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A lively survey of the railroad industry by the fields leading historian.
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Unfinished Business : The Railroad in American Life
author
:
Klein, Maury.