Twilight Rails: The Final Era of Railroad Building in the Midwest
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816665621 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Roger Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University and the author of numerous books on railroad history, including Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938–1992; “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company; and The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System. . About the AuthorH
No vampires but great stories of little known railroads Gene Bowker Say Twilight these days and most people instantly think of the blockbuster movie series about Vampires and Werewolves in the Pacific Northwest, but Twilight Rails by Clemson Professor H. Roger Grant is about the end of the railroad building in the US Midwest.Twili
By the start of the twentieth century railroads crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still those who believed that the railroad network in the United States was far from complete. Roger Grant—one of the leading railroad historians working today—documents the stories of eight Midwestern carriers that appeared at the end of the railroad building craze. Grant finds that even the weakest railroads were important to the communities they served; the arrival of the railroad was cause for great celebration as residents were finally connected to the outside world. While some of these roads enjoyed a degree of success, most of them were financial flops even before the rise of the highway system made them obsolete. In Twilight Rails, H. Even the least financially successful carriers, Grant argues, managed to significant
. Roger Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University and the author of numerous books on railroad history, including Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938–1992; “Follow the Flag”: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company; and The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System. H