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Pages: 231
Pages: 231
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Language: en
Pages: 172
Pages: 172
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09 - Publisher: Motorbooks International
This book picks up where the previous two Classic American titles left off, focusing on the golden age of American railroading from 1945 to the early 1970s. It
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-20 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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 h
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash in
Language: en
Pages: 134
Pages: 134
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-19 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Track the history of the Chicago Great Western Railway through vintage images in this volume authored by David J. Fiore Sr. The Chicago Great Western Railway (C