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The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963 /
When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the twentieth century, the L & N grew into one of the nation's major rail systems, reaching from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River Vall...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the 2000 Edition; Author's Note; Chapter I: An Acorn is Planted; Chapter II: Behind the Blueprints; Chapter Ill: Wresting a Passageway; Chapter IV: The Course is Shaped; Chapter V: First Through Train; Chapter VI: Mars in the Ascendant; Chapter VII: Recovery from War; Chapter VIII: Southward to Coal and Iron; Chapter IX: Yellow Jack and Teredos; Chapter X: Coke Feeds the Furnace; Chapter XI: Presidential Parade; Chapter XII: Changing the Rail Gauge; Chapter XIII: Growth in Mining Areas; Chapter XIV: Entering the Cumberlands.
- Chapter XV: Expanding ServicesChapter XVI: Builders and Wreckers; Chapter XVII: More Bluegrass Pastures; Chapter XVIII: Alabama Steel ; Chapter XIX: Consolidation Maneuvers; Chapter XX: Nashville's New Station; Chapter XXI: Southward-to Georgia; Chapter XXII: New Fields of Usefulness; Chapter XXIII: L'Affaire Gates-Hawley; Chapter XXIV: Shop Talk; Chapter XXV: Y's and Otherwise; Chapter XXVI: A Look at Eastern Kentucky; Chapter XXVII: North Fork Extension; Chapter XXVIII: Harlan County Coal; Chapter XXIX: Adjustment to War; Chapter XXX: Federal Control; Chapter XXXI: War's Aftermath.
- Chapter XXXII: An Era EndsChapter XXXIII: We Mend Our ""Ways""; Chapter XXXIV: Belt-Tightening; Chapter XXXV: Water on the Track; Chapter XXXVI: War Again!; Chapter XXXVII: World War II Years; Chapter XXXVIII: The First Century Ends; Chapter XXXIX: First Ten-Second Hundred; Chapter XL: Into the Space Age; Appendix I: From Wood to Steel; Appendix II: ""Varnish"" Train Ensemble; Appendix Ill: L. & N. Motive Power; Appendix IV: L. & N. Roadway and Track; Presidents of the L. & N; Railroads Acquired, Leased or Constructed; In Grateful Acknowledgment; Indices; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M.
- NO; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.