station opened – first in
London.
September 19, 1838 - Ephraim Morris, of Bloomfield, NJ,
received a patent for a "Car Brake" ("mechanical means for regulating or
stopping the motion of cars on railroads"); railroad brake.
February 12, 1840 - Housatonic Railroad opened.
1844 - Railways Act in England, rail travel to masses.
1846 - John Murray Forbes acquired control of state-owned Michigan Central Railroad.
April 13, 1846 - Pennsylvania legislature chartered
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; 1847 - construction began;
September 1, 1849 - first section opened from Harrisburg
west to Lewistown.
April 29, 1851 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad made first
trial round trip
of an electric locomotive on Washington branch of Railroad; traveled five miles each way between Washington, DC,
Bladensburg, MD; used galvanized storage batteries (not practical
for long distances).
September 22, 1851 - Train dispatching by telegraph (vs.
timetable) in U.S. began when superintendent Charles Minot (Erie
Railroad) telegraphed 14 miles to Goshen, NY to delay a train so that
his train would not have to wait. Previously, dispatching was done by
the "time interval rule": a train had to wait one hour for an opposing
train.; if train hadn't arrived, brakeman on the waiting train had to
walk for 20 minutes ahead of his train with a red flag to stop late
train; engineer of the waiting train would then catch up to the
brakeman; routine was repeated as necessary.
May 25, 1852 - E.G. Otis, of Bergen, NJ, received a a patent for a
"Railroad-Car and Truck Brake".
March 3, 1853 - Congress authorized transcontinental
railroad survey.
April 18, 1853 - First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36
km).
July 7, 1853 - Erastus Corning, president of
Utica and Schenectady Railroad, filed
Consolidation Agreement under recently passed New York Central
Consolidation Act ;
merged,
became president of, 10 railroads across New York State, formed New
York Central railroad between Albany and Buffalo (Albany and Schenectady
Railroad, Utica and Schenectady Railroad, Syracuse and Utica Railroad,
Rochester and Syracuse Railroad, Buffalo and Rochester Railroad,
Schenectady and Troy Railroad (branch from Schenectady east to Troy),
Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad (major branch from
Rochester west to Niagara Falls), Buffalo and Lockport Railroad (branch
from the Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls), Mohawk Valley Railroad,
Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad;
1864
- Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired control of Hudson River Railroad;
November 12,
1867 - acquired control of New York Central; December 11,
1867 - elected president; 1869 - merged
both, formed New York Central and Hudson River Railroad; July 1,
1900 - leased Boston and Albany Railroad; 1906 -
acquired The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Big
Four); April 29, 1914 - eleven railroads consolidated,
formed the New York Central Railroad Company.
July 18, 1853 -
Atlantic & St. Lawrence
Railroad opened for traffic; taken over by Grand Trunk Railroad;
first North
American international railroad between Portland, ME and Montreal, QU;
1933 - Canada established policy
favoring its own ports; business for St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
dropped dramatically; later affiliated with Canadian National Railroad.
September 19, 1854 - Henry B. Myer, of Buffalo, NY,
received a patent for a "Car Seat and Couch" ("mode of converting the
seats and backs of railroad car-seats into such as are commonly used
into beds or lounges for the purpose of sleeping or resting"); sleeping
rail car.
April 21, 1855 - First train crossed Mississippi
River's first bridge, Rock Island, IL to Davenport IA.
May 3, 1855 - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opened.
March 5, 1856 - Georgia became first state to regulate
railroads.
January 13, 1857 - Thaddeus Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury,
VT, received a patent for "Platform Scales" ("Improved
Platform-Scale for Weighing Railway-Cars Either Alone or in Train");
introduced by E. and T. Fairbanks and Company.
March 1857
- U.S.
Congress authorized overland mail delivery service, $600,000
yearly subsidy for any company which could reliably transport mail twice a
week from St. Louis to San Francisco in less than 25 days;
postmaster general awarded first government contract, subsidy to
Overland Mail Company (board of directors included John Butterfield, William Fargo); spent $1 million improving its 2,800-mile route,
building way stations at 10-15 mile intervals;
September 15, 1858 - Overland Mail Company sent
out first two stages, inaugurated government mail service between
eastern, western regions of nation; May
10, 1869 - first transcontinental railroad completed, U.S. government cancelled last overland mail contract.
September 1, 1859 - First Pullman sleeping car put
into service.
February 11, 1859 - Kansas Gov. Samuel Medary approved
charter (written by Cyrus K. Holliday) for company to be incorporated
under name of Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company; September
15-17, 1860 - organized in Atchison, KS in office of Luther C.
Challiss; Cyrus K. Holliday elected first president; November 24,
1863 - name changed to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road
Company; October 30, 1868 - construction began;
April 26, 1869 - first section of track opened; December
23, 1893 - entered receivership; September 21, 1995
- merged with Burlington Northern Railroad, formed Burlington Northern
and Santa Fe Railway.
June 12, 1860 - Nehemiah Hodge, of North Adams, MA,
received a patent for an "Atmospherical Railway Car Brake" ("combination
of certain mechanical devices, contrivances, or fixtures placed upon a
locomotive engine and upon the car o cars attached...whereby I employ
common atmospherical pressure as the force to operate the brake
machinery").
June 28, 1861 - The "big four" leaders of western railroad
construction--Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins,
Charles Crocker--organized Central Pacific Railroad Company of
California
(Leland Stanford president, Charles
Crocker president of construction company);
January 8, 1863 - broke ground at Sacramento, CA
(planned by Theodore Judah); cost of construction
estimated at $36 million; company received land grants and Government
bonds valued at $38.5 million; Stanford admitted that $54 million in
Central Pacific stock transferred to the Contract and Finance Company in
payment of construction contracts represented virtually net profit;
1959 - merged into Southern Pacific.
1862 - George Pullman remodeled old coaches from Chicago
and Alton Railroad into sleeping cars; 1863 - finalized
design for 'Pioneer' car; 1864 - finished designed for
Pullman sleeper (luxury sleeping cars with carpeting, draperies,
upholstered chairs, libraries, card tables, unparalleled level of
customer service; more than five times price of regular railway car);
April 5, 1864 - Ben Field, of Albion, NY, and George M.
Pullman, of Chicago, IL, received a patent for a "Sleeping Car";
February 22, 1867 - Pullman Palace Car Co. organized; 1893
- company worth $62 million; 1894 - 'Pullman Strike';
January 1, 1900 - reorganized as The Pullman Co.; June
21, 1927 - reorganized as Pullman, Inc.; December 26, 1934
- Pullman Car & Manufacturing merged with Standard Steel Car Co., formed
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company; 1944 -
Department of Justice forced Pullman Incorporated (United States v.
Pullman Co.) to divest itself of either Pullman Company (operating) or
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company (manufacturing); 1947
- sold to consortium of fifty-seven railroads for around $40 million;
December 31, 1968 - operations of Pullman Company sleeper
cars ceased, all leases terminated; January 1, 1969 -
Pullman Company dissolved, all assets liquidated; late 1980
- merged with Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., became a subsidiary; April
1981 - spun off large fleet of leased freight rail cars as
Pullman Leasing Company; mid 1981 - spun off freight car
manufacturing interests as Pullman Transportation Company.
July 1, 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed Pacific Railroad Act of 1862; threw support of
United States Government behind transcontinental railroad; authorized Union Pacific
Railroad, first corporation chartered by National Government
since Second United States Bank, to build westward from Missouri
River to California boundary or until it met the Central Pacific
(Congress fixed longitude, President named Omaha the
terminus.); empowered Central Pacific, which already had a
charter from California, to push farther east, connect with Union
Pacific; strengthened loyal element in California, undoubtedly
insured continued allegiance of
Pacific Coast to United States during Civil War; provided key to conquering Indians,
means of considerably improving coastal defenses on Pacific coast; quicker, cheaper
transportation for Government supplies and mail; permitted vast, profitable trade to develop between East and West; hastened end
of continental frontier.
March 2, 1863 - Congress authorized a track width of 4-ft
8-1/2 in. as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad; became the
accepted width for most of the world.
December 2, 1863 - Union Pacific Railroad broke ground at
Omaha, NE; dominant in UP management were: 1) Thomas C. Durant, vice
president of railroad, president of Crédit
Mobilier of America until 1867, construction company that built the
road (bought by Durant in 1864 as the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency,
a corporation loosely chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature to
engage in practically any kind of business); 2) Oakes Ames, Boston shovel manufacturer and
Congressman from Massachusetts, 3) Grenville M. Dodge Chief Engineer;
cost about $63.5 million to build, about half represented Government s loan; invested capital never exceeded $10 million; profit
estimated at about 200 percent.
April 5, 1864 - Ben Field, of Albion, NY, and George M.
Pullman, of Chicago, IL, received a patent for a "Sleeping Car".
July 2, 1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed Pacific Railroad Act of 1864; solved
Union Pacific's financial problem: 1) soaring
price of materials, 2) extremely scarce labor, 3) alternative
investments with more immediate returns potential; doubled resources
made available to UNP; doubled land grant; Government relinquished its first lien on railroad by
authorizing companies, as they received Government subsidy bonds, to
issue equal amounts of their own 6-percent, 30-year bonds (constituted
first mortgage on road, U.S.
bonds a second mortgage); abundant finances, abundant labor, material made available by end of the Civil War enabled
companies to marshal forces for 10—year job, 1,085 miles from Omaha to
Promontory, UT (took less than 4 years); May 10, 1869
- Golden Spike driven in Promontory, UT.
July 2, 1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed Act of
Congress, created
American Rail Line, first of northern transcontinental
railway companies (eastern
terminus at Lake Superior, western terminus at Puget Sound);
1883
- Northern Pacific opened from Ashland, WI to Portland, OR; 1896
- renamed Northern Pacific Railway Company.
1865 - Group of businessmen in San Francisco, CA,
led by Timothy Guy Phelps (first president), founded Southern Pacific
Railroad to build rail connection between San Francisco and San Diego,
CA; 1868 - acquired by The Big Four (Leland Stanford
president); 1870 -
merged Central Pacific Railroad into its system; April 1, 1885
- took control of Central Pacific; 1890 - Collis P.
Huntington president; 1984 - merged with Santa Fe
Railroad, formed Santa Fe Southern Pacific
Corporation; October 13, 1988 - acquired by Rio Grande Industries.
August 8, 1865 -
Samuel R. Calthorp, of
Roxbury, MA, received patent for a "Railway Car" ("Improvement in
Construction of Railway Trains and Cars"); the streamlined railroad
train.
August 29, 1866 - Public demonstration given
of first cog railway in world (technology of toothed cog gears,
rack rails and tilted boilers) to show first half-mile of track at
base of Mount Washington, highest peak in Northeast U.S.
Invented by Sylvester Marsh of Littleton, NH, work began on railway
in May 1866, finished in July 1869 at cost of $139,500.
October 6, 1866 - John and Simeon Reno staged first train
robbery in American history, stole $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi
railroad train in Jackson County, IN.
November 26, 1867 -
J. B.
Sutherland, of Detroit, MI, received patent for a "Refrigerator Car";
insulated railroad car with ice bunkers in each end; air came in on top,
passed through bunkers, circulated through car by gravity, controlled by
use of hanging flaps that created differences in air temperature.
April 21, 1868 - Eli H. Janney, of Alexandria, VA,
received a patent for "Improved Car-Coupling" ('coupling and
uncoupling are performed without endangering the operator's life by
going between the cars");
April 29, 1873 -received a patent for railroad
"Car-Couplings" ("hook and catch with a guard-arm"); the "Janney
coupler".
June 16, 1868 - William Davis, fish
dealer in Detroit, MI, received a patent for an "Improvement in
Preserving Meats, etc." ("peculiar construction of a railroad-car, box,
chest or room in which to preserve animal or vegetable substances from
decay for a certain reasonable time, to allow them to be transported
from place to place or kept in store in a sweet and fresh condition");
refrigerated railroad car.
1869 - Rand McNally published first railroad guide,
Western Railway Guide.
March 23, 1869 - W. Leigh Burton, of Richmond, VA,
received a patent for an "Improvement in Electric-Heating Apparatus"
("useful improvements in evolving heat from elecricity...for heating
railway-carriages by means by heated metallic plates, placed under the
feet of passengers"); electrical resistance heater.
April 13, 1869 - George Westinghouse,
Jr., of Schenectady, NY, received a patent for a "Improvement in
Steam-Power Brake Devices" ("construction of a power car-brake for
railway-cars or other like vehicles to be operated by compressed air or
other elastic compressible fluid"); used on an experimental train
carrying officials of the Panhandle Railroad; not entirely successful
(took longer for air to reach last cars of train, so each car stopped at
different time); March 5, 1872 - (of Pittsburgh, PA)
received 3 patents: for "Improvement in Relief-Valves for Steam
Air-Brake Cylinders"; for "Improvement in Steam-Power for Air-Brakes and
Signals"; for "Improvement in Steam Air-Brakes" (steam-power air-brakes
for railway use"); 1887 - invented an automatic brake.
May 10, 1869 - Golden spike is driven at
Promontory, UT, completion of first transcontinental
railroad in United States; U-S transcontinental railways (north to south) became: 1. Great Northern (later part of Burlington
Northern). 2. Milwaukee Road (last one completed, no longer
there). 3. Northern Pacific (later part of Burlington Northern). 4.
original route (Union Pacific, Central Pacific). 5. Southern Pacific
(formed from original Central Pacific).
California Route Map
for Transcontinental Railroad: CA, NV, UT, WY, NE
(http://www.yamasun.com/00USGS-1916-Map-00.jpg)
June 7, 1870 - Thomas S. Hall, of Stamford, CT, received
patent for an "Electromagnetic Signal Apparatus for Railroads"; first
automatic electric block railroad signal system in the U.S.;
electromagnetic device automatically set a signal when locomotive struck
a lever fastened to the rail; signal set to danger until train cleared
block.
July 24, 1870 - First trans-U. S. rail service
began.
August 15, 1870
- Northern Pacific, having completed first northern
transcontinental rail route, went bankrupt.
May 23, 1871 -
Black American inventor
Landrow Bell, of Washington, DC, received a patent for a "Locomotive
Smoke Stack" ("to arrest the sparks and cinders which pass out of the
smoke-stack, to the great annoyance of passengers, and great danger to
combustible property contiguous to the line of steam travel").
July 3, 1871 - Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia,
PA built first U.S.-made, narrow-gauge locomotive - for mountain use;
first used by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway Company; more
adaptable to rough terrain, required less earthworks, permitted steeper
grades, sharper curves; used to haul passengers or freight; used in
logging, mining, industries and factories.
1872 - Credit Mobilier scandal broke (illegal
manipulation of contracts, few men contracted with themselves or
assignees for the construction of the railroad), disclosed that
Congressman Oakes Ames (MA) had sold shares Credit Mobilier to fellow
congressmen at a price greatly below the true value of the stock: actual
construction costs of the Union Pacific from Omaha to Promontory Point,
Utah, where the last spike was driven in 1869, have been estimated as in
excess of $44 million, while the Crédit Mobilier charged more than $94
million; shares were sold at prices lower than the stock was worth to
members of both the legislative and executive branches of the government
under liberal terms allowing the purchaser to pay for his stock out of
the accumulating dividends, guaranteeing the purchaser against loss, and
offering to buy back the stock if it were no longer wanted. dividends in
one year amounted to more than $300 per share, and the total sum
distributed among politicians has been estimated at $33 million; leaders
of the Crédit Mobilier were accused of having betrayed the government
and the people and of having seriously jeopardized the repayment to the
government of the subsidies provided in the Pacific Railroad bills.
July 24, 1872 - New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad formed through consolidation of New York and New Haven Railroad
and Hartford and New Haven Railroad; 1903 - New York
investors, led by J. P. Morgan, gained control; installed Charles S.
Mellen as President.
