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Iron Road in the Prairie State The Story of Illinois Railroading by Cordery w/DJ
Iron Road in the Prairie State, The by Simon Cordery
The Iron Road in the Prairie State
The Story of Illinois Railroading
Simon Cordery
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
216 Pages
Copyright 2016
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Preliminaries 1
2 Development Delayed 6
3 Optimism Revived 12
4 Cultivating the Prairie 24
5 Financing Railroads 31
6 Conflagrations and Expansion 42
7 Illinois Railroad Labor 57
8 A Kaleidoscope of Regulations 73
9 Panic and Innovation 81
10 Bridge Building and "Overbuilding" 88
11 Excursions and Interurbans 103
12 Coal and Competition 113
13 Progressive Regulation 127
14 World War I and the 1920S 137
15 Depression, Dieselization, and Another War 146
16 Postwar Challenges 159
17 National Solutions? 170
18 Salvation 179
Epilogue 189
Notes 193
Bibliography 205
Index 213
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
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