Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies (eBook)

Graydon M. Meints (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

1993
318 Seiten
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62895-200-1 (ISBN)

Infos

<DIV><P><I>Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies</I> is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called "paper railroads," companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track.  <BR>      Michigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad "family trees" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.</P></DIV>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.1993
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-62895-200-8 / 1628952008
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62895-200-1 / 9781628952001