August 20, 1872 -
William Robinson, of
Brooklyn, NY, received a patent for an "Improvement in Electric
Signaling Apparatus for Railroads".
January 20, 1874 - Elijah H. McCoy, of Ypsilanti, MI,
received a patent for "Improvement in Steam-Lubricators".
February 10, 1874 - Charles H. Brown, of Salem, MA, and
Lewis H. Lattimer, of Somerville, MA, received a patent for
"Water-Closets for Railroad-Cars" ("Improvements in Water-Closets for
Railway Passenger-Cars").
1876 - Investors who
purchased Pacific Railroad created
Missouri Pacific Railway; 1879 - Jay Gould acquired
controlling interest; 1881 - Missouri Pacific gained
control of St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern.
June 4, 1876 - Transcontinental Express train arrived in
San Francisco 83 hours after leaving New York City (vs. four days).
February 12, 1877 - U.S. railroad builders strike against
wage reduction.
July 14, 1877 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers
(suffered through two pay cuts since the start of the Panic of 1873)
walked off the job to agitate for higher pay and fairer work conditions;
July 20, 1877 - Maryland militia, called in to break
the strike, opened fire on a crowd of strikers, killing nine of the
workers. Along with sparking four days of riots in Baltimore, the deaths
of the rail strikers unleashed a torrent of labor activity: workers at
other rail lines, as well as in other industries, called massive
sympathy strikes, some of which were also marred by violence between
strikers and State troopers. In the end, this summer of strikes had
mixed results: while the wave of walkouts helped refuel the
once-flagging labor movement, some workers--most notably the strikers at
the Baltimore and Ohio company--were cowed into signing agreements that
did little, if anything, to help their plight.
July 21, 1877 - Workers in rail-heavy Pittsburgh hit
picket line to stage sympathy strike with Baltimore and Ohio
railroad strike (nine strikers dead and touching off a round of riots
that engulfed Baltimore); rail workers ultimately signed an agreement
that did little to ameliorate their conditions.
July 23, 1877 - Cincinnati Southern, first U.S. municipal
railroad, began operations; ran from Cincinnati through central and
eastern Kentucky to Chattanooga, TN; to the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
May 31, 1879 - First electric railway opened at the Berlin
Trades Exposition.
June 14, 1881 - Ephraim Shay, of Haring, MI, received a
patent for a "Locomotive-Engine" ("to work on tramways and light rails
with reduced wear on the track"); geared, small steam locomotive to haul
heavy logging trains at low speeds over rough terrain with poorly-laid,
uneven track, sharp curves, grades up to 14 percent.
February 5, 1883 - Southern Pacific Railroad (the "Espee")
completed its transcontinental "Sunset Route" from New Orleans to
California by gaining full control of a number of smaller railroads;
consolidated its dominance over rail traffic to the Pacific;
1869 - Big Four's
(Crocker, Hopkins, Huntington, Stanford) western-based Central Pacific
had linked up with the eastern-based Union Pacific in Utah, creating the
first transcontinental American railway; 1870 -
"Big Four" conceived plan to increase their control over West Coast
shipping); 1877 - Southern Pacific controlled 85 percent
of California's railroad mileage; 1881 - Huntington linked
the Southern Pacific to the Santa Fe Railroad at Deming, New Mexico,
created the second American transcontinental railway; termed "the
Octopus" for its tentacled stranglehold on much of the California
economy, Southern Pacific inspired Californians to create some of the
first strong public regulations over railroads in American history;
mighty Southern Pacific Railroad played an essential role in fostering
the growth of a vibrant California economy for decades to come.
June 2, 1883 - Electric Railway Company (incorporated to
develop the patents and inventions of Thomas Edison and Stephen D.
Field) demonstrated first electric elevated railroad in the U.S.; built
around outer edge of the main exhibition building of the Chicago Railway
Exposition; June 9, 1883 - The "El" began operation;
July 1883 - made 1,588 trips, carried 28,805 passengers, ran
overall 446 miles before exhibition closed on 23 Jun 1883.
September 8, 1883 - Northern Pacific Railroad drove last
spike at Independence Creek, MT.
October 6, 1883 - Orient Express completed first run from
Paris to Constantinople (now Istanbul); took nearly 78
hours.
November 18, 1883 - The American Railway Association
instituted standard time in the U.S. at noon; adopted from system first
proposed by Charles F. Dowd, a school principal in New York state; North
America was divided into four time zones, fifteen degrees of longitude,
one hour of "standard time" apart; Sir Stanford Fleming proposed
extension of the Dowd system to the whole world with 24 time zones;
1918 - Congress officially adopted the railroad time zones
and put them under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
February 12, 1884 - Thomas Edison received a patent for
"Insulation of Railroad-Tracks Used for Electrical Circuits" ("better
insulation of lines of rails when the rails of each line of rails are
electrically united and form conductors for conveying an electric
current for utilization along the line of rails").
June 3, 1884 - Granville T. Woods, of Cincinnati, OH,
received a patent for a "Steam-Boiler Furnace"; appliance for electric
railways.
November 7, 1885 - Canada's transcontinental railway
completed at remote spot called Craigellachie in mountains of
British Columbia; Canadian Pacific laid 4,600 kilometers of single
track, railway completed six years ahead of schedule; first train
from Montreal to Vancouver averaged 24mph.
March 6, 1886 - Some 9,000 members of Knights of Labor
struck to protest practices of Southwestern Railroad system; took on
Wall Street financier Jay Gould; effectively halted service on 5,000
miles of track; saddled Southwestern rail with losses totaling $3
million; impeded trans-coastal trade network; forfeited $900,000 in
wages, eventually began to suffer from hunger; May 1886 -
strikers returned to work.
January 10, 1888 -
Black American inventor, Albert B.
Blackburn, of Springfield, OH, received a
patent for a "Railway-Signal" ("operated by the wheel or wheels of the
train").
May 1, 1888 - Trial of first electric freight
locomotive in U.S. took place on Ansonia, Derby and Birmingham
Electric Line, Connecticut; 17.5 ton engine could pull train of about
35 tons, at less than 10 mph; built by Pullman Car Co. of Pullman,
IL.
June 19, 1888 - Thomas A. Edison and Ezra T. Gilliland
received a patent for "Railway Signaling"; related to signaling systems
for communicating between stations and moving trains by induction from
the telegraph wires to the roofs of the cars.
July 17, 1888 - Granville T. Woods, of Cincinnati, OH,
received a patent for "Tunnel Construction for Electric Railways"
("Improvements in Tunnel Constructions for Electro-Motive Railways").
September 11, 1888 - King David Kalakaua granted charter
for a railroad to Benjamin Dillingham, a self-made businessman;
November 16, 1889 - Oahu Railway and Land Company, 18.5 mile
railroad, began operating in Hawaii; 1947 - dissolved.
April 23, 1889 - Arnold Romain, of New Orleans, LA,
received a patent for a "Passenger-Register" ("Improvements in a
Fare-Register...registering devices...to render such registration
entirely automatic").
May 31, 1891 - Work on trans-Siberian railway began.
February 16, 1892 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for
a "Converter System for Electric Railways".
May 24, 1892 - Thomas A. Edison was issued three patents
for an "Electric Locomotive" and a fourth patent relating to an
"Electric Railway.
February 20, 1893 - Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (key
transporter for Pennsylvania's anthracite mine industry) fell into
receivership (ran up debts totaling $125 million); helped plunge
America into the Panic of 1893; railroad survived in various forms
before fiscal difficulties finally drove it out of business in the early
1970s.
March 2, 1893 - First federal railroad legislation passed;
required safety features.
June 20, 1893 - Black American inventor Thomas W. Stewart
and William E. Johnson, of Detroit, MI, received a patent for a
"Station- Indicator" ("to indicate the different stations or streets
which the car is approaching").
October 13, 1893 - Union Pacific, one of the nation's
largest railroads, announced that it was in receivership; 1897
- sold to group of investors, including Edward H. Harriman,
then-president of Illinois Central,
for $110 million.
May 1, 1894 - William B. Purvis, of Philadelphia, PA,
received a patent for an "Electric Railway" ("for automatically lifting
portions of an electric conductor...so that the current can be
transmitted to a motor on a car or vehicle").
May 11, 1894 -
Workers at the Pullman
Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike with the help/support of labor
leader Eugene Debs and his American Railway Union (ARU);
June 1894 - sympathetic railway workers boycotted trains
carrying Pullman cars nationwide;
Pullman
convinced government that strikes and boycotts were inhibiting
delivery of America's mail (though his trains didn't carry any);
July - government banned the boycotts, swiftly shipped 2000
troops to Chicago; July 20 , 1894 - militia left Chicago,
34 men dead, AFL chief Samuel Gompers refused to lend any substantial
support, workers forced to capitulate to management; many strikers
barred from working in rail industry.
August 4, 1894 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began use
of electric engines (vs. steam)
in regular service for freight trains; traveled on 3.6 mile route
through Baltimore tunnel.
March 26, 1895 - Henry L. Simmons, of Wickes, MT, received a patent for a
"Railroad-Train" ("whereby one train may pass over another train which
it meets or overtakes upon the same track"); railroad car for passing.
May 1, 1895 -
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began regular use of
electric engines (vs. steam) for passenger trains.
July 8, 1895 - Delagoa Bay Railway opened in South-Africa.
January 12, 1897 - Daniel L. White, of Cincinnati, OH,
received a patent for an "Extension-Step for Cars" ("means for
increasing the number of steps in a flight when required, to provide an
extensible flight which will be safe in either of its positions, and to
provide an automatically folding flight").
August 17, 1897 - William B. B Purvis, of Philadelphia,
PA, received a patent for an "Electrical Railway System"; electric
railway switch.
November 23, 1897
- Andrew Jackson Beard, of Eastlake, AL, received a patent for a
"Car-Coupling" ("improvements in that class of car-couplings in which
horizontal jaws engage each other to connect the cars"); "Jenny coupler"
hooked railroad cars together by allowing them to bump into each other;
received $50,000 for the patent rights.
March 14, 1899 - James H. Robinson, of Minneapolis, MN,
received a patent for a "Life-Saving Guard for Locomotives" )"for
gathering up obstacles on the track to prevent their being crushed by
the wheels of the train...to enable the engineer to gather up persons
who may be walking or lying on the track without injury to them other
than the shock resulting from being caught up suddenly by a
rapidly-moving train").
April 23, 1899 - Arnold Romain, of New Orleans, LA,
received a patent for a "Passenger-Register" ("improvements in
registering devices, and its object is to render such registration
entirely automatic").
April 30, 1900 - A legend born as engineer John Luther
''Casey'' Jones of Illinois Central Railroad died in train wreck
near Vaughan, MS, after staying at controls in effort to save passengers.
January 29, 1901 - Black inventor, Granville T. Woods, of
New York, NY, received a patent for an "Electric Railway"; applied to
electric trains which take their power from conductors in road-bed;
assigned to General Electric Co.
March 10, 1902 - Attorney General Philander Knox filed anti-trust suit against J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company,
New Jersey-based holding concern for Morgan's sizable western railroad
business, for violation of Sherman Anti-Trust Act; 1904
- Supreme Court ruled against Northern Securities, handed Theodore
Roosevelt, Knox high-profile victory in war on trusts; solidified
Roosevelt's reputation as "trustbuster", asserted federal government's
right to regulate corporate America.
June 10, 1902 - Granville T. Woods, of New York, NY,
received a patent for an "Automatic Air-Brake" ("to compel a positive
action of each brake when the same is expected to 'go on', to stop the
car, or to 'come off', and thereby release the car"); assigned to
Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
January 13, 1903 - Black American inventor, Granville T.
Woods, received a U.S. patent for an "Electric Railway System" of the
type that "current for the car-motor is taken from working contacts or
conductors along the road bed" to "insure safety from shock at the
working conductor or contacts, reduce leakage to a minimum, economize
current in the operation of the system, and at the same time provide a
system which can be easily constructed and perfectly controlled."
May 26, 1903 - Granville T. Woods and Lyates Woods, of New
York, NY, received a patent for an "Electric Railway" ("improvements in
electric railways provided with normally dead sectional conductors";
assigned to general Electric Company.
July 5, 1904 - Fletcher T. Troutman & Albert Gonzales, of
Los Angeles, CA, received a patent for a "Railroad-Switch" ("to enable a
switch to be thrown by an operator upon a moving car, and thereby save
time of stopping the car and going ahead of the same to turn the switch,
so that the car will move onto the side or switch track").
July 21, 1904 - Trans-Siberian railway completed after
13 years of work (4,607-miles), linked European Russia with the Pacific
coast, opened Siberia to large-scale colonization; reduced gap between
the industrial development of Russia and Europe; expanded the Russian
industrial proletariat, which was concentrated in a few large cities;
1891 - construction began on the initiative of Count Sergei
Yulyevich Witte, completed in 1905; longest railroad in the world.
January 1, 1905 - The Trans-Siberian Railway made maiden voyage, united Vladivostok, Manchuria with Paris, France.
April 2, 1905 - Cairo-Capetown railway opened.
1906 - Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific organized
the Pacific Fruit Express, world's largest refrigerator car operator.
June 29, 1906 - Congress passed Hepburn Act;
effectively created first of the government's regulatory
commissions; enlarged Interstate Commerce Commission's
jurisdiction, forbade railroads to increase rates without its approval,
gave ICC the authority to set maximum rates.
December 23, 1907- Pennsylvania Railroad Co. completed first U.S. all-steel passenger railroad coach; previous design had steel underframe and superstructure, composite roof, wooden window
frames and sills.
February 25, 1908 - Hudson and Manhattan Railroad trains
began operations; invited dignitaries gathered at station on New York
side of Hudson; telegraph operator sent message to White House, Theodore
Roosevelt pushed button that turned on station's power, illuminated
waiting trains; 1954 - Hudson and Manhattan Railroad filed
for bankruptcy; 1962 - Port Authority Trans-Hudson
Corporation (PATH) purchased tubes.
January 22, 1912 - Florida East Coast Railroad opened,
ran between Key West and mainland; 1935 - railroad
closed, paved road opened.
April 22, 1913 - Thomas Wright, of Jersey City, NJ,
received patent for a "Side Delivery Dump Body" ("body elevating
mechanism") to load ice into refrigerator railway cars; truck with an
extension top that could be adjusted to any position, ice could be
loaded by one man, without help, even in upper section of the railcar.
March 19, 1917 - The
Supreme Court upheld eight-hour work day for railroads.
December 26, 1917 -
To support the war effort President Woodrow Wilson announced nationalization of large majority of
country’s railroads under
Federal Possession and Control Act; December 28 - United
States Railroad Administration (USRA) seized control; railroads divided
into three divisions—East, West and South; passenger services
streamlined, inessential travel eliminated, over 100,000 new railroad
cars, 1,930 steam engines ordered (designed to latest standards) at total cost of $380 million; March 1918 - Railroad Control
Act passed into law; stated that within 21 months of peace treaty, railroads would be returned by government to their owners who would
be compensated for use of their property; March 1920 -
USRA disbanded, railroads became private property again.
June 6, 1919
- Canadian National Railways incorporated; longest railway system in
North America, controls more than 30 000 miles of track in Canada, US.
1921 - Railway Act in Britain amalgamated companies – only
four remained.
October 16, 1922 - The Simplon II railway tunnel,
under Alps, linked Switzerland and Italy, completed.
May 8, 1926 - A. Philip Randolph organized Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters.
May 20, 1926 - Railway Labor Act became law.
November 15, 1928 - SRS 102, first commercial service
of non-destructive rail detector car to detect transverse fissures in
railroad rails, began service on Wabash Railway in Montpelier, OH;
tested 155 miles of track in 14 days, found average of 14 defects a
day.
May 24, 1931 -
B&O
Railroad installed first air-conditioned train.
February 10, 1935 - Pennsylvania Rail Road began
passenger service on new electric locomotive.
February 7, 1940 - British railroads nationalized.
