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The iron road in the Prairie State : the story of Illinois railroading /
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Railroads past and present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Preliminaries
- 2 Development Delayed
- 3 Optimism Revived
- 4 Cultivating the Prairie
- 5 Financing Railroads
- 6 Conflagrations and Expansion
- 7 Illinois Railroad Labor
- 8 A Kaleidoscope of Regulations
- 9 Panic and Innovation
- 10 Bridge Building and "Overbuilding"
- 11 Excursions and Interurbans
- 12 Coal and Competition
- 13 Progressive Regulation
- 14 World War I and the 1920s
- 15 Depression, Dieselization, and Another War
- 16 Postwar Challenges
- 17 National Solutions?
- 18 Salvation
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.