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Main Line Of Mid-America The Story of Illinois Central by Carlton Corliss w/ DJ
Main Line Of Mid-America The Story of the Illinois Central by Carlton J. Corliss
Copyright 1950, Inside dust jacket has Something crossed off/ initials GB. Dust jacket has damage. Blank page has W R Minnie 21670 stamped.
490 pages Indexed
HArd Cover with dust jacket
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. War Whoops and Locomotives1
2. Role of the "Little Giant"12
3. The Illinois Central Is Born21
4. It Took Men of Faith30
5. Four Presidents in Four Years37
6. A Stupendous Undertaking42
7. Building the Charter Lines52
8. Railway Operations in the 1850's70
9. The Transformation of Illinois81
10. "Little Mac" Enters the Picture90
11. Mark Twain's Line99
12. Lincoln of the Illinois Central104
13. The War Between the States124
14. Lines Beyond the Mississippi141
15. The Great Chicago Fire157
16. The Controversial Lake Front163
17. The Jackson Road170
18. Canton North184
19. Beating Drums196
20. Top Men through the Eighties208
21. Expansion in the North217
22. The Cairo Bridge226
23. Rival Road to New Orleans232
24. The "Little J"245
25. West Feliciana Railroad251
26. Strengthening the Mid-Section261
27. Further Expansion279
28. From Small Beginnings292
29. The Saga of Casey Jones301
30. Turning the Century312
31. Golden Jubilee318
32. Battle of the Titans324
33. Change of Captains335
34. "Nary a Passenger"346
35. Growing with Mid-America359
36. The Ship Island Road375
37. The Vicksburg Route385
38. New Orleans Romance401
39. Ten Thousand Klondikes408
40. Building for Tomorrow414
41. Two Blades of Grass423
42. Mars Rides the Illinois Central438
43. Rounding Out the First Century450
Bibliography465
Main Line of Mid-America is a story of transformation, growth, and progress with few parallels in modern history. It is a story of the North, the South, the East, the West - a stirring pageant of transportation from the days of covered wagons to the streamlined trains of today.
Main Line of Mid-America is an intensely human story of struggle in the American tradition, of adversity, achievements, disappointments, and triumphs; its characters are men of vision and courage who demonstrated that the words defeat and failure were not in their vocabularies.
'Ellis is the railroad for which Abraham Lincoln was a leading attorney. This is the railroad that carried out America's first large-scale colonization effort. It is the railroad whose lines served under both Union and Confederate flags during the War Between the States, and it is the railroad that probably did more than any other private agency to hasten the re-establishent of commercial relations between the North and the South after the conflict was over.
Across the pages of Carlton Corliss' narrative move some of the great and colorful figures in American history - Black Hawk, Andrew Jackon, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, Mark Twain, Allan Pinkeron, George B. McClellan, P. G. T. Beauregard, Edward H. Harriman, and scores of other men of greater or lesser fame, each playing his role in the drama which transformed Mid-America from a frontier wilderness into today's throbbing bee hive of industry studded with thriving cities and prosperous fanning communities.
Here is native Americana - a big, generous slice of it - served up in easy-to-read style. Seldom has a railway history been so rich in anecdote or so replete with human interest.
CARLTON J. CORLISS
Carlton J. Corliss draws upon many years of unusual railway experience and an immense fund of railway lore in telling the story of the century-old Illinois Central Railroad. More than half of the author's active railway career was spent as a member of the Illinois Central organization - first in the Engineering Department and later on the Public Relations Staff, where railway history was his major interest. During his long connection with the Illinois Central and since then as a member of the Public Relations organization of the Association of American Railroads, Corliss has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on railway history, sonic of which have been given wide distribution by the Association and by individual railway companies.
In gathering material for this volume, the author delved deeply into the corporate records of the Illinois Central Railroad Company; he combed congressional, state, and county records, newspaper files, and the rich storehouses of in-formation in state archives, historical societies, and public and private libraries. Many veteran railway officers and descendants of men prominent in Illinois Central affairs were interviewed. As a result, Main Line of Mid-America contains much original and hitherto unpublished material as well as many interesting sidelights and anecdotes relating to the Illinois Central and the men identified with its development.
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