January 19, 1944 -
Federal government relinquished control of nation's railroads
after settling month-long wage dispute; December 27, 1943
- President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered government to take control of railroads to avoid paralysis of nation's rail lines.
May 17, 1946 -
President Harry S. Truman seized control of nation's railroads, delayed threatened strike by engineers, trainmen.
January 1, 1948 - British Railways nationalized.
November 15, 1948 -
First gas-turbine electric locomotive in U.S., 4800 hp
Alco-GE, track-tested in Erie, PA; hauled 85 loaded freight cars at
speeds as high as 65 mph.
June 16, 1949 - First gas turbine-electric locomotive in
U.S. publicly demonstrated in, Erie, PA; gas-turbine engine originally designed for aircraft, gave forward thrust from reaction
of its exhaust stream; in the locomotive, power from turbine used to drive generator supplied electric power to eight traction
motors driving locomotive wheels.
August 25, 1950 - President Harry S. Truman ordered
Army to seize control of nation's railroads to avert strike.
June 8, 1953 - Union Pacific Railroad placed first U.S.
propane fuelled gas-turbine locomotive in service; delivered more than
4,800 h.p. (more than three diesel units), had advantage of clean
burning, kept turbine blades free from carbon deposits with less wear;
January 1954 - although test considered a success, locomotive was
converted to burn residual fuel oil.
September 1, 1960 - Disgruntled rail workers effectively
halted operations at Pennsylvania Railroad for two days; first
shutdown in company's 114-year history.
May 28, 1961 - The Orient Express, from Paris to
Bucharest, made last journey after operating for 78 years; 1982 - route
revived.
October 1, 1964 - Japanese Shinkansen (or, "bullet
trains") began high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
April 27, 1966 - Pennsylvania and New York Central
Railroads merged, formed Pennsylvania and New York Central
Transportation Company (Penn Central), single biggest merger in U.S.
corporate history, $4 billion in assets, one of the ten biggest
non-fiscal companies in America;
1970 - mismanagement and financial difficulties pushed
Penn Central to file for bankruptcy.
December 3, 1967 - The 20th Century Limited, famed luxury train, completed final run from New York City to
Chicago.
February 1, 1968 - Merger of Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Central Railroad completed; June 21, 1970 - Penn
Central filed for bankruptcy; April 1, 1976 - Conrail
begins operations; March 25, 1994 - Penn Central
Corporation (non-railroad businesses, such as real estate and insurance)
changed its name to American Premier Underwriters (APU); 1995
- purchased by American Financial Group (AFG).
May 1, 1971 -
Amtrak, combined and streamlined operations of 18 intercity
passenger railroads, began service.
October 14, 1980
- President Jimmy Carter signed Staggers Rail Act of 1980 into
law (named for Congressman Harley Staggers (D-WV), chaired House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee;
believed to be first
(but not last) case in which sponsor's name officially
incorporated into text of Federal statute); deregulated railroad industry to
significant extent, replaced regulatory structure that existed
since 1887
Interstate Commerce Act; railroads permitted to determine
where they ran trains, how much to charge; followed Airline
Deregulation Act of 1978.
February 26, 1981
- French Train, Grande Vitesse, averaged 380 kph on trial run;
September 22, 1981
- took inaugural run from
Paris to Lyons.
July 3, 1996 - Surface
Transportation Board cast unanimous vote in favor of proposed $3.9
billion merger of Union Pacific Railroad's bid to acquire Southern Pacific; Departments of Justice, Transportation and
Agriculture had recommended that both companies sell some rail
lines to prevent negative impact on industry.
October, 2005
- Jitong Railway, 567-mile line in province of Inner
Mongolia, closed - last mainline coal-fired, steam-powered railroad in world
(replaced by diesel).
May 10, 2008 - Amtrak (National
Railroad Passenger Corporation) held first National Train Day, 139 years
after golden spike connected east and west in Promontory Summit, Utah
when "golden spike" was driven into final tie that joined 1,776 miles of
the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, ceremonially creating
nation’s first transcontinental railroad and transforming America;
coast-to-coast celebration of way trains connect people and places;
simultaneous National Train Day festivities in New York’s Penn Station,
Union stations in Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Businessmen--Ohio--Biography; Real estate
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(Amtrak), Joseph Vranich (1997).
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Amtrak in the Heartland. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
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Communications (Cleveland State University). Amtrak--History;
Railroads--United States--Passenger traffic--History. Conditions that led to the passage of the Rail Passenger
Service Act of 1970, formation and implementation of Amtrak in
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From the
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Company--History; Railroads--Chile--History;
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(Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe), Glenn Danford Bradley (1920).
The
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Santa
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Steel
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(Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe), Joseph A. Noble (1964). From Cab
to Caboose. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 205 p.).
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of the Santa Fe Trail: A Definitive History, in Fact and Photograph,
of the Motive Power of One of America's Great Railroads. (Dallas,
TX: Southwest Railroad Historical Society, 479 p.). Atchison, Topeka,
and Santa Fe Railroad Company; Locomotives--History.
(Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe), Keith L. Bryant, Jr. (1974).
History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. (New York,
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All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to
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Railroad travel--New Mexico--Santa Fe--Marketing--History; City
promotion--New Mexico--Santa Fe--History; Tourism--New Mexico--Santa
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Comprehensive study of AT&SF's early involvement in the establishment
of western tourism.
(Atlantic & Great Western Railroad), William Reynolds; edited by
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European Capital,
British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story of the Atlantic & Great
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The Story of the
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Street-railroads -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History;
Street-railroads -- British Columbia -- New Westminster -- History;
Street-railroads -- British Columbia -- Nanaimo -- History;
Street-railroads -- British Columbia -- Victoria -- History.
(Baldwin Locomotive Works), Samuel M. Vauclain, with Earl Chapin
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(Baldwin Locomotive Works), Eric Hirsimaki (1986).
Lima: The
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Corporation; Locomotives--United States--History.
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The Baldwin
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(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 328 p.). Teaches history
of engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
(University of Virginia). Baldwin
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Age America , important global exporter.
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A History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831-1920.
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Origins, growth of one of America’s greatest industrial-era
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(Baltimore & Ohio), Edward Hungerford (1972).
Daniel Willard
Rides the Line; the Story of a Great Railroad Man. (Freeport, NY:
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--- (1972).
The Story of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
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(Baltimore & Ohio), Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. (1979).
Impossible
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(Baltimore & Ohio), John F. Stover (1987).
History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (West Lafayette,
IN: Purdue University Press, 419 p.). Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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(Baltimore & Ohio), David M. Vrooman (1991). Daniel Willard
and Progressive Management on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 218 p.). Willard, Daniel,
1861-1942; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company--Management--History;
Railroads--United States--Management--History; Corporate
culture--United States--History; Organizational
effectiveness--History.
(Baltimore & Ohio), James D. Dilts (1993).
The Great Road: The
Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad,
1828-1853. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 472 p.).
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company -- History.
(Bay of Quinte Railway), Donald M. Wilson (1983). Lost Horizons:
The Story of the Rathbun Company and the Bay of Quinte Railway, Its
Inception, Its Rise to Prominence, a Period of Growth and Stability
and the Decline. (Belleville, ON: Mika, 200 p.). Rathbun Company
-- History; Bay of Quinte Railway Company -- History; Railroads --
Ontario -- History; Deseronto (Ont.) -- History.
(Bellefonte Central Railroad), Michael Bezilla and Jack Rudnick
(2007).
Rails to Penn State: The Story of the Bellefonte Central.
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 310 p.). Bellefonte Central
Railroad--History; Railroads, Local and light--Pennsylvania--History.
Operated in central Pennsylvania from 1880s until 1982; classic
story of rise, decline of short line railroads nationwide; connected with Pennsylvania Railroad; played
important role in developing region's limestone, hot-blast iron-making
industries.
(Boston & Albany), Stephen Salsbury (1967).
The State, the
Investor, and the Railroad; the Boston & Albany, 1825-1867.
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(Brill Company), Debra Brill (2001).
History of the J. G. Brill
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(British Railways), Stewart Joy (1973). The Train That Ran Away:
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British Railways,
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First
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British Rail, 1974-97: From Integration to
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British Rail (Firm)--History--20th century; Railroads and state--Great
Britain--History--20th century; Privatization--Great
Britain--History--20th century. Last fifteen years
of nationalized railways in Britain.
(British Railways), Charles Loft (2006).
Government, the Railways, and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching’s
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British railways; Railroads--Great Britain--History--20th century;
Railroads--Government policy--20th century; Transportation and
state--Great Britain--History--20th century; Great Britain--Economic
policy--20th century. Complexities of transport
(government railway) policy and political pitfalls of implementing
massive changes.
(Burlington Lines), Richard C. Overton (1941).
Burlington West;
A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 583 p.). Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
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Railroad land grants--United States; West (U.S.).
(Burlington Lines), Richard C. Overton (1965).
Burlington Route; A
History of the Burlington Lines. (New York, NY: Knopf, 623 p.).
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company.
(Burlington Lines), Richard C. Overton (1982).
Perkins/Budd,
Railway Statesmen of the Burlington. (Westport, CT: Greenwood
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(California Western Railroad), Spencer Crump (1998).
The California Western "Skunk" Railroad. (Corona del Mar, CA:
Zeta Publishers Co., 111 p.). California Western Railroad--History;
Railroads--California--History.
(California Western Railroad), Mark McLaughlin (2003).
Western Train Adventures: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. (Lake
Tahoe, CA: Mic Mac Publishing, 208 p.). California Western
Railroad--History; Railroads--California--History.
Collection of true,
railroad-themed adventure stories, from train robberies, wrecks, wild
days at Lake Tahoe and the Comstock.
(Callander and Oban Railway Company), John Thomas (1990).
The
Callander & Oban Railway. (Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David St. John
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(Canadian National Railways), G. R. Stevens (1973). History of
the Canadian National Railways. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 538 p.).
Canadian National Railways--History; Railroads--Canada--History.
(Canadian National Railways), Joseph Schull (1979).
The Great Scot: A Biography of Donald Gordon. (Montreal, QU:
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Capitalists and financiers--Canada--Biography.
(Canadian National Railways), Donald MacKay (1992).
The People's
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Railroads--Canada--History.
(Canadian Northern Railway), T.D. Regehr (1976). The Canadian
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(Toronto, ON: Macmillan of Canada, 543 p.). Canadian Northern Railway
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(Canadian Northern Railway), Rae B. Fleming (1991).
The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923.
(Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 301 p.). Mackenzie, William, Sir,
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(Canadian Pacific -formed in 1881), Walter Vaughan (1920). The
Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne. (New York, NY: Century,
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(Canadian Pacific), J.H.E. Secretan (1924).
Canada's Great
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(Canadian Pacific), Alan Sullivan (1935). The Great Divide: A
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(Canadian Pacific), John Murray Gibbon (1935).
Steel of Empire:
The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific, the Northwest Passage of
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Pacific Railway Company; Canada -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), Peter Turner Bone (1947).
When the Steel Went
Through, Reminiscences of a Railroad Pioneer. (Toronto, ON:
Macmillan Co. of Canada, 180 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company;
Northwest, Canadian -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), D. H. Miller-Barstow. (1951).
Beatty of the C.P.R.: A Biography. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 187 p.).
Beatty, Edward Wentworth, Sir, 1878-1943; Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
(Canadian Pacific), Leonard Bertram Irwin (1969).
Pacific Railways and Nationalism in the Canadian-American Northwest,
1845-1873. (New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 246 p.). Canadian
Pacific Railway Company; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Pacific
railroads -- Early projects; Railroads and state -- Canada; Northwest,
Canadian.
(Canadian Pacific), Pierre Berton (1970).
The National Dream: The
Great Railway, 1871-1881. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 439
p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads and state -- Canada;
Canada -- History -- 1867-1914.
--- (1971).
The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885.
(Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 478 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway
Company.
(Canadian Pacific), Harold A. Innis (1971).
A History of the
Canadian Pacific Railway. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press,
365 p. [orig. pub. 1923]). Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), Illustrated, Written and Edited by Pierre Berton;
designed by Frank Newfeld (1972).
The Great Railway. (Toronto,
ON: McClelland and Stewart, 336 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
(Canadian Pacific), Robert Chodos. (1973).
The CPR: A Century of
Corporate Welfare. (Toronto, ON: J. Lewis & Samuel, 178 p.).
Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
(Canadian Pacific), Omer Lavallée (1974).
Van Horne's Road: An
Illustrated Account of the Construction and First Years of Operation of
the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Railway. (Toronto, ON:
Railfare Enterprises, 304 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company --
History; Railroads -- Canada -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), W. Kaye Lamb (1977).
History of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 491 p.). Canadian Pacific
Railway Company -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), Susan Goldenberg (1983).
Canadian Pacific: A
Portrait of Power. (New York, NY: Facts on File, 316 p.). Canadian
Pacific Limited.
(Canadian Pacific), Bill McKee and Georgeen Klassen (1983).
Trail
of Iron: The CPR and the Birth of the West, 1880-1930. (Vancouver,
BC: Glenbow-Alberta Institute in association with Douglas & McIntyre,
192 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History; Canada -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), Edited by Hugh A. Dempsey (1984).
The CPR
West: The Iron Road and the Making of a Nation. (Vancouver, BC:
Douglas & McIntyre, 333 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company --
History; Canada, Western -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), David Cruise and Alison Griffiths (1988).
Lords of the Line. (Markham, ON: Viking, 486 p.). Canadian Pacific
Railway Company -- History; Railroads -- Canada -- History.
(Canadian Pacific), John A. Eagle (1989).
The Canadian Pacific
Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. (Kingston,
ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 325 p.). Canadian Pacific Railway
Company -- History; Railroads -- Canada, Western -- History; Canada,
Western -- Economic policy; Canada, Western -- Economic conditions;
Northwest, Canadian -- Economic policy; Northwest, Canadian -- Economic
conditions.
(Canadian Pacific), Valerie Knowles (2004).
From Telegrapher to
Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne. (Tonawanda, NY: Dundurn
Press, 501 p.). Van Horne, William Cornelius, Sir, 1843-1915; Canadian
Pacific Railway Company--Presidents--Biography;
Railroads--Canada--History; Railroads--Cuba--History; Capitalists and
financiers--Canada--Biography; Art--Collectors and
collecting--Canada--Biography.
(Canadian Pacific), Tom Murray (2006).
Canadian Pacific Railway. (St. Paul, MN: MBI Pub. Co., 160
p.). Canadian Pacific Railway Company--History; Railroads--Canada,
Western--History. National
icon began as a railway, became a global transportation system,
evolved into a diversified industrial conglomerate.
(Canadian National Railways), G. R. Stevens (1973).
History of
the Canadian National Railways. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 538 p.).
Canadian National Railways--History; Railroads--Canada--History.
(Central of Georgia Railway), Jackson McQuigg, Tammy Galloway and
Scott McIntosh for the Atlanta History Center (2003).
Central of Georgia Railway. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 128 p.
[orig. pub. 1998]). Central of Georgia Railway; Railroads--Georgia.
Connected Savannah to interior of
state, boosted coastal city's seaport; 1843 - extended to outskirts of Macon;
1982 - acquired by Southern Railway.
(Central Pacific), Cerinda W. Evans (1954).
Collis Potter Huntington. (Newport News, VA: Mariners’ Museum, 2
vols., 775 p.). Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900.
(Central Pacific), Helen Hinckley (1969).
Rails from the West; A
Biography of Theodore D. Judah. (San Marino, CA: Golden West Books,
207 p.). Judah, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehone), 1826-1863; Central
Pacific Railroad Company.
(Central Pacific), John J. Stewart. (1969).
The Iron Trail to the
Golden Spike. (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 297 p.).
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
(Central Pacific), David Lavender (1970).
The Great Persuader.
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 444 p.). Huntington, Collis Potter,
1821-1900.
(Central Pacific), Oscar Lewis (1981).
