A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 : Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio Hardback
by Richard C. Carpenter
Part of the Creating the North American Landscape series
Hardback
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America.
Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks.
Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and freight-whether a massive electric generator or a child's bicycle. Richard C. Carpenter's hand-drawn color maps recapture the precise details: the various trunk and ancillary railroad passenger lines that served thousands of towns; long-since demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations; towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over; track pans; coaling stations; tunnels; bridges and viaducts; and other rail-specific sites. The third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio.
These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network, where east-west transcontinental lines crossed north-south inter-regional lines. Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Tell City, Indiana.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 276 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780801890024
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 276 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:25/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801890024