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R&LHS Bulletin Railroad History #221 2019 Fall-Winter Yellow Fever
R&LHS Bulletin Railroad History #221 2019 Fall-Winter Yellow Fever
Railroad History is published twice annually in May & November. Covers, FRONT: Amtrak's Southwest Chief passes endangered semaphore signals on Burlington Northern Santa Fe's former Santa Fe route over Raton Pass in New Mexico. (Richard Koenig)
BACK: A 1930s Northern Pacific booklet promoting settlement and agriculture in Minnesota. (Don L. Hofsommer Collection)
Contents
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to
establish post roads, and for about a century, most of those roads
were the nation's railways. Here, in an 1887 timetable illustration,
Missouri Pacific's Fast Mail fulfills its mission and its name, hustling
between Kansas City and St. Louis.
8 Farming, Immigration and the Northern Transcontinentals The role of U.S. railroads in hinterland settlement.
By Don L. Hofsommer
38 Failure of a Route:
The New York & Boston
"Air Line" Railroad
A false start in Connecticut.
By Gregg M. Turner
54 Jay Gould, System Builder Questioning the Robber Baron image.
By Maury Klein
64 Field Notes in The Land
of Enchantment
Vintage semaphores on the former
Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico.
By Richard Koenig
84 Mississippi Revisited The mysterious history of an early steam locomotive.
By John H. White, Jr.
88 Yellow Fever Rides the Rails An Illinois Central excursion train spreads sickness and fear.
By Fred Ash
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