The Big Four: The Story of
Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the
Central Pacific. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 418 p. [orig. pub.
1938]). Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900; Stanford, Leland,
1824-1893; Hopkins, Mark 1813-1878; Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888; Central
Pacific Railroad Company--History; Capitalists and financiers--United
States--Biography.
(Central Pacific), Mead B. Kibbey (1996).
The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist.
(Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 238 p.). Hart,
Alfred A., 1816-1908; Central Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial
works; Photographers--United States--Biography.
(Central Pacific), Richard Rayner (2008).
The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California. (New
York, NY: Norton, 224 p.). Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900;
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893; Hopkins, Mark, 1813-1878; Crocker,
Charles, 1822-1888; Central Pacific Railroad Company--History;
Railroads--United States--History; Capitalists and financiers--United
States--Biography; California--History.
Collis
Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins ("The Big
Four", "The Associates") - rose from middle-class merchants in
Sacramento, CA to force behind transcontinental railroad; became very
wealthy; epic drive for money.
(Central Railroad of New Jersey), Elaine Anderson (1984).
The
Central Railroad of New Jersey's First 100 Years, 1849-1949: A
Historical Survey. (Easton, PA: Center for Canal History and
Technology, 238 p.). Central Railroad of New Jersey-History.
(C & O), Charles Wilson Turner (1956).
Chessie's Road.
(Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 286 p.). Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Company.
(Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway), Richard R. Wallin, Paul H.
Stringham, John Szwajkart (1979).
Chicago & Illinois Midland. (San Marino, CA: Golden West Books,
240 p.). Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway--History.
(Chicago and North Western Railway Company), Robert J. Casey and W.A.S. Douglas (1948).
Pioneer
Railroad: The Story of the Chicago and North Western System. (New
York, NY: Whittley House, 334 p.). Chicago and North Western Railway
Company.
(Chicago and North Western Railway Company), H. Roger Grant (1996).
The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway
System. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 292
p.). Chicago and North Western Transportation Company--History;
Railroads--Illinois--History.
(Chicago and North Western Railway Company), P.L. Behrens (2002).
Steam Trains to Geneva Lake: C & NW’s Elgin-Williams Bay Branch.
(Hebron, IL: P.L. Behrens, 156 p.). Chicago and North Western Railway
Company--History; Railroads--Illinois--History;
Railroads--Wisconsin--History; Elgin (Ill.)--History; Williams Bay
(Wis.)--History; Fontana (Wis.)--History; Lake Geneva (Wis.)--History.
(Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad), John Tettemer O'Neil
(1956). Policy Formation in Railroad Finance; Refinancing the
Burlington. 1936-1945. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 234
p.). Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company; Railroads--United
States--Finance--Case studies.
(Chicago Great Western Railroad), H. Roger Grant (1984).
The Corn
Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company.
(Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 231 p.). Chicago Great
Western Railroad -- History.
(Chicago Great Western Railroad Company), David J. Fiore Sr. (2006).
The Chicago Great Western Railway. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 128
p.). Member of the Chicago and North Western Historical Society. Chicago
Great Western Railway Company (1892-1909)--Pictorial works; Chicago
Great Western Railroad Company--Pictorial works; Chicago Great Western
Railway Company (1940-1968)--Pictorial works; Railroads--Middle
West--Pictorial works. Territory served by much larger
systems, CGW able to retain its share of passenger, freight
business for 83 years through aggressive management, dedicated
employees, innovations, efficient operations.
(Chicago, Milwaukee), John W. Cary (1981). The Organization and
History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. (New
York, NY: Arno Press, 392 p. [orig. pub. 1893]). Chicago, Milwaukee, and
St. Paul Railway Company--History.
(Chicago, Milwaukee), Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. (1999).
The
Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad: An Empire in the Making, 1862-1879. (Dekalb,
IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 178 p.). Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
Paul and Pacific Railroad Company--History--19th century.
(Chicago, Milwaukee), August Derleth; foreword by H. Roger Grant
(2002).
The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years. (Iowa City,
IA: University of Iowa Press, 330 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company--History;
Railroads--United States--History.
(Chicago, Milwaukee), Tom Murray (2005).
The Milwaukee Road. (St. Paul, MN: MBI Pub. Co., 160 p.).
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company--History;
Railroads--United States--History.
From the railroad’s
late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo
Line in 1985.
(Chicago Milwaukee), Stan Johnson (2007).
The Milwaukee Road's Western Extension: The Building of a
Transcontinental Railroad. (Coeur d'Alene, ID: Museum of North
Idaho Publications, 548 p.). Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
Railroad Company--History--19th century; Railroads--United
States--History. 1905 - Milwaukee Road decided to
build to the Pacific Coast; estimated to cost about $ 60 million (ran
over $ 220 million, electrification added another $ 23 million); 1925 -
went bankrupt.
(Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad), Ed. Ronald D. Cohen
and Stephen G. McShane; foreword by Victor Margolin (1998).
Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore
and South Bend Railroad. (Bloomington, IN: Quarry Books, 139
p.). Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad--History;
Railroads--Illinois--Chicago Region--History.
(CNW), Robert J. Casey and W.A.S. Douglas (1948).
Pioneer
Railroad: The Story of the Chicago and North Western System. (New
York, NY: Whittley House, 334 p.). Chicago and North Western Railway
Company.
(Cincinnati Southern Railway), Henry Paine Boyden (1901). The
Beginnings of the Cincinnati Southern Railway; A Sketch of the Years,
1869-1878. (Cincinnati, OH: The R. Clarke Co., 122 p.). Cincinnati
Southern Railway Company.
(Cincinnati Southern Railway), Charles Gilbert Hall (1902). The
Cincinnati Southern railway; A History. (Cincinnati, OH: The
McDonald Press, 231 p.). Cincinnati Southern Railway.
(Cincinnati Southern Railway), Edward Alexander Ferguson (1905).
Founding of the Cincinnati Southern Railway with an Autobiographical
Sketch. (Cincinnati, OH: The R. Clarke Co., 163 p.). Cincinnati
Southern Railway.
(Colorado and Southern), Richard C. Overton (1953).
Gulf to
Rockies; the Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and
Southern Railways, 1861-1898. (Austin, TX: University of Texas
Press, 410 p.). Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company; Colorado
and Southern Railway.
(Conrail), Richard Saunders (1978).
The Railroad Mergers and the
Coming of Conrail. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 389 p.).
ConRail; Railroads--United States--Mergers.
(CSX Transportation), Jerry Taylor & Ray Poteat (2008).
The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century. (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 165 p.). operating official of several
railroads; retired railroader. Clinchfield Railroad; CSX
Transportation (Firm); Railroads --Appalachian Region.
Mile-by-mile
trip through tunnels, over bridges of Clinchfield's route; finished in
1915; one of most scenic routes in country, most
rugged mountain barriers in eastern United States; built by more than
3,000 laborers, construction standards unheard of at time;
engineers have yet to enlarge its tunnels, strengthen its bridges.
(Cyprus Government Railway), B. S. Turner (1979).
The Story of the Cyprus Government Railway. (London, UK:
Mechanical Engineering Publications, 178 p.). Kypriakos Kyverne¯tikos
Side¯rodromos--History; Railroads--Cyprus--History--20th century.
(Delaware and Hudson), Delaware and Hudson Company (1925). A
Century of Progress, History of the Delaware and Hudson Company,
1823-1923. (Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, printers, 755 p.).
Delaware and Hudson Company; Railroads -- United States -- History;
Transportation -- United States -- History.
(Delaware, Lackawanna), Robert J. Casey and W. A. S. Douglas (1951).
The Lackawanna Story; The First Hundred Years of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 223
p.). Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company.
(Dells & Northeastern Railway), Harvey Huston (1972).
The Roddis Line; The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co. Railroad and the Dells &
Northeastern Railway. (Winnetka, IL: Harvey Huston, 150 p.).
Dells & Northeastern Railway; Roddis Plywood Corporation; Logging
railroads--Wisconsin; Lumbering--Wisconsin.
(Denver and Rio Grande), Robert G. Athearn (1962).
Rebel of the
Rockies; A History of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 395 p.). Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad Company; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
(Denver and Rio Grande), John S. Fisher; with a chapter on General
Palmer's work in Mexico by Chase Mellen (1981).
A Builder of the
West: The Life of General William Jackson Palmer. (New York, NY:
Arno Press, 332 p. [orig. pub. 1939]). Palmer, William Jackson,
1836-1909; Railroads--United States--Employees--Biography;
Railroads--Mexico--Employees--Biography.
(East Branch & Lincoln Railroad Company), Bill Gove (1998). J.E.
Henry's Logging Railroads: The History of the East Branch & Lincoln and
the Zealand Valley Railroads. (Littleton, NH: Bondcliff Books,
187 p.). Henry, James E., 1831-1912; Zealand Valley Railroad Company;
East Branch & Lincoln Railroad Company; Logging railroads--New
Hampshire--History; Logging--New Hampshire.
(Erie Lackawanna), H. Roger Grant (1994).
Erie Lackawanna: Death
of an American Railroad, 1938-1992. (Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 284 p.). Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company --
Management -- History.; Erie Lackawanna Railway Company -- Management
-- History; Erie Lackawanna Inc. -- Management -- History; ConRail --
Management -- History; Railroads -- Northeastern States -- Management
-- History.
(Erie Railroad Company), Edward Harold Mott (1908).
Between the
Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie. (New York, NY: Ticker, 524
p. [orig. pub. 1899]). Erie Railroad Company.
(Erie Railroad Company), Robert H. Fuller (1928).
Jubilee Jim;
The Life of Colonel
James Fisk, Jr. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 566 p.). Fisk, James,
1835-1872.
(Erie Railroad Company), Edward Hungerford (1946). Men of Erie, a Story of Human
Effort. (New York, NY: Random House, 346 p.). Erie Railroad.
(Erie Railroad Company, W. A. Swanberg (1959).
Jim Fisk; The Career of an
Improbable Rascal. (New York, NY: Scribner, 310 p.). Fisk, James,
1835-1872.
(Erie Railroad Company - President of Erie Railroad in 1872), Julius Grodinsky (1981).
Jay Gould, His Business Career,
1867-1892. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 627 p. [orig. pub. 1957]).
Gould, Jay, 1836-1892; Capitalists and financiers--United
States--Biography; Railroads--United States--History.
(Erie Railroad Company), R. W. McAlpine (1981). The Life and Times of Col. James
Fisk, Jr. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 504 p.). Fisk, James,
1835-1872; Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
(Erie Railroad Company), John Stuart Ogilvie (1981). Life and Death of Jay Gould,
and How He Made His Millions. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 208 p.x).
Gould, Jay, 1836-1892; Capitalists and financiers--United
States--Biography; United States--Biography.
(Erie Railroad Company), Marshall P. Stafford (1981).
The Life of James Fisk, Jr.:
A Full and Accurate Narrative of all the Enterprises in Which He Was
Engaged. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 300 p. [orig. pub. 1871]). Fisk,
James, 1835-1872; United States--Biography.
(Erie Railroad Company), Maury Klein (1986).
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 595 p.). Gould, Jay,
1836-1892; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Capitalists and
financiers--United States--Biography; Railroads--United States--History.
(Erie Railroad Company), John Steele Gordon (1988).
The Scarlet
Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
Erie Railway Wars, and the Birth of Wall Street. (New York, NY:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 421 p.). New York Stock Exchange--History--19th
century; Erie Railway--History--19th century; Wall Street--History--19th
century; Capitalists and financiers--United States--History--19th
century.
(Erie Railroad Company), Aileen Sallom Freeman (1998).
Canadensis.
(Paupack, PA: Fosi, 315 p.). Gould, Jay, 1836-1892; Erie Railroad
Company--History; Erie Railway--History; Canadensis (Pa.)--History.
(Ferrocarril Sud Pacifico de Mexico), Daniel Lewis (2007).
Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951.
(Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 192 p.). Dibner Senior
Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington
Library in San Marino, California. Ferrocarril Sud Pacifico de
Mexico--History; Railroads--Mexico--History.
Southern Pacific of
Mexico operated between 1898 - 1951; transported millions of
passengers, tons of freight, rarely turned a profit; decades-long dance between oblivious U.S.
entrepreneurs, wary Mexican officials.
(Florida East Coast Railway), Les Standiford (2002).
Last Train
to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the
Railroad That Crossed the Ocean. (New York, NY: Crown, 272 p.).
Flagler, Henry Morrison, 1830-1913; Florida East Coast
Railway--History.; Railroads--Florida--History.
(GATX), Ralph C. Epstein (1981).
GATX, A History of the General
American Transportation Corporation, 1898-1948. (New York, NY:
Arno Press, 198 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). General American Transportation
Corporation--History; Railroads--United States--Freight-cars--History.
(Georgia and Florida Railroad Co.), H. Roger Grant (2006).
Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad.
(DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 239 p.). Kathryn and
Calhoun Lemon Professorof History & Geography (Clemson University).
Georgia and Florida Railroad Co.--History.
57-year lifespan - did much to bring about
agricultural diversification, relative prosperity in wiregrass region of
southern Georgia, northern Florida.
(German National Railway), Alfred C. Mierzejewski (1999).
The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National
Railway, Volume 1, 1920-1932. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 512 p.). Associate Professor of Modern European
History (Athens State University in Alabama). Deutsche Reichsbahn
(Germany)--History--20th century; Railroads and
state--Germany--History--20th century.
Largest
enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945.
(German National Railway), Alfred C. Mierzejewski (2000).
The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National
Railway, Volume 2, 1933-1945. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 280 p.). Associate Professor of Modern European
History (Athens State University in Alabama). Deutsche Reichsbahn
(Germany)--History--20th century; Railroads and
state--Germany--History--20th century.
National
Railway under Hitler's regime.
(Georgia and Florida Railroad Co.), H. Roger Grant (2006).
Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad.
(DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 239 p.). Kathryn and
Calhoun Lemon Professor of History & Geography (Clemson University).
Georgia and Florida Railroad Co.--History.
57-year lifespan - G&F did much
for
agricultural diversification, relative prosperity in wiregrass region of
southern Georgia, northern Florida.
(Grand Trunk), Henry Almon Lovett (1981).
Canada and the Grand
Trunk, 1829-1924. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 241 p. [orig. pub.
1924). Grand Trunk Railway of Canada--History;
Railroads--Canada--History.
(Grand Trunk), Frederick A. Talbot (1981).
The Making of a Great
Canadian Railway. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 349 p. [orig. pub.
1912]). Grand Trunk Pacific Railway--History.
(Grand Trunk), Don L. Hofsommer (1995).
Grand Trunk Corporation:
Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971-1992. (East
Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 219 p.). Grand Trunk
Corporation; Canadian National Railways; Railroads--United States.
(Great Canadian Railtour Company), Paul Grescoe (2000).
Trip of a Lifetime: The Making of the Rocky Mountaineer.
(Vancouver, BC: Hurricane Books, 256 p.). Rocky Mountaineer Railtours--History;
Railroad travel--British Columbia--History; Railroad
travel--Alberta--History; Railroads--British Columbia--History;
Railroads--Alberta--History.
(Great Northern), James J. Hill (1910).
Highways of Progress. (New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company,
353 p.). Natural resources--United States; Railroads--United States;
United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
(Great Northern), Joseph Gilpin Pyle, authorized (1917).
The Life
of James J. Hill. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 2 Vols.).
Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916.
(Great Northern), Albro Martin (1976).
James J. Hill and the
Opening of the Northwest. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press,
676 p.). Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916; Great Northern Railway;
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
(Great Northern), Ralph W. Hidy (1988).
The Great Northern
Railway : A History. ( Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press,
360 p.). Great Northern Railway (U.S.)--History.
(Great Northern), Michael P. Malone (1996).
James J. Hill:
Empire Builder of the Northwest. (Norman, OK: University of
Oklahoma Press, 306 p.). Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916; Hill, James
Jerome, 1838-1916; Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.); Great
Northern Railway (U.S.); Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
(Great Western Bengal Railway Company), Blair B. Kling (1976).
Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in
Eastern India. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
276 p.). Tagore, Dwarkanath, 1794-1846;
Businesspeople--Bengal--Biography; Entrepreneurship; Bengal
(India)--Economic conditions.
(Great Western Railway - Great Britain), General Editors, Patrick
Whitehouse & David St John Thomas; foreword by Bill Bradshaw (1984).
The Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years. (Newton Abbot,
UK: David & Charles, 207 p.). Great Western Railway (Great Britain);
England Railways British Rail Western Region, to 1983.
(Hocking Valley Railway), Edward H. Miller; foreword by Thomas W.
Dixon, Jr.; historical introduction by H. Roger Grant (2007).
The Hocking Valley Railway. (Athens, OH: Ohio University
Press, 312 p.). Retired from Hocking Valley Successor, CSX. Hocking
Valley Railway--History; Hocking River Valley (Ohio)--History.
Once
Ohio's longest rail line, began in 1867 to haul coal from Athens to Columbus;
345-mile railway, from Lake Erie port of Toledo through Columbus, to
Ohio River port of Pomeroy.
(Hudson Bay Railway), Howard A. Fleming (1957).
Canada's Arctic Outlet; A History of the Hudson Bay Railway.
(Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 129 p.). Hudson Bay Railway.
(Illinois Central), Howard Gray Brownson (1915). History of the
Illinois Central Railroad to 1870. (Urbana, IL: University of
Illinois, 182 p.). Illinois Central Railroad.
(Illinois Central Railroad), Paul Wallace Gates (1934).
The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work. (New
York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corp., 374 p.). Illinois Central Railroad
Company; Railroad land grants -- Illinois; Illinois -- History.
(Illinois Central), Carlton Jonathan Corliss (1950).
Main Line of
Mid-America; The Story of the Illinois Central. (New York, NY:
Creative Age Press, 490 p.). Illinois Central Railroad Company.
(Illinois Central), John F. Stover (1975).
History of the Illinois
Central Railroad. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 575 p.). Illinois
Central Railroad.
(Illinois Central), Robert Mize Sutton (1981).
The Illinois
Central Railroad in Peace and War, 1858-1868. (New York, NY: Arno
Press, 240 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). Illinois Central Railroad--History.
(Indiana Railroad), Christopher Rund (2006).
The Indiana Rail Road Company: America’s New Regional Railroad.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 253 p.). Creative
Director, Hirons & Company. Indiana Railroad;
Railroads--Indiana--History. Deregulated independent short line, regional railroad success
story.
(Iowa Central Railway), Don L. Hofsommer (2005).
The Hook & Eye: A History of the Iowa Central Railway.
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 160 p.). Professor of
History (St. Cloud State University). Iowa Central Railway--History.
(Jewitt Car Company), Lawrence A. Brough and James H. Graebner
(2004).
From Small Town to Downtown: A History of the Jewett Car
Company, 1893-1919. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 254
p). Jewett Car Company--History; Railroads--Cars--History.
(Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad Company), Lee A. Dew
(1968).
The JLC&E; The History of an Arkansas Railroad. (State
University, AR: Arkansas State University Press, 121 p.). Jonesboro,
Lake City and Eastern Railroad Company.
(Kansas City Southern), Keith L. Bryant, Jr.(1971).
Arthur E. Stilwell,
Promoter with a Hunch. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University
Press, 256 p.). Stilwell, Arthur Edward, 1861-1928. Up and down career
of a railroad visionary. Port Author, TX named after Stilwell.
(Kansas Pacific), William Robinson Petrowski (1981).
The Kansas
Pacific: A Study in Railroad Promotion. (New York, NY: Arno Press,
281 p. [orig. pub. 1966]). Kansas Pacific Railway--History.
(Kaslo & Slocan Railway), Robert D. Turner and David S. Wilkie
(1994).
The Skyline Limited: The Kaslo and Slocan Railway: An
Illustrated History of Narrow Gauge Railroading and Sternwheelers in the
Kootenays. (Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 296 p.). Kaslo & Slocan
Railway--History; Kaslo & Slocan--History--Pictorial works; Narrow gauge
railroads--British Columbia--History; Narrow gauge railroads--British
Columbia--History--Pictorial works.
(Lake Shore Electric Railway Company), Harry Christiansen (1978).
New Lake Shore Electric. (Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical
Society, 199 p.). Lake Shore Electric Railway--History.
(Lake Shore Electric Railway Company), Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. and
Robert S. Korach (2000).
The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 297 p.). Lake Shore Electric
Railway Company; Electric railroads--Ohio--History.
(Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company), John Marshall
(1969-1972).
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. (Newton Abbot, UK: David &
Charles, 3 vols.). Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.
(Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company), Seymour Broadbridge
(1970).
Studies in Railway Expansion and the Capital Market in England,
1825-1873. (London, UK: Cass, 215 p.). Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company; Railroads -- Great Britain -- Finance --
History.
(Lehigh Valley Railroad), Robert F. Archer (1977).
The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad: "The Route of the Black
Diamond". (Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 371 p.). Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
(London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company), Patrick Whitehouse
and David St John Thomas (1987).
LMS 150: The London Midland & Scottish Railway: A Century and a Half
of Progress. (Newton Abbott, UK: David & Charles, 208 p.).
London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company -- History; Railroads --
Great Britain -- History; Great Britain Railways.
(London and North Eastern Railway), Patrick Whitehouse & David St
John Thomas (2002).
LNER 150: The London and North Eastern Railway: A Century and a Half
of Progress. (Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 208 p.).
London and North Eastern Railway -- History; Railroads -- Great
Britain -- History.
(London & North Western), Terence R. Gourvish (1972).
Mark
Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of
Management. (Leicester, UK: University of Leicester, 319 p.).
Huish, Mark, 1808-1867; London and North-Western Railway;
Railroads--Management--Case studies.
(Long Island Railroad), Ron Ziel and George H. Foster (1975).
Steel Rails to the Sunrise. (New York, NY: Hawthorn Books, 320
p.). Long Island Railroad Company.
(Long Island Railroad), Ron Ziel (1984). The Pennsy Era on Long
Island. (Bridgehampton, NY: Sunrise Special, 115 p.). Long Island
Railroad Company; Pennsylvania Railroad; Locomotives--New York (State).
(Long Island Railroad), Stan Fischler (2007).
Long Island Rail Road. (St. Paul, MN: MBI, 160 p.). Former
Color Analyst for the New York Islanders. Long Island Railroad
Company; Railroads--New York (State)--New York.
1832 - origins with Brooklyn & Jamaica Railroad;
1834 - chartered; early attempts to reach Boston via Long Island, ferry
service to Connecticut; 1900 - acquired by Pennsylvania Railroad; Penn Station
constructed, tunnels into Manhattan built, LIRR's diesel, electric rolling stock and passenger
cars manufactured.
(Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad), John W. Robinson (1978).
Southern California’s First Railroad: The Los Angeles & San Pedro
Railroad, 1869-1873. (Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 111
p.). Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad--History.
October, 1869 - began operations as LA's first rail line; financed
through sale of $150,000 in county bonds, $75,000 in city bonds; depot
located on corner of Commercial and Alameda Streets; November 1872 -
acquired by Southern Pacific.
(Louisiana and Arkansas Railway), James R. Fair (1997).
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: The story of a Regional Line.
(DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 158 p.). Louisiana
and Arkansas Railway Co.; Railroads--Louisiana; Railroads--Texas.
(Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company), James P.
Baughman (1968).
Charles Morgan and the Development of Southern
Transportation. (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 302
p.). Morgan, Charles, 1795-1878; Transportation--Southern
States--History.
(Louisville & Nashville Railroad), Kincaid A Herr (1964).
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963. (Louisville,
KY: The Company, 402 p.). Louisville & Nashville Railroda -- History.
(Louisville & Nashville), Maury Klein (1972).
History of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 572
p.). Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company--History.
(Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad), Hugh A. Hornstein (2004).
The Haywire: A Brief History of the Manistique and Lake Superior
Railroad. (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press,
122 p.). Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad Company--History;
Railroads--Michigan--History.
(Marietta and Cincinnati), John Pixton (1966). The Marietta and
Cincinnati Railroad, 1845-1883; A Case Study in American Railroad
Economics. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 94 p.). Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889; Marietta and
Cincinnati Railroad.
(Marietta and Cincinnati), John R. Grabb (1989). The Marietta &
Cincinnati Railroad and Its Successor, the Baltimore & Ohio: A Study of
This Once Great Route across Ohio. (Cincinnati, OH: J. R. Grabb, 152
p.). Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company; Railroads--Ohio.
(Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company), George W. Hilton
(1999).
The Ma & Pa: A History of the Maryland & Pennsylvania
Railroad. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 228 p.
[2nd rev. ed.]). Professor Emeritus of Economics (UCLA). Maryland and
Pennsylvania Railroad Company--History.
(McCloud River Railroad Company), Robert M. Hanft (1971).
Pine Across the Mountain; California’s McCloud River Railroad.
(San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 224 p.). Professor of Business
Administration (California State University, Chico). McCloud River
Railroad Company.
(Mexico Northwestern Railway), J. F. Hulse (1986).
Railroads &
Revolutions: The Story of Roy Hoard. (El Paso, TX: Mangan Books,
126 p.). Hoard, Louis Roy, 1886-1973; Mexico Northwestern Railway
Company; Madera Company; Railroads--Mexico--Employees--Biography;
Businesspeople--Mexico--Biography.
(Michigan Central Railroad), Henry Greenleaf Pearson (1911).
An American Railroad
builder, John Murray Forbes. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 196
p.). Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898; Railroads -- United States.
(Michigan Central Railroad), Charles Hirschfeld (1953). The
Great Railroad Conspiracy; The Social History of a Railroad War.
(East Lansing, MI: Michigan State College Press, 128 p.). Michigan
Central Railroad Company; Railroads--Michigan--History. 1846 - John
Murray Forbes acquired control of the moribund Michigan Central
Railroad, a state-owned project that typified the internal improvement
mania that had arisen before the Panic of 1837.
(Michigan Central Railroad), Edited by Sarah Forbes Hughes (1981).
Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 2
vols. [orig. pub. 1900]). Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898;
Railroads--United States--History; Politicians--United
States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; United
States--Politics and government--1849-1877; United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Finance; United States--Commerce;
Milton (Mass.); Naushon Island (Mass.).
(Michigan Central Railroad), John Lauritz Larson, Jr.; foreword by Alfred D. Chandler
(1984).
Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western
Development in America's Railway Age. (Cambridge, MA: Division of
Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard
University, 257 p. [expanded in 2001 version]). Associate Professor of
History (Purdue). Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898; Railroads -- United
States -- Biography; Businessmen -- United States -- Biography;
Railroads -- United States -- History.
(Michigan Central Railroad), William Taylor, Jr. (1995). An
American Colossus: A Small Town, a River and a Railroad Yard.
(Niles, MI: Niles Railroad Historical Assoc., 352 p.). Michigan Central
Railroad Company--History; Railroads--Michigan--Niles--History; Niles
(Mich.)--History; Niles (Mich.)--Social life and customs. 1846 - John
Murray Forbes acquired control of the moribund Michigan Central
Railroad, a state-owned project that typified the internal improvement
mania that had arisen before the Panic of 1837.
(Midland Railway), Richard S. Lambert ... (1934). The Railway
King, 1800-1871; A Study of George Hudson and the Business Morals of
His Time. (London, UK: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 320 p.). Hudson,
George, 1800-1871; Railroads--Great Britain--History.
(Midland Railway), Brian Bailey (1995).
George Hudson: The Rise
and Fall of the Railway King. (Phoenix Mill, Far Thrupp, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, UK: Alan Sutton Pub., 186 p.). Hudson, George,
1800-1871; Railroads--Great Britain--Biography; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography; Railroads--Great Britain--History.
(Midland Railway), Robert Beaumont (2002).
The Railway King: A
Biography of George Hudson. (London, UK: Review, 274 p.). Hudson,
George, 1800-1871; Businesspeople--Great Britain--Biography;
Railroads--England--History--19th century.
(Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway), Don L. Hofsommer (2005).
The Tootin' Louie: A History of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 396 p.). Professor of
History (St. Cloud State University). Minneapolis & St. Louis
Railway--History.
(Missouri Pacific), H. Craig Miner (1983).
The Rebirth of the
Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M
University Press, 236 p.). Missouri Pacific Railroad Company--History.
(Missouri-Kansas-Texas), Donovan L. Hofsommer; foreword by John W.
Barriger; introduction by Fred W. Frailey (1999).
Katy Northwest:
The Story of a Branch Line Railroad. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 305 p. [orig. pub. 1976]). Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Railroad; Railroads--United States--Branch lines--History; Southwest,
Old--History.
(Missouri-Kansas-Texas), V.V. Masterson; with a new foreword by
Donovan L. Hofsommer (1988).
The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier.
(Clumbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 312 p. [orig. pub. 1952]).
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, Old; Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Railroad--History; Southwest, Old--History.
(Mount Low Railway), Charles Seims (1976).
Mount Lowe, The Railway in the Clouds. (San Marino, CA: Golden
West Books, 234 p.). Mount Lowe Railway; Electric railroads--California.
--- (1999). Last Days of Mount Lowe. (Los Angeles, CA: Pacific
Electric Railway Historical Society, 60 p.). Mount Lowe Railway;
Electric railroads--California.
(Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad Co.), Theodore G. Wurm and
Alvin C. Graves (1983).
The Crookedest Railroad in the World; A History of the Mt. Tamalpais and
Muir Woods Railroad of California. (Glendale, CA: Trans-Anglo
Books, 135 p. [rev. end enl. ed.]). Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods
Railroad Co.
(Nashua and Lowell), Richard K. Darr (1976). A History of the
Nashua and Lowell Rail-Road Corporation, 1835-1880. (New York, NY:
Arno Press, 389 p. (Originally presented as the author's thesis,
University of Nebraska, 1956)). Nashua and Lowell Railroad.
(Newfoundland Railway Company), A.R. Penney (1988).
A History of the Newfoundland Railway. (St. John's, Nfld.: H.
Cuff Publications, v. 1. 1881-1923 -- v. 2. 1923-1988). Newfoundland
Railway Company -- History; Railroads -- Newfoundland and Labrador --
History.
(Newfoundland Railway Company), Clayton D. Cook (1989).
The End of the Line: the Newfoundland Railway in Pictures.
(St. John's, Nfld.: Harry Cuff Publications, 133 p.). Newfoundland
Railway Company -- History -- Pictorial works; Railroads --
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- Pictorial works.
(Newfoundland Railway), Les Harding (2008). The Newfoundland
Railway, 1898-1969: A History. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland &
Company, 230 p.). Former Academic Librarian. Newfoundland Railway
Company --History; Railroads --Newfoundland and Labrador --History.
Building of narrow-gauge trans-island railway in
19th century Newfoundland was reckless, desperate experiment;
began operation on June 29, 1898, operated relatively successfully for
well over half century.
(New York Central), Frank Walker Stevens (1926).
The Beginnings of the New York Central Railroad; A History.
(New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 408 p.). New York Central Railroad
Company -- History; New York central railroad company (1853-1869);
Railroads -- New York (State) -- History.
(New York Central), Alvin F. Harlow (1947).
The Road of the
Century; The Story of the New York Central. (New York, NY:
Creative Age Press, 447 p.). New York Central Railroad.
(New York Central), Edward Hungerford (1976).
Men and Iron: The
History of New York Central. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 424 p.
[Reprint of 1938 ed.]). New York Central Railroad--History;
Railroads--New York (State)--History.
(New York Central), Irene D. Neu (1977).
Erastus Corning, Merchant and Financier, 1794-1872. (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 212 p. [orig. pub. 1960]). Corning, Erastus, 1794-1872;
Businesspeople --United States --Biography.
Creator, first president
of New York Central Railroad; pattern of domestic mercantile activity
in early, middle years of 19th century.
