Book ID: CBB000101607

Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970 (2001)

unapi

Saunders, Richard (Author)


Northern Illinois University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xix + 486 pp., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Revised edition. Discusses mergers and the coming of Conrail in 1978.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000101607/

Similar Citations

Book Brock Kerchner; Wes Reminder; (2021)
Conrail Business & Research Trains (/isis/citation/CBB419582927/)

Article (2023)
Conrail Historical Society opens its museum-in-a-box-car (/isis/citation/CBB722529035/)

Book Mutschler, Charles V.; (2002)
Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892--1985 (/isis/citation/CBB000201652/)

Book Herr, Kincaid A.; (2000)
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963 (/isis/citation/CBB000101660/)

Book Rose, Mark H.; Seely, Bruce Edsall; Barrett, Paul F.; (2006)
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (/isis/citation/CBB000772764/)

Book Schramm, Jeffrey W.; (2010)
Out of Steam: Dieselization and American Railroads, 1920--1960 (/isis/citation/CBB001230808/)

Article Salvatore, Ricardo Donato; (2006)
Imperial Mechanics: South America's Hemispheric Integration in the Machine Age (/isis/citation/CBB001030915/)

Book Kennedy, Ian G.; Treuherz, Julian; (2008)
The Railway: Art In the Age of Steam (/isis/citation/CBB001035580/)

Article Hyde, Charles K.; (2001)
Detroit, Toledo, and Milwaukee Roundhouse, Greenfield Village, Dearborn (/isis/citation/CBB000100988/)

Article Grant, H. Roger; (2007)
The Georgia and Florida Railroad and Wiregrass Agriculture (/isis/citation/CBB001231369/)

Article Christian Gelzer; (2015)
Speed is a Virtue: Travel in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States (/isis/citation/CBB283815069/)

Book Lamb, J. Parker; (2003)
Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive (/isis/citation/CBB000830905/)

Book Marrs, Aaron W.; (2009)
Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (/isis/citation/CBB000952153/)

Book Runte, Alfred; (2006)
Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation (/isis/citation/CBB000700538/)

Thesis Marrs, Aaron Wagner; (2006)
The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads (/isis/citation/CBB001561498/)

Book White, Richard; (2012)
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (/isis/citation/CBB001212445/)

Authors & Contributors
Brock Kerchner
Christian Gelzer
Wes Reminder
White, Richard W.
Treuherz, Julian
Seely, Bruce Edsall
Journals
Technology and Culture
Georgia Historical Quarterly
Technology's Stories
Railroad History
American Quarterly
Publishers
Garbely Publishing Company
Yale University Press
Washington State University Press
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of California Press
Truman State University Press
Concepts
Railroads
Technology
Land transportation
Technology and economics
Technology and industry
Business history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Ohio (U.S.)
Southern states (U.S.)
Michigan (U.S.)
Wisconsin (U.S.)
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail)
United States. Army
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (Michigan)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment