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History of the Southern Pacific, The By Bill Yenne w Dust Jacket 1985
History of the Southern Pacific By Bill Yenne
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1985
127 Pages
CONTENTS
A Golden Dream 1850-1861 6
Judah Comes to California6
The Big Four10
The Golden Spike: 1862-186912
Across the Sierra17
The Dash to Promontory20
The Golden State: 1870-1890 26
Expanding the Network29
Putting California on the Map30
San Francisco, Hub of an Empire 32
The Empire Expands34
A New Kentucky Home40
Whither the Big Four40
The Early Locomotives45
The Golden West: 1870-1890 48
Rails Across Texas48
The Battle of Yuma52
The Sunset Route52
North to Oregon54
The Cotton Belt59
The Golden Years: 1890-191760
Huntington at the Helm60
Edward Henry Harriman64
Disaster on the Colorado66
The Government Versus the Railroad68
Triumph Over Disaster70
Agricultural Development73
Consolidation74
The Golden Century: 1917-198576
The Roaring Twenties76
Southern Pacific de Mexico81
Crash and Depression84
Recovery84
Ferries and Bridges91
The Cab-Aheads96
World War II100
Postwar Expansion and Innovation101
Diversification108
One Last Piece114
The Southern Pacific-Santa Fe Merger118
A Portrait of Southern Pacific123
Index126
The Southern Pacific Company is one of the largest railroads in the United States. Built on the dreams of five men a century ago, it grew from a tenuous steel filament across hostile plains into one of the largest privately owned rail transportation companies in the world. The Southern Pacific Railroad is 13,600 miles of rail line connecting the mouth of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest to the mouth of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. It is, however, more than a railroad. It is a diversified transportation and land development company with holdings in petrochemical pipelines and telecommunications.
Southern Pacific is today the legacy of the men who tamed the Sierras, saved the Imperial Valley and united California with Texas and Oregon. Southern Pacific is men and women who built and perpetuated of steel so that others could build and futures in the Golden West.
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