(New York Central), Edward J. Renehan Jr. (2007).
Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. (New York, NY:
Basic Books, 364 p.). Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877;
Businessmen--United States--Biography; Railroads--United
States--History. Initial fortune building
ferry, cargo routes for sailing vessels; moved into steamboats,
railroads - New York Central; established nation's first major
integrated rail system, linked New York with Boston, Montreal,
Chicago, St. Louis; played a key role in establishing New York as
financial center of United States.
New York Central - 1853
(http://voteview.org/images/NYC1853.gif)
(New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad), Taylor Hampton (1947).
The Nickel Plate Road: The History of a Great Railroad.
(Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co., 366 p.). New York, Chicago & St. Louis
Railroad.
(New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.), John A. Rehor (1967).
The Nickel Plate Story. (Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Pub. Co.,,
483 p.). New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway Company; New York,
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad; New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.
(New York Chicago & St. Louis Railroad), Eric E. Hirsimaki (1989).
The Nickel Plate Years. (N. Olmsted, OH: Mileposts, 144 p.).
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.
(New York, New Haven and Hartford), John L. Weller (1969).
The
New Haven Railroad: Its Rise and Fall. (New York, NY: Hastings
House, 248 p.). New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
(New York, New Haven and Hartford), George H. Foster & Peter C. Weiglin (1989).
Splendor Sailed the Sound: The New Haven Railroad and
the Fall River Line. (San Mateo, CA: Potentials Group, 384 p.). Fall
River Line--History; New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad
Company--History.
(New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad), Robert E. Mohowski
(2003).
The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 205 p.). New York,
Susquehanna and Western Railroad--History.
(New York Westchester & Boston Railway), Herbert H.
Harwood, Jr. (2008).
The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway: J.P.
Morgan’s Magnificent Mistake. (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 155 p.). Former
Executive, Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913; New
York, Westchester & Boston Railway --History;
Railroads --New York (State) --History.
Opened in 1912 as high-speed,
high-capacity electric line designed to develop, serve
upper-income communities in one of New York City's
most rapidly growing suburban areas; financed by J.
Pierpont Morgan; cost top construct - $2 million a
mile (almost $40 million a mile in 2005 dollars);
designed to carry more than 100,000 people a day
efficiently and comfortably, ran through virtually
undeveloped territory, duplicated line of parent
company that built it; 1927 - discontinued.
(North Carolina Railroad Company), Allen W. Trelease (1991).
The
North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North
Carolina. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
486 p.). North Carolina Railroad Company--History; Railroads--North
Carolina--History--19th century.
(North Eastern Railway Company), William Weaver Tomlinson (1967).
Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway: Its Rise and Development.
(Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 820 p.). North-Eastern Railway
(England); Railroads -- Great Britain -- History.
(North Eastern Railway Company), R. J. Irving (1976).
The North Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1914: An Economic History.
(Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press, 320 p.). North Eastern
Railway (England) -- History.
(Northern Alberta Railways Company), Ena Schneider (1989).
Ribbons of Steel: The Story of the Northern Alberta Railways.
(Calgary, AB: Detselig Enterprises, 312 p.). Northern Alberta Railways
Company; Railroads--Alberta, Northern.
(Northern Pacific - Villard, aka Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard,
became President in early 1880's), James B. Hedges (1930).
Henry Villard and
the Railways of the Northwest. (New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 224 p.). Villard, Henry, 1835-1900; Northern Pacific Railroad
Company; Pacific railroads--History; Railroads--Northwest, Pacific.
(Northern Pacific), Charles R. Wood (1968).
The Northern Pacific, Main Street of the Northwest; A Pictorial History.
(Seattle, WA: Superior Pub. Co., 208 p.). Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
(Northern Pacific), Henry Villard (1969).
Memoirs of
Henry Villard; Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900. (New York, NY:
Da Capo Press, 2 vols. [orig. pub. 1904]). Villard, Henry, 1835-1900;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
Contents: v. 1. 1835-1862.--v. 2. 1863-1900.
(Northern Pacific), Dietrich G. Buss (1978). Henry Villard: A
Study of Transatlantic Investments and Interests, 1870-1895. (New
York, NY: Arno Press, 296 p.). Villard, Henry, 1835-1900;
Railroads--United States--Finance--History; Capitalists and
financiers--United States--Biography; Investments, German--United
States--History.
(Northern Pacific), John L. Harnsberger (1981).
Jay Cooke and
Minnesota: The Formative Years of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
1868-1873. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 348 p. (Originally presented
as the author's thesis, University of Minnesota, 1956)). Cooke, Jay,
1821-1905; Northern Pacific Railroad Company--History.
(Northern Pacific), Robin W. Winks (1991).
Frederick Billings: A
Life. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 398 p.). Billings,
Frederick, 1823-1890; Northern Pacific Railway Company -- History;
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
(Northern Pacific), Sig Mickelson (1993).
The Northern Pacific Railroad and the Selling of the West: A
Nineteenth-Century Public Relations Venture. (Sioux Falls, SD:
Center for Western Studies, 232 p.). Northern Pacific Railroad
Company--History; Advertising--Real estate business--History--19th
century; Land settlement--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
(Northern Pacific), Peter J. Lewty (1995).
Across the Columbia Plain: Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest,
1885-1893. (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 326
p.). Northern Pacific Railroad Company -- History -- 19th century;
Oregon and Transcontinental Company -- History -- 19th century; Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company -- History -- 19th century; Union Pacific
Railroad Company -- History -- 19th century'; Railroads -- United States
-- History -- 19th century.
(Northern Pacific), Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen
(2001).
Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan. (New
York, NY: Doubleday, 414 p.). Villard, Henry, 1835-1900; Capitalists and
financiers--United States--Biography; Journalists--United
States--Biography; Railroads--United States--History--19th century.
(Northern Pacific), M. John Lubetkin (2006).
Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad and the Panic of
1873. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 380 p.).
rFormer Cable Television Executive. Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905;
Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Financial crises--United
States--History--19th century. Soldiers, engineers, businessmen,
politicians, Native Americans who tried to build or block the
Northern Pacific.
Northern Pacific Railroad map circa 1900
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/f/f5/
Northern_Pacific_Railroad_map_circa_1900.jpg)
(Northwestern Pacific Railroad), Fred Codoni, Paul C. Trimble,
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society (2006).
Northwestern Pacific Railroad. (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia
Publishing, 144 p.). Northwestern Pacific Railroad; Railroad
companies--United States--History.
"Redwood
Empire Route" once stretched from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay.
(NOT&L), James M. Blower and Robert S. Korach (1966).
The NOT&L
Story. (Chicago, IL: Central Electric Railfans' Association, 268
p.). Northern Ohio Traction and Light Company;
Street-railroads--Ohio--History; Local transit--Ohio--History.
(Ocean Shore Railroad Company), Barbara VanderWerf (1992).
Granada, A Synonym for Paradise: The Ocean Shore Railroad Years.
(El Granada, CA: Gum Tree Lane Books, 208 p.). Ocean Shore Railroad
Company--History--20th century; Landscape--California--El
Granada--History--20th century; Landscape--California--San Mateo
County--History--20th century; El Granada (Calif.)--History; San Mateo
County (Calif.)--History, Local.
(Ontario Northland Railway), Albert Tucker (1978).
Steam into Wilderness: Ontario Northland Railway 1902-1962.
(Totonto, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 214 p.). Ontario Northland
Railway -- History; Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
(Ontario & Quebec Railway), Donald M. Wilson (1984). The Ontario
& Quebec Railway: A History of the Development of the Canadian Pacific
System in Southern Ontario. (Belleville, ON: Mika Pub. Co., 262
p.). Ontario and Quebec Railway Company -- History; Canadian Pacific
Railway Company -- History; Railroads -- Ontario -- History.
(Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway), Peter J. Lewty (1987).
To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific,
1879-1884. (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press,
202 p.). Northern Pacific Railroad Company -- History -- 19th century;
Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway -- History -- 19th century; Railroads
-- United States -- History -- 19th century.
(PACCAR), Alex Groner and Barry Provorse (2005).
PACCAR: The Pursuit of Quality. (Seattle, WA: Documentary
Media LLC, 328 p. [4th ed.]). PACCAR--History; Railroad equipment
industry--United States--History; Truck industry--United
States--History.
(Pacific Electric Railway), Spencer Crump (1970).
Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric; A Pictorial Album.
(Los Angeles, CA: Trans-Anglo Books, 112 p.). Huntington, Henry
Edwards, 1850-1927; Pacific Electric Railway;
Street-railroads--California, Southern--Pictorial works; Capitalists
and financiers--United States--Biography.
(Pacific Fruit Express Co.), Anthony W. Thompson, Robert J. Church,
Bruce H. Jones (2000).
Pacific Fruit Express. (Berkeley, CA: Signature Press, 464
p.). Pacific Fruit Express Co.; Refrigerator cars.
(Panama Railroad), Fessenden N. Otis (1867).
Isthmus of Panama. History of the Panama Railroad; and of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. Together with a travellers' guide and
business man's hand-book for the Panama railroad and the lines of
steamships connecting it with Europe, the United States, the north and
south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan. By F.
N. Otis. (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 317 p.). Panama
Railroad; Panama -- Description and travel; Pacific mail steamship
company.
(PATH), Lorett Treese (2006).
Railroads of New Jersey: Fragments of the Past in the Garden State
Landscape. (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 228 p.).
Archivist (Bryn Mawr College). Railroads--New Jersey--History.
History of PATH, Newark City Subway, NJ Transit,
Secaucus Junction, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail.
(Penn Central), Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen (1971). The
Wreck of the Penn Central. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 365 p.).
Pennsylvania Central Transportation Company.
(Penn Central), Robert Sobel (1977).
The Fallen Colossus.
(New York, NY: Weybright & Talley, 370 p.). Penn Central
Transportation Company; Railroads--United States--Finance;
Capital--United States.
(Penn Central), Stephen Salsbury (1982).
No Way to Run a
Railroad: The Untold Story of the Penn Central Crisis. (New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 363 p.). Penn Central Transportation Company.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), William Bender Wilson (1899). History
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company with Plan of Organization,
Portraits of Officials, and Biographical Sketches. (Philadelphia,
PA: H. T. Coates & Company, 2 vols.). Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), H.W. Schotter (1927). The Growth and
Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: A Review of the
Charter and Annual Reports of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846
to 1926, Inclusive. (Philadelphia, PA: Allen, Lane & Scott,
518 p. (2nd ed.)). Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), Edwin P Alexander (1971).
On the Main Line: The Pennsylvania Railroad in the 19th Century.
(New York, NY: C. N. Potter, 310 p.). Pennsylvania Railroad.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy
(1976). Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
1846-1946. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 835 p. [Reprint of 1949
ed.]). Pennsylvania Railroad
(Pennsylvania Railroad), Patricia T. Davis (1978).
End of the
Line: Alexander J. Cassatt and the Pennsylvania Railroad. (New
York, NY: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 208 p.). Cassatt,
Alexander J. (Alexander Johnston), 1839-1906; Pennsylvania Railroad;
Businessmen--United States--Biography.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), James A. Ward (1980).
J. Edgar Thomson: Master
of the Pennsylvania. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 265 p.).
Thomson, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1808-1874; Pennsylvania
Railroad--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), Patricia Talbot Davis (1994). The
Railroad General: William Wallace Atterbury. (Atlanta, GA: Metro
Printing, 205 p.). Atterbury, William Wallace, 1866-1935; Pennsylvania
Railroad--History; Railroads--Pennsylvania--Employees--Biography;
Executives--Pennsylvania--Biography.
(Pennsylvania Railroad), Jill Jonnes (2007).
Conquering Gotham: A Guilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn
Station and Its Tunnels. (New York, NY: Viking, 368 p.).
Pennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)--History--History--20th century;
Tunneling--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century; Railroad
stations--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century; Historic
buildings--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
1901-1910: PRR's monumental
effort to build system of electrified tunnels under Hudson
River, Manhattan, East River to Long Island, all meeting at
Pennsylvania Station; then nation's biggest, most difficult, important
civil engineering project.
(Portland Company), David H. Fletcher (2002).
The Portland Company: 1846-1982. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub.,
128 p.). Former President of the Sandy River Railroad Museum, Founder
of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum. Portland Company.
Manufactured railroad locomotives for Atlantic & St. Lawrence
Railroad; later diversified; played major role in economy,
development of Maine state.
(Pullman), Liston E. Leyendecker (1992).
Palace Car Prince: A
Biography of George Mortimer Pullman. (Niwot, CO: University Press
of Colorado, 323 p.). Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897; Pullman's
Palace Car Company--History; Businessmen--United States--Biography;
Industrialists--United States--Biography.
(Pullman), David D. Perata (1996).
Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad
Attendant. (New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 178 p.). Pullman
Company -- History; Pullman porters -- Interviews; African American
train attendants -- Interviews.
(Pullman), David Ray Papke (1999).
The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America.
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 118 p.). R. Bruce Townsend
Professor of Law (Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis),
Professor of Liberal Arts (Indiana University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis). Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926
--Trials, litigation, etc.; Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897;
Trials (Conspiracy)--Illinois; Strikes and lockouts--Railroads--Law
and legislation--United States--History; Chicago Strike, 1894.
(Quanah Acme & Pacific), Don L. Hofsommer (1991).
The Quanah
Route: A History of the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway. (College
Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 215 p.). Quanah, Acme, and
Pacific Railway Company; Railroads--Texas.
(Rahway Valley Railroad), Donald A. Maxton (2002).
The Rahway Valley Railroad. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 128
p.). Rahway Valley Railroad--History.
One of
shortest yet most prosperous of American railroads; helped transform
rural region into one of New Jersey's most vital and populous areas.
(Rome, Watertown), Edward Hungerford (1922). The Story of the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad. (New York, NY: R.M.
McBride & Company, 269 p.). Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad.
(Ruston and Hornsby Ltd.), Bernard Newman (1957).
One Hundred Years of Good Company: Published on the Occasion of the
Ruston Centenary 1857-1957. (Lincoln, UK: Ruston & Hornsby, 272
p.). Ruston & Hornsby Ltd.; Locomotive industry--Great
Britain--Management--History--20th century. 1840 - Proctor and Burton
established; 1857 - Joseph Ruston joined company; name changed to
Ruston, Proctor and Company; September 11, 1918 - merged with Richard
Hornsby & Sons ( world leaders in vaporizing oil engines, built them
since 1891, eight years before Rudoph Diesel's engine commercially
produced); renamed Ruston and Hornsby Ltd. Hornsbys.
(San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company), Robert M. Hanft
(1984).
San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad. (Glendale, CA:
Trans-Anglo Books, 224 p.). San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company.
(San Diego & Southeastern Railroad), Ralph Forty (1986).
San Diego’s South Bay Interurban. (Glendale, CA: Interurban
Press, 95 p.). San Diego & Southeastern Railroad;
Street-railroads--California--San Diego.
(Santa Fe), Donald Duke (1995).
Santa Fe: The Railroad Gateway to
the American West. (San Marino, CA: Golden West Books. Santa Fe
Pacific Railroad Company--History; Railroads--West (U.S.)--History.
(Severn Valley Railway), Michael A. Vanns (2006).
Severn Valley Railway. (Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan, 96 p.).
Severn Valley Railway -- History; Severn Valley Railway -- History --
Pictorial works.
(South Eastern Railways), R.R. Bhandari (1988). The Blue Chip
Railway, 1887-1987. (Calcutta, IN: C.P.R.O., S.E. Railways, 142 p.).
Railroads--India--History.
(Southern England Railways), David St John Thomas & Patrick
Whitehouse (1988).
SR 150: A Century and a Half of the Southern Railway. (Newton
Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 207 p.). Southern England Railways history.
(Southern Express), G. Hutchinson Smyth (1898). The Life of Henry
Bradley Plant: Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads
and Steamships and also of the Southern Express Company. (New York,
NY: Putnam, 344 p.). Plant, Henry Bradley, 1819-1899; Plant family (John
Plant d.ca 1691).
