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History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad /
"" After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University of Kentucky Press,
[2003]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Klein, Maury, |d 1939- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad / |c Maury Klein. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Lexington, Ky. : |b University of Kentucky Press, |c [2003] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
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| 500 | |a Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1972, in series: Railroads of Ameriapproximately With new introduction | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION; INTRODUCTION; 1 A Town Grows Legs: The Birth of the L & N; Voices in the Wilderness; Machines in the Garden; Rivers to Cross and Mountains to Climb; The Wayward Branch; Prewar Prospects; 2 The State Between the War: The L & N in Wartime, 1861-65; The War Against the South; The War with the North; The Fruits of Victory; 3 The Sinews of Transportation, Part I; A Heavy Lightweight; The Iron Ponies; Beasts of Burden; The Armaments Race. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 4 The Contours of Postwar StrategyA Shifting Landscape; Routes and Rates; Albert Fink and the L & N's Response; The Green Line; 5 Combinations and Complications, 1865-73; The Road to Memphis; The Lebanon Extension; Northern Connections; The Election of 1871; 6 Northern Invaders and Southern Invasions, 1870-73; Cincinnati Moves South; The Commitment to Coal and Iron; 7 The Furies Uncaged: Depression and Expansion, 1872-79; Years of the Locust; The Alabama Albatross; The Whirligig of Expansion; Labor Pains; 8 ""Newcomb's Octopus'': The Zenith of Territorial Expansion, 1879-81. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The Yellow ScourgeThe ""King"" Cole Episode; Marching Through Georgia; A Territorial War; The Summa of Territorial Strategy; 9 The Financiers Take Charge: Interterritorial Expansion, 1880-83; The Interterritorial Rationale; Shifting Reins of Control; The Baldwin Regime; Internal Weaknesses; 10 Scandal and Reorganization, 1884; Downward Spiral; The Ethics of Manipulation; Panic and Peccancy; Salvation with Sacrifice; 11 A Curmudgeon for All Seasons: Milton H. Smith and His Administration; The Road to Railroading; Bureaus Without Bureaucrats. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 12 In Pursuit of Profits: Financial Policy, 1885-1902Dividends Versus Development; Panic and Depression; Labor Pains Revisited; 13 Tracks to the Door: Developmental Extension, 1885-1902; Birmingham Encircled; The Cumberlands Breached; Florida Staked; 14 Childhood's End: Interterritorial Expansion, 1885-1902; Weak Allies, Powerful Enemies; Cortex and Pizarro at the Summit; Seizing the Isthmus; End of an Era; 15 The Sinews of Transportation, Part II; Integration and Standardization; Crowded Stables; Safety, Speed, Shops, Stations, and Such; 16 The Great Freight Rate Debate. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The ""Southern System""Mr. Smith Goes at Washington; The Long and Short Haul Struggle; Washington Goes at Mr. Smith; 17 Through a Glass Darkly: The L & N in Politics, 1880-1920; The Dark Vision of Milton Smith; Politics, Passes, and the Press; The Goebel Affair; The Comer Affair; 18 Götterdämmerung: The Close of an Era, 1902-21; ""There's Coal in Them Thar Hills""; The Great Divide; The Old Order Passed; 19 From Riches to Rags: Prosperity and Depression, 1921-40; The Iron Horse at Bay; Improvements and Innovations; The Passing of the Torch; Singed Benefits; The Battle for Survival. | |
| 520 | |a "" After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L & N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern institution and a railroad buff's dream. When eminent railroad historian Maury Klein's definitive History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was first published in 1972, it quickly became one of. | ||
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