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Nickel Plate Road The History of a great Road by Taylor Hampton w Dust jacket
The Nickel Plate Road, The History of a Great Railroad by Taylor Hampton
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket Inscription by author
366 pages Dust jacket has damage
Copyright 1947
CONTENTS
Introduction 7
1. Setting The Stage17
Part One: The Seney Syndicate
2. Entrance23
3. The Cast32
4. Bitter Rivalries49
5. A Nickname Is Born64
6. Rail By Rail78
7. East And West-The Twain Did Meet100
8. Trains On The Track129
9. Dollars And Sense149
10. "Starve To Death"163
Part Two: The New York Central Regime
11. Sold177
12. Sublimated203
Part Three: The Van Sweringen Period
13. Changing The Ties219
14. The Clover Leaf230
15. The Lake Erie And Western259
16. Three In One Now269
17. Dreams Of Empire305
18. Control Passes317
Part Four: The Young Era
19. A New Setting325
20. Epilogue334
Condensed Financial Statement 337
Appendices 341
Bibliography 351
Index357
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Engine No. 1 of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railwayfrontispiece
Birthplace-108 Broadway, New York City30
Ground plot of Broadway and environs where the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway was conceived 31
George I. Seney32
Columbus R. Cummings32
William Boyden Howard32
Calvin Stewart Brice32
Walston Hill Brown33
John T. Martin33
Edward H. R. Lyman33
Alexander M. White33
Charles Foster64
Samuel Thomas64
William Fleming64
Daniel P. Eells64
The streets of Bellevue, Ohio, 188165
North view of Findlay, Ohio65
The Evolution of a Trade Mark72
Map of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, 1882, showing the proposed Joliet and Youngstown branches94
The Nickel Plate's first general offices, the Hoyt Block, Cleveland, Ohio96
The Rocky River Railroad, 1881, Cleveland, Ohio96
Railroad pass, Rocky River Railroad96
Nickel Plate bridge over Cuyahoga Valley, 1882, Cleveland, Ohio 97
Bellevue's Nickel Plate roundhouse97
Conneaut's first yard engine97
One of the Nickel Plate's most famous advertisements127
Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the eighties128
The Wabash Canal in 1881, Fort Wayne, Indiana128
The main street of Conneaut, Ohio, 1882129
Engine No. 1129
Notice of completion of the construction of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway from Buffalo to Chicago, September 1, 1882 133
Officers of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, 1882 139
Official announcement of the opening of the railroad for passenger business, October 13, 1882142
B. G. Mitchell160
Nelson Robinson160
Stevenson Burke160
J. H. Devereux160
The Broadway depot, Cleveland, Ohio 161
Cleveland's Public Square and Forest City House161
William K. Vanderbilt192
D. W. Caldwell192
Samuel R. Calloway192
William Henry Caniff192
O. P. Van Sweringen193
M. J. Van Sweringen193
J. J. Bernet193
Facsimile of pp. 2 and 4, Nickel Plate folder on the Gold Fields of Alaska208
Facsimile of pp. 6 and 9, Nickel Plate folder on the Gold Fields of Alaska209
Insignia of the Veterans Association of the Nickel Plate Road214
Trade Mark of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad 248
The first engine on the standard gauge run over the Frankfort-Kokomo Railroad, March 28, 1874224
The old Frankfort and Kokomo Railroad, Michigantown, Indiana, March 28, 1874 224
No. 32 on the Toledo, Delphos, and Burlington224
Stock certificates of the Toledo, Delphos and Indianapolis Railway Company, 1877-1878225
Map of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad 254
No. 9, the first passenger train on the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, at Coffeen, Illinois256
Celebrating on No. 48 of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City at Edwardsville, Illinois256
The Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City No. 16, with its crew, at Charleston, Illinois256
Frankfort, Indiana, in latter Nineteenth Century257
The Dean Richmond, a Clover Leaf boat, and her captain, George W. Stoddard 257
The Clover Leaf station at Warren, Indiana257
Stock Drover's Pass, Lake Erie and Louisville Railway260
Map of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad277
Muncie, Indiana, in the early eighties288
Looking north on Fourth Street from Columbia Street in Lafayette, Indiana, in early L.E. and W. days288
The Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Engine No. 13 with its "lucky" crew 289
Engine No. 95 and crew at Bloomington, Illinois, in the eighties 289
Walter L. Ross304
William Harahan304
The Niagara Frontier Food Terminal, Buffalo, N.Y. 304
The Northern Ohio Food Terminal, Cleveland, Ohio304
The Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, before the building of the 58-story Terminal Tower305
The Terminal Tower305
George D. Brooke305
Engine No. 700305
The Van Sweringen Rail System 319
Five dollars in scrip issued by the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad in 1854 320
Stock certificate of the Fort Wayne and Southern Railroad, 1852 320
Dividend check issued by Lake Erie and Western, 1898320
The Hotel French in Lima, Ohio321
East view of Union Station, Indianapolis, in the late 1850's321
Robert R. Young336
Allan P. Kirby336
John W. Davin337
Centralized Traffic Control Panel at Conneaut, Ohio337
WHEN a corporation, like an individual, reaches a certain age, it has prerogatives. A man of sixty-five frequently reflects and muses over a lifetime filled with accomplishments, disappointments, joys, and sorrows. The Nickel Plate Road, likewise, has a colorful background filled with events-not all momentous-but each of interest or pride to many.
It seems, therefore, that its existence and history merit at this time a permanent recording so that in the years to come, when even we have passed away, all knowledge of these things will not have been lost, but will remain not only as a memory but as a pattern-and even an inspiration-to those who shall succeed us to continue and to aspire to even greater things than we in a mere lifetime have been able to add.
It is impossible in a short space to pay tribute to each individual who has contributed to the organization, construction, operation, and expansion of an entity as comprehensive as a railroad. However, by tracing the broad outlines of its development, we can recreate the life-line and in so doing pay ,tribute to the total achievements of the thousands of employees, investors, patrons, and loyal friends, which the Road claims today. It is hoped that this volume, in recalling the past, will serve as an inspiration for the future to all those who read its pages.
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