(Southern Pacific), Neill C. Wilson and Frank J. Taylor (1952).
Southern Pacific: The Roaring Story of a Fighting Railroad. (New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 256 p.). Southern Pacific Company.
(Southern Pacific), Stuart Daggett (1966).
Chapters on the History
of the Southern Pacific. (New York, NY: A.M. Kelley, 470 p. [orig.
pub. 1922]). Southern Pacific Railroad.
(Southern Pacific), John R. Signor (1985).
Donner Pass: Southern Pacific’s Sierra Crossing. (San Marino,
CA: Golden West Books, 290 p.). Southern Pacific Railroad
Company--History; Donner Pass (Calif.)--History.
(Southern Pacific), Don L. Hofsommer; foreword by Richard C. Overton
(1986).
The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985. (College Station, TX:
Texas A&M University Press, 373 p.). Southern Pacific Railroad--History.
(Southern Pacific), Loren Nicholson (1993).
Rails Across the Ranchos: Celebrating the Southern Pacific Railroad
Coastal Line. (San Luis Obispo, CA: California Heritage Pub.
Associates, 197 p.). Railroads--California--San Luis Obispo
County--History; San Luis Obispo County (Calif.)--History.
(Southern Pacific), Jim A. Loveland (1996).
Dinner Is Served: Fine
Dining Aboard the Southern Pacific. (San Marino, CA: Golden West
Books, 241 p.). Southern Pacific Railroad Company; Railroads--United
States--Dining-car service.
(Southern Pacific), Richard J. Orsi (2005).
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the
American West, 1850-1930. (Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 647 p.). Professor Emeritus of History (California
State University, Hayward). Southern Pacific Railroad Company--History;
Southern Pacific Company--History; Railroads--California--History; Water
resources development--West (U.S.); Land use--West (U.S.)--History; West
(U.S.)--Economic conditions--20th century; West (U.S.)--Economic
conditions--19th century; West (U.S.)--Environmental
conditions--History.
(Southern Pacific), Monte George Kim (2006).
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Making of Place and Community in
California. (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest/UMI, 387 p.). Southern
Pacific Company--History; California--development.
Transformative role of railroad in California during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries; role of Southern Pacific Railroad in
making (and remaking) of places and communities throughout the state.
(Southern Railway), Burke Davis (1985).
The Southern Railway:
Road of the Innovators. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North
Carolina Press, 309 p.). Southern Railway (U.S.).
(Southern Railway), Charles O. Morgret (1996).
Brosnan: The
Railroads' Messiah. (New York, NY: Vantage Press, 2 vols.).
Brosnan, Dennis William, 1903-1985; Railroads--United
States--Biography; Railroads--United States--History.
(Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway), Charles and Dorothy Wood
(1974).
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Ry; The Northwest’s Own Railway.
(Seattle, WA: Superior Pub. Co., 159 p.). Spokane, Portland, and
Seattle Railway.
(St. Louis-San Francisco), H. Craig Miner (1972).
The St.
Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad; the Thirty-Fifth
Parallel Project, 1853-1890. (Lawrence, KS: Unicersity of Kansas
Press, 236 p.). St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company;
Railroads--United States--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), John Thomas (1952). The Story
of George Stephenson. (London, UK: Oxford University Press, 173
p.). Stephenson, George, 1781-1848; Railroads--Great Britain.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), John Rowland (1971).
Railway
Pioneer: The Story of George Stephenson. (New York, NY: Roy
Publishers, 121 p.). Stephenson, George, 1781-1848; Stephenson, George,
1781-1848; Railroads--Great Britain--Biography. Biography of the English
inventor whose pioneer work in railway engineering marked the beginning
of England's railroad network.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), Samuel Smiles (1971).
The Life
of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. (Ann Arbor, MI: Plutarch
Press, 557 p. [5th ed.; orig. pub. 1858]). Stephenson, George,
1781-1848; Railroads--Great Britain--History; Locomotives--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), J. S. Jeans (1974).
History of
the Stockton and Darlington Railway: Jubilee Memorial of the Railway
System. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Graham, 315 p. [orig. pub. 1875]).
Stockton and Darlington Railway; Railroads--Great Britain--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), P. W. B. Semmens (1975).
Stockton & Darlington: One Hundred & Fifty Years of British Railways.
(London, UK: New English Library, 160 p.). Stockton and Darlington
Railway; Railroads--Great Britain--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), P. J. Holmes (1975). The
Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1825-1975. (Ayr, UK: First Avenue
Pub. Co., 194 p.). Stockton and Darlington Railway--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), L. T. C. Rolt (1977).
George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 356 p. [orig. pub. 1960]). Stephenson, George,
1781-1848; Stephenson, Robert, 1803-1859; Railroad
engineers--England--Biography.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), Maurice W. Kirby (1993).
The
Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway,
1821-1863. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 223 p.).
Stockton and Darlington Railway--History; Railroads--Great
Britain--History.
(Stockton and Darlington Railway), Charlie Emett (2000).
The
Stockton & Darlington Railway: 175 Years. (Stroud, UK: Sutton, 130
p.). Stockton and Darlington Railway.--History;
Railroads--England--Darlington--History;
Railroads--England--Stockton--History.
(Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company), Richard T. Wallis
(2001).
The Pennsylvania Railroad at Bay: William Riley McKeen and
the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 189 p.). McKeen, William Riley, b. 1829; Terre Haute
& Indianapolis Railroad Company--History; Pennsylvania
Railroad--History; Railroads--Indiana--History;
Railroads--Illinois--History.
(Texas & Pacific Railway), Virginia H. Taylor (1969).
The Franco-Texan Land Company. (Austin, TX: University of Texas
Press, 331 p.). Texas & Pacific Railway; Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific
Railroad Company; Franco-Texan Land Company; French -- Texas.
(Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad), Paul H. Stringham (1993).
Toledo, Peoria & Western: Tried, Proven & Willing. (Peoria, IL:
Deller Archive, 149 p.). Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad;
Railroads--Middle West.
(Transcontinental Railroad), Robert West Howard (1962). The Great
Iron Trail; The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. (New
York, NY: Putnam, 376 p.). Central Pacific Railroad Company; Union
Pacific Railroad Company.
(Transcontinental Railroad), Julius Grodinsky (1962).
Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893; A Study of Businessmen.
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 443 p.).
Railroads--United States--History.
(Transcontinental Railroad), Wesley S. Griswold (1962).
A Work of
Giants; Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 367 p.). Central Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad
Company.
(Transcontinental Railroad), James McCague (1964).
Moguls and Iron
Men; The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. (New York,
NY: Harper & Row, 392 p.). Central Pacific Railroad; Union Pacific
Railroad[ Railroads--West (U.S.).
(Transcontinental Railroad), Enid Johnson (1965).
Rails Across the
Continent; The Story of the First Transcontinental Railroad. (New
York, NY: J. Messner, 190 p.). Central Pacific Railroad Company; Union
Pacific Railroad Company; Central Pacific Railroad Company; Union
Pacific Railroad Company.
(Transcontinental Railroad), John Debo Galloway (1983).
The First
Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 319 p. [orig. pub. 1950]). Central
Pacific Railroad Company--History; Union Pacific Railroad
Company--History.
(Transcontinental Railroad), John Hoyt Williams (1996).
A Great
and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad.
(Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 341 p. [orig. pub. 1988]).
Pacific railroads--History; Railroads--West (U.S.)--History.
(Transcontinental Railroad), David Haward Bain (1999).
Empire
Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. (New York,
NY: Viking, 797 p.). Teaches at Middlebury College. Railroads--United
States--History; West (U.S.)--History.
(Transcontinental Railroad), Stephen E. Ambrose (2000).
Nothing
Like It in the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad,
1863-1869. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 431 p.). Professor,
University of New Orleans. Central Pacific Railroad Company--History;
Union Pacific Railroad Company--History; Railroads--United
States--History--19th century; Railroad construction workers--United
States--History--19th century.
(Virginia and Truckee Railroad), Ted Wurm and Harre W. Demoro
(1982).
The Silver Short Line: A History of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
(San Diego, CA: Howell-North Books. Virginia and Truckee
Railroad--History.
(Union Pacific), George Kennan (1922).
E. H. Harriman: A Biography.
(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2 vols.). Harriman, Edward Henry,
1848-1909; Boys--Societies and clubs; Businessmen--Biography;
Railroads--United States.
(Union Pacific), Robert W. Fogel (1960).
The Union Pacific
Railroad; A Case in Premature Enterprise. (Baltimore, MD: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 129 p.). Union Pacific Railroad
Company (1862-1880).
(Union Pacific), Stanley P. Hirshson (1967). Grenville M. Dodge,
Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 334 p.). Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916.
(Union Pacific), John P. Davis (1973).
The Union Pacific Railway;
A Study in Railway Politics, History, and Economics. (New York, NY:
Arno Press, 247 p. [orig. pub. 1894]). Union Pacific Railroad.
(Union Pacific), J. R. Perkins (1981).
Trails, Rails, and War: The
Life of General G. M. Dodge. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 371 p.
[orig. pub. 1929]). Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916; Capitalists and
financiers--West (U.S.)--Biography; Railroads--West (U.S.)--History;
Pacific railroads--History; Union Pacific Railroad--History.
(Union Pacific), Lloyd J. Mercer (1985).
E. H. Harriman, Master
Railroader. (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 188 p.). Harriman,
Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Businessmen--United States--Biography;
Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
(Union Pacific), Maury Klein (1987).
Union Pacific. (Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 2 vols.). Union Pacific Railroad Company. v. 1.
Birth of a railroad, 1862-1893 -- v. 2. The rebirth, 1894-1969.
(Union Pacific), Maury Klein (2000).
The Life & Legend of E. H.
Harriman. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,
521 p.). Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Capitalists and
financiers--United States--Biography; Railroads--United
States--History.
(Virginia and Truckee Railroad), Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg
(1957).
Steamcars to the Comstock; The Virginia & Truckee Railroad, the Carson &
Colorado Railroad: Their Story in Picture and Prose. (Berkeley,
CA: Howell-North, 74 p.). Virginia and Truckee Railroad; Carson and
Colorado Railroad.
(Virginia and Truckee Railroad), Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg
(1963).
Virginia & Truckee, A Story of Virginia City and Comstock Times.
(Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 67 p.). Virginia and Truckee Railroad.
(Virginia and Truckee Railroad), Ted Wurm and Harre W. Demoro (1982).
The Silver Short Line: A History of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
(San Diego, CA: Howell-North Books). Virginia and Truckee
Railroad--History.
(Virginia and Truckee Railroad), Ted Wurm (1992).
Rebirth of the Virginia & Truckee R.R.: Amazing Revival of a Steam
Railroad. (Ross, CA: May-Murdock Publications, 78 p.). Virginia
and Truckee Railroad; Railroads--Nevada.
(Wabash Railroad), H. Roger Grant (2004).
Follow the Flag: A
History of the Wabash Railroad Company. (DeKalb, IL: Northern
Illinois University Press, 291 p.). Centennial Professor of History
(Clemson University). Wabash Railroad History.
(Washington-Virginia Railway Company), John E. Merriken (1987).
Old Dominion Trolley Too: A History of the Mount Vernon Line.
(Dallas, TX: L.O. King, Jr., 142 p.). Washington-Virginia Railway
Company; Street-railroads--Virginia.
(James Watt and Company), Sir Eric Roll. With an introd. by J. G.
Smith (1968). An Early Experiment in Industrial Organisation; Being
a History of the Firm of Boulton & Watt, 1775-1805. (New York, NY:
A.M. Kelley, 320 p. [reprint of 1930 ed.]). James Watt and Company
(Birmingham, England); Steam-engines--History.
(Western Pacific Railway Company), Spencer Crump (1963). Western
Pacific; The Railroad That Was Built Too Late. (Los Angeles, CA:
Trans-Anglo Books, 48 p.). Western Pacific Railway Company; Western
Pacific Railroad Company.
(Western Pacific Railway Company), Norman W. Holmes (1996).
My Western Pacific Railroad: An Engineer’s Journey. (Reno, NV:
Steel Rails West Publishing, 128 p.). Western Pacific Railroad
Company--History; Railroads--California--History;
Railroads--California--Pictorial works.
(Westinghouse Air Brake Company), Wilmerding World Wide (2002).
Wilmerding and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
(Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 128 p.). Promotes History of George
Westinghouse. Wilmerding and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
Story of company and company town, both built by
George Westinghouse, grew up hand
in hand; how citizens
lived.
(Wisconsin Central Ltd.), Otto P. Dobnick and Steve Glischinski
(1997).
Wisconsin Central: Railroad Success Story. (Waukesha,
WI: Kalmbach Books, 160 p.). Wisconsin Central Ltd.; Railroads--United
States.
Charles F. Adams, Jr. (1878).
Railroads: Their Origins and
Problems. (New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 230 p.). Railroads.
Mark Aldrich (2006).
Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965.
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 464 p.). Marilyn Carlson
Nelson Professor of Economics (Smith College). Railroads--United
States--Accidents--History; Railroads--United States--Safety
measures--History. Evolution of railroad safety in
the United States-interplay of market forces, science and technology,
legal and public pressures.
Robert G. Angevine (2004).
The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in
Nineteenth-Century America. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 351 p.). Research Analyst at the Strategic Assessment Center.
United States. Army--History--19th century; Railroads and state--United
States--History--19th century; Railroads--Military aspects--United
States--History--19th century; Industrial mobilization--United
States--History--19th century.
Gerald Berk (1994).
Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order,
1865-1917. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 243
p.). Associate Professor of Political Science (University of Oregon).
Railroads and state --United States --History; Railroads --Political
aspects --United States --History; Railroad law --United States
--History; Corporations --Political aspects --United States --History;
Corporation law --United States --History; Industrial policy --United
States --History. Constitutional choices, not technological imperatives or economic
interests, determined outcome in 20th century.
ed. Stuart Bruchey (1981). Memoirs of Three Railroad Pioneers.
(New York, NY: Arno Press, 104 p.). Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916;
Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Hopkins, Mark, 1813-1878;
Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography;
Railroads--United States--History. Hill, J. J. The Great Northern and
the Northwest.--Kahn, O. H. Edward Henry Harriman.--Redding, B.
B.
Brian Carroll (1976).
Australia’s Railway Days: Milestones in Railway History.
(Melbourne, AU: Macmillan, 111 p.). Railroads--Australia--History.
Compiled and edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1965).
The
Railroads, The Nation's First Big Business; Sources and Readings.
(New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 213 p.). Railroads--United
States--History--Addresses, essays, lectures.
ed. Alfred D. Chandler (1979).
The Railroads, Pioneers in Modern
Management. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 295 p.). Railroads--United
States--Management--Addresses, essays, lectures;
Management--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Albert J. Churella (1998).
From Steam to Diesel: Managerial
Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century
American Locomotive Industry. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 215 p.). Locomotive industry--United
States--Management--History--20th century.
John E. Clark, Jr. (2001).
Railroads in the Civil War: The
Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. (Baton Rouge, LA:
Louisiana State University Press, 275 p.). United States.
Army--Management--History--19th century; Confederate States of
America. Army--Management; United States.
Army--Transportation--History--19th century; Confederate States of
America. Army--Transportation; Railroads--United States--History--19th
century; Railroads--Confederate States of America--History; United
States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation; United
States--Politics and government--1861-1865; Confederate States of
America--Politics and government.
Thomas C. Cochran (1953).
Railroad Leaders, 1845-1890: The
Business Mind in Action. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
564 p.). Railroads--United States--Biography. Harvard University
Research Center Series in Entrepreneurial History.
William Deverell (1994).
Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 278 p.). Professor of
History (University of Southern California), Director of the
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Railroads --
California -- History; Southern Pacific Company--History.
