A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio

Richard C. Carpenter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2009
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9002-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and freight-whether a massive electric generator or a child's bicycle. Richard C. Carpenter's hand-drawn color maps recapture the precise details: the various trunk and ancillary railroad passenger lines that served thousands of towns; long-since demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations; towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over; track pans; coaling stations; tunnels; bridges and viaducts; and other rail-specific sites. The third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio. These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network, where east-west transcontinental lines crossed north-south inter-regional lines.
Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Tell City, Indiana.

Autor

Richard C. Carpenter is the retired executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut.

Inhalt

Introduction
How to Use This Atlas
Acknowledgments
The Atlas
Kay Map
Map Symbols and Abbreviations
The Maps
Appendix: List of Railroads in the Atlas
Notes on the Maps: References
Indexes
Coaling Stations
Interlocking Stations and Former Interlocking Stations
Passender and Non-passenger Stations
Track Pans
Tunnels
Viaducts

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Creating the North American Landscape
• Zusatzinfo: 276 Line drawings, black and white
• Verlagsort: Baltimore, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 216 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 1588 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-8018-9002-0 / 0801890020
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9002-4 / 9780801890024
• Zustand: Neuware