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Fairs and Railroads by Thornton Waite Railroads at World’s Fairs Expositions and
Fairs and Railroads by Thornton Waite Railroads at Worlds Fairs Expositions and Railroad Fairs Soft Cover
Fairs and Railroads
Thornton Waite
Soft Cover
213 Pages
Copyright 2010
1st Printing August 2010
Contents
Preface vii
Introductionix
Chapter 1 Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1876)1
Chapter 2 National Exposition of Railway Appliances, Chicago, Illinois (1883)9
Chapter 3 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893)13
Chapter 4 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, Forest Park, Missouri (1904)38
Chapter 5 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California (1915)51
Chapter 6 Panama-California Exposition, Panama-California International Exposition,
San Diego, California (1915 and 1916)64
Chapter 7 A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
(1933 and 1934)70
Chapter 8 Fair of the Iron Horse, Baltimore, Maryland (1927)80
Chapter 9 New York World's Fair, New York City, New York (1939 and 1940)101
Chapter 10 Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California
(1939 and 1940) 116
Chapter 11 Chicago Railroad Fair, Chicago, Illinois (1948 and 1949) 125
Chapter 12 Fairs in the 1960s149
Chapter 13 Fair in the 1970s and 1980s 163
Chapter 14 California State Railroad Museum Railroad Fairs (1981, 1991, and 1999)170
Chapter 15 Expo 86, Vancouver, British Columbia (1986) 177
Chapter 16 Other Fairs180
Conclusion 194
Appendix AEdward Hungerford195
Apppendix BHistory of Some Railroad Fair Equipment 198
Appendix CLocomotive Types211
References212
Back of Book
WORLD'S FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS have been held in the United States many times in the past 140 years. The fairs served several purposes. They were used by the cities in which they were held to promote the local economy, by national industries to show off their technical prowess, and by the public from all over the nation to have a good time and to learn about their nation and the world. The railroads were once an important and essential part of these fairs, transporting the majority of the visitors to and from them, and using the fairs as a public relation opportunity to show the visitors that the railroads were using the latest technoloc and that they were a benefit to the country. The first fairs in the United States focused on the modern technologies used by the railroads, but as time passed the railroads used the fairs to both promote travel on their lines and to show off their heritage and history.
This book tells of the participation of the railroads at the larger world's fairs and railroad expositions in the United States, describing how the railroads addressed the transportation of large numbers of people to the fairs and describing the exhibits they had on the fairgrounds.
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