Chaos that was industrial
America from middle of nineteenth century through first decade of the
twentieth. Americans clamored for progress, prosperity that
railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for
California than the transcontinental line linking East to West; Californians looked to railroad as
state's new savior; social upheaval, economic disruption came
down tracks along with growth, opportunity; contradictory roles of
technology, industrial capitalism in lives of Americans.
Colleen A. Dunlavy (1994).
Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States
and Prussia. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 303
p.). Professor of History (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Railroads
and state--United States--History--19th century; Railroads and
state--Germany--Prussia--History--19th century; Railroads--United
States--History--19th century;
Railroads--Germany--Prussia--History--19th century.
Saul Engelbourg and Leonard Bushkoff (1996).
The Man Who Found
the Money: John Stewart Kennedy and the Financing of the the Western
Railroads. (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 257
p.). Kennedy, John S. (John Stewart), 1830-1909; Capitalists and
financiers--United States--Biography; Philanthropists--United
States--Biography; Railroads--United States--History--19th century;
Railroads--Canada--History--19th century; Public libraries--New York
(State)--New York--History.
Albert Fishlow (1965).
American Railroads and the Transformation
of the Antebellum Economy. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 452 p.). Railroads--United States--History; United
States--Economic conditions. Transition from the
"Old Economic History" to the "New Economic History."
Robert William Fogel (1964).
Railroads and American Economic
Growth: Essays in Econometric History. (Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins Press, 296 p.). Charles R. Walgreen Professor of American
Institutions, Director for the Center for Population Economics
(University of Chicago), Winner - Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993.
Railroads--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions.
Disagreed that railroads constituted "the
greatest technological innovation of the 19th-century, the engine that
pushed forward the whole American economy." Used data on 19th-century
agricultural commodities, transport costs, land value, canal usage.
Argued that railroads made relatively small contribution to U.S.
economic growth in 1890; claimed that even if first rail had never
been laid, per capita income reached in U. S. on January 1, 1890 would
have been delayed by only about 3 months; dismantled concept of "axis
of indispensability".
William B. Friedricks (1992).
Henry E. Huntington and the
Creation of Southern California. (Columbus, OH: Ohio State
University Press, 229 p.). Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927;
Businesspeople--California, Southern--Biography;
Entrepreneurship--California, Southern--History--20th century.
A. F. Garnett (2005).
Steel Wheels: The Evolution of the Railways and How They Stimulated
and Excited Engineers, Architects, Artists, Writers, Musicians and
Travellers. (Waldenbury, Chailey, East Sussex, UK: Cannwood,
266 p.). Railroads--History. Evolution of railways, engineers and
architects who made them possible.
Sarah H. Gordon (1996).
Passage to Union: How the Railroads
Transformed American Life, 1829-1929. (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee,
403 p.). Railroads--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions; United States--Social conditions.
H. Roger Grant (2005).
The Railroad: The Life Story of a Technology. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 182 p.). Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of
History & Geography (Clemson University). Railroads--United
States--History. 200 years of the growth and development of
historically significant technology; linked to broader social
developments.
Dolores Greenberg (1980).
Financiers and Railroads, 1869-1889: A
Study of Morton, Bliss & Company. (Newark, DE: University of
Delaware Press, 286 p.). Morton, Bliss & Company--History;
Railroads--United States--Finance--History.
Don L. Hofsommer (2005).
Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. (Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press, 337 p.). Professor of History (St.
Cloud State University). Railroads--Minnesota--Minneapolis--History;
Minneapolis (Minn.)--History. Author presents Minneapolis from the
1860s into the 1950s, when railroads served as unique link between
city and countryside.
--- (2005).
Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland: Iowa’s Railroad Experience.
(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 353 p.).
Professor of History (St. Cloud State University). Railroads--Iowa--History.
Critically important element in state’s history;
tight symbiotic relationship between Iowa and its railways.
Stewart H. Holbrook (1981).
The Story of American Railroads.
(New York, NY: American Legacy Press, 469 p. [orig. pub. 1947]).
Railroads--United States--History.
Kakizaki Ichiro (2004).
Laying the Tracks: The Thai Economy and Its Railways 1885-1935.
(Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press, 327 p.). Railroads--Economic
aspects--Thailand; Railroads--Thailand--History; Thailand--Economic
conditions--1782-1945.
Arthur M. Johnson and Barry E. Supple (1967). Boston Capitalists
and Western Railroads; a Study in the Nineteenth-Century Railroad
Investment Process. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 392
p.). Railroads--United States--Finance.
Ian Kennedy and Julian Treuherz (2008).
The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam. (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 287 p.). Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Curator,
European Painting and Sculpture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in
Kansas City; formerly Keeper of Art Galleries, National Museums
Liverpool. Railroads in art --Exhibitions; Railroad travel in art
--Exhibitions; Art, Modern --19th century --Exhibitions; Art, Modern
--20th century --Exhibitions. One of industrial age’s defining
achievements - artistic response
to steam locomotion within its social setting via paintings,
photography, prints, posters; wide variety of themes
(landscape painting, conquest of West, Impressionism, issues of social
class, Modernism, aesthetics of machine, environmental concerns).
Ian J. Kerr (2006).
Engines of Change: The Railroads That Made India. (Westport, CT:
Praeger, 224 p.). Retired Professor of History and Senior Scholar in the
Department of History (University of Manitoba).
Railroads--India--History. Railway networks
brought people together as colony; fostered nationalism (Britain's
downfall); remade physical landscape, brought social-cultural cohesion
to diverse, wide-ranging populace.
M. W. Kirby (1984).
Men of Business and Politics: The Rise and
Fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700-1943.
(Boston, MA: Allen & Unwin, 167 p.). Pease family; Businesspeople--Great
Britain--Biography; Politicians--Great Britain--Biography; Great
Britain--Economic conditions.
Maury Klein (1994).
Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American
Life. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 226 p.).
Railroads--United States--History.
Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk (1982).
Rail, Finance et Politique: Les Entreprises Philippart, 1865-1890.
(Bruxelles, Belgique: Editions de l’Universite´ de Bruxelles, 392 p.).
Professor in History, Centre d'Études Canadiennes (Université Libre de
Bruxelles). Philippart, Simon, 1827-1900;
Railroads--Belgium--History--19th century; Business
enterprises--Belgium--History--19th century;
Railroads--Luxembourg--History--19th century;
Railroads--France--History--19th century.
Rush Loving, Jr. (2006).
The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed To Save an
Ailing Industry. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 248
p.). Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under
President Jimmy Carter. Railroads--United States--Biography; Capitalists
and financiers--United States--Biography; Railroad companies--United
States--History. Chiefs who have run railroads; intrigue, greed, lust
for power, boardroom battles, takeover wars.
Albro Martin (1971).
Enterprise Denied; Origins of the Decline
of American Railroads, 1897-1917. (New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 402 p.). Railroads and state -- United States.
--- (1992).
Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and
Rebirth of a Vital American Force. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 428 p.). Railroads -- United States -- History.
Charles McKean (2006).
Battle for the North: The Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th-Century
Railway Wars. (London, UK: Granta Books, 390 p.).
Railroads--Scotland--Design and construction--History; Tay Bridge
Disaster, Dundee, Scotland, 1879; Forth Bridge (South Queensferry,
Scotland : Railroad bridge)--History; Tay Bridge (Dundee, Scotland :
Railroad bridge)--History. 1879 - longest railway bridge in the world
collapsed in a violent storm; folly of trusting in market forces to run
railways.
John Moody (1919).
The Railroad Builders; A Chronicle of the
Welding of the States. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 257
p.). Railroads--United States--History.
ed. Patrick O'Brien (1981).
Railways and the Economic Development
of Western Europe, 1830-1914. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 243
p.). Railroads--Europe--History; Europe--Economic conditions.
M. C. Reed (1975).
Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820-1844:
A Study in the Development of the Capital Market. (London, UK:
Oxford University Press, 315 p.). Railroads--Great
Britain--Finance--History; Capital investments--Great
Britain--History.
Alfred Runte (2006).
Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation.
(Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 195 p.).
Railroads--United States--History; Railroads--United States--Passenger
traffic. Greatest loss from decline of passenger train is alliance
between technology and the land.
Walter S. Sanderlin (1976). The Great National Project: A
History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. (New York, NY: Arno
Press, 331 p. [Reprint of 1946 ed.]). Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md.
and Washington, D.C.).
Richard Saunders, Jr. (2001).
Merging Lines: American Railroads,
1900-1970. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois Press, 486 p. [rev. 1978
ed.]). Teacher of History (Clemson University). ConRail--History--20th
century; Railroads and state--United States--History--20th century;
Railroads--Mergers--United States--History--20th century.
--- (2003).
Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads,
1970-2002. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 436 p.).
Teacher of History (Clemson University). Railroads--Mergers--United
States; Railroads--Mergers--United States--History--20th century.
Carlos A. Schwantes (1993).
Railroad Signatures across the
Pacific Northwest. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,
359 p.). Railroads--Northwest, Pacific; Railroads--Northwest,
Pacific--History.
Roy V. Scott (1985).
Railroad Development Programs in the Twentieth Century. (Ames,
IA: Iowa State University Press, 231 p.). Railroads--Economic
aspects--United States--History--20th century.
John R. Stilgoe (2007).
Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States
Landscape. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press,
281 p.). Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape
(Harvard University). Railroads--United States--History;
Landscape--United States; Railroads--United States--Traffic;
Railroads--United States--Freight; Railroads--Social aspects--United
States--History. Spatial consequences of
railways; train is returning, "an economic
and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States;"
future for railways as powerful shapers of American life.
John F. Stover (1955). The Railroads of the South, 1865-1900; A
Study in Finance and Control. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 310 p.). Railroads--Southern States.
--- (1997).
American Railroads. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 306 p. [2nd ed.]). Railroads--United States--History.
William R. Summerhill (2003).
Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads
in Brazil, 1854-1913. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 297 p.). Railroads--Brazil--History--19th century;
Railroads--Economic aspects--Brazil; Railroads and
state--Brazil--History--19th century.
James Thorpe (1994).
Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography.
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 623 p.). Huntington,
Henry Edwards, 1850-1927; Capitalists and financiers--United
States--Biography.
Gregg Turner (2003).
A Short History of Florida’s Railroads. (Charleston, SC:
Arcadia Pub., 128 p.). Railroads--Florida--History; Florida--History.
Linked practically every
town and city, carried tourists and locals, conveyed wealth of
Florida's mines, factories, forests, groves, and farms.
--- (2005).
Florida Railroads in the 1920's. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 128
p.). Former Director of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society
at Harvard Business School. Railroads--Florida--History;
Florida--History. Florida’s biggest
railroads—Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Florida East
Coast—were unprepared for tidal wave of traffic during colossal land
boom; had to rapidly expand and increase capacity.
Steven W. Usselman (2002).
Regulating Railroad Innovation:
Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920. (New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 398 p.). Railroads--United
States--History; Railroads--Technological innovations.
Teresa Miriam Van Hoy (2008).
A Social History of Mexico’s Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests.
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 237 p.). Railroads --Social aspects
--Mexico --History; Railroads --Economic aspects --Mexico --History.
Railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico; rapid
economic growth greatly benefited elites, heavily impacted rural
and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by rail;
foreign investment in Mexico, largely in railroad development,
connected to effects on people living in isthmus of Tehuantepec,
Mexico's region of greatest ethnic diversity.
Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. (1996).
Slow Train to Paradise: How
Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads. (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press,, 350 p.). Railroads--United
States--Finance--History; Investments, Dutch--United States--History.
James A. Ward (1986).
Railroads and the Character of America,
1820-1887. (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 200 p.).
Railroads--United States--History--19th century; National
characteristics, American.
Christian Wolmar (2007).
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain.
(London, UK: Atlantic Books, 384 p.). Railway Technology; Engineering
& Trades; Trains & Railways. Cultural, social, economical importance
of invention of railway, how railway helped to form the Britain of
today; from pioneering Liverpool & Manchester
Railway, 90% of existing network authorized during railway mania of
1844-47, to checkered history of
British Rail.
David M. Young (2005).
The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago.
(Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 270 p.). Former
Transportation Editor (Chicago Tribune). Railroads--Illinois--Chicago;
Land use--Illinois--Chicago; Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions.
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Business History Links
California State Railroad Museum
http://www.csrmf.org/
Opened in Sacramento, CA in 1976; California State Railroad Museum is
one of Sacramento’s largest and most popular visitor destinations
(over 500,000 visitors annually); primary exhibit building, the
Railroad History Museum, totals 100,000 square feet; over 225,000
square feet of total exhibit space, stimulating exhibits, enthusiastic
and knowledgeable docents, and beautifully restored railroad cars and
locomotives to illustrate railroad history in California and the West.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History
Museum
http://cprr.org/ Stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history
of the first transcontinental railroad. This is a VIRTUAL museum.
The Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative
Collection
http://library.syr.edu/information/spcollections/digital/erierr/ Throughout the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, the
railroad reigned supreme over the American transportation landscape.
This digital collection from Syracuse University Digital Projects
brings together over 700 images from The Erie Railroad Company
collection of glass plate negatives. Visitors can look at shots of
individual train stations, mile posts, new track construction, and
social organizations such as the East Buffalo Car Shop Basketball
Team. The collection serves as a very fine source of information for
those with a penchant for early 20th century industrial landscapes,
railroad construction, and the lives of railroad workers. Visitors can
also browse the collection by Library of Congress subject headings, or
they may wish to search these materials by entering various keywords.
The History of Railroads
http://www.booklook.com/tr01000.htm
Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation
http://www.larhf.org/ Non-profit educational corporation established in 1999; built on three
elements: preservation, adventure and education; mission is to
diligently preserve and dynamically present the history of railroading
in Los Angeles through its three core programs: public outreach,
archival preservation, and multiple-media publishing.
National Railway Historical Society
http://www.nrhs.com Formed in 1935 (nation's largest rail historical society) - to
preserve and promote railroading nationwide.
Railroad.net
http://www.railroad.net/forums/parail/ This forum is meant for the discussion of the railroads of Pennsylvania,
both past and present.
Railroad History
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/railroad.htm This Guide was prepared with support from the National Endowment for
Humanities, the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation,
the University of Illinois, RPI, the Gilder-Lehrman Foundation, the Luce
Foundation, and the Robert H. Michel Civic Education Grants sponsored by
The Dirksen Congressional Center. Richard Jensen, retired Professor of
History, University of Illinois Chicago.
Railroad History
Collections
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/raillist.htm
Railroad History Database
http://www.earlpleasants.com
Railroad History Links
http://railroads.uconn.edu/links.htm Links to resources for genealogy, institutions with research
collections, railroad photo collections, and other resources.
Railroad Maps 1828-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating
the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of
industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the
development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the
achievement of early railroaders. Included in the collection are
progress report surveys for individual lines, official government
surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way,
and route guides published by commercial firms. All of the items presented here are documented in RAILROAD MAPS of
the United States compiled by Andrew M. Modelski in 1975. The
bibliography contains 623 railroad maps of the United States.
Railroading and Early Transportation http://www.bookmine.com/inventory/inventory.html
Largest Selection of Out-of-Print Railroad Books on the Planet!
Sources of Railroad History Research
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/BLC/Railroadlinks.htm
Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society
http://www.sphts.org
Dedicated to preserving and disseminating the historical record of the
Southern Pacific Railroad and its affiliates. We support railfanning,
industrial archeology and accurate scale modeling of this great pioneer
railroad of the western United States.
Southern Pacific - A Working List of Books and
Booklets on the Southern Pacific and Related Subsidiaries
http://sphts.org/pmcclosky/spbooks.html
Union Pacific Historical Society
http://www.uphs.org/ Dedicated to
the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad from its
beginning in 1862 to the operation as it is today.
Union Pacific History & Photos
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml Union Pacific's shield is one of the nation's most respected and
recognized corporate logos; a symbol of strength reflecting America's
heritage. During the company's approximately 140-year history, the
shield has mirrored the styles and economic trends that shaped both the
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