The Rock Island Line

Bill Marvel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2013
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01127-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This richly illustrated volume tells the story of a legendary railroad whose tracks spanned the Midwest, serving farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing settlers into the West, and hauling their crops to market. Rock Island’s celebrated Rocket passenger trains also set a standard for speed and service, with suburban runs as familiar to Windy City commuters as the Loop. For most of its existence, the Rock battled competitors much larger and richer than itself and when it finally succumbed, the result was one of the largest business bankruptcies ever. Today, as its engines and stock travel the busy main lines operated by other carriers, the Rock Island Line lives on in the hearts of those whom it employed and served.

Autor

Bill Marvel has been a newspaper journalist and freelance writer for 49 years. He is author (with R. V. Burgin) of Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific, a main selection of the History Book Club.

Inhalt

Introduction & Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Bridge
Chapter 2 A Bend in the Road
Chapter 3 A Rocky Road
Chapter 4 Planned Progress
Chapter 5 The Road to Ride
Chapter 6 The Road to Ruin
Epilogue: Pieces of the Rock
Notes
Resources
Index

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Railroads Past and Present
• Zusatzinfo: 104 color illus., 42 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington, IN
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 203 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 998 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-253-01127-2 / 0253011272
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01127-5 / 9780253011275
• Zustand: Neuware