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Chicago & Alton Railroad, The Only Way by Gene V Glendinning
Chicago & Alton Railroad, The by Gene V Glendinning
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
274 pages
Copyright 2002
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
1 The State Sets Its Course 3
2 A Railroad Emerges from the Prairie 8
3 Deception and Default 25
4 The Courts Decide the Future 46
5 From Calamity to Prosperity 58
6 The Triangle Is Closed 87
7 Defeat at Kansas City, Decline at Braidwood 113
8 The Harriman Era 129
9 The Hawley and Union Pacific Takeovers 157
10 The Long-Anticipated Receivership Arrives 182
11 The B&O and the War Years 204
Epilogue 230
Railroads and Abbreviations 233
Notes 237
Bibliography 257
Index 263
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
he first railroad to connect the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes, the Chicago & Alton Railroad played a key role in the economic development of the Midwest. From humble beginnings in 1847 as transport for farm produce, it grew to link three key midwestern cities-Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City-and set the standard for efficient service and luxurious passenger travel.
Such famous personages as Abraham Lincoln, Marshall Field, Timothy Blackstone, and Samuel Insull were associated with the Chicago & Alton. Lincoln had been among the first to buy stock in the company, and the Chicago & Alton carried his funeral train on the last leg of its journey to Springfield, Illinois.
The introduction of George Pullman's first sleeping and dining cars enhanced the Chicago & Alton's reputation for elegant style and comfort. The company initiated a number of innovations in rail travel, including the installation of the first steel railroad bridge. It was also the first to bring streamliners and diesels into the highly competitive Chicago-St. Louis corridor.
Events that shaped America, from the Civil War to World War II, impacted the Chicago & Alton. During the tumultuous years of its business expansion, frequent shifts of power threatened to destroy the railroad. Edward Harriman, for example, rebuilt and reequipped the Chicago & Alton only to lose it in one of his few mistakes. The federal government later seized control during one of the Chicago & Alton's weakest periods, but relinquished it after a devastating coal strike. Even criminal manipulations of the railroad's stock and bonds by a New York financier played a role in the company's turbulent history.
Illustrated with eighty photographs, many of them never before published, The Chicago Sr Alton Railroad is the first complete history of one of America's most famous small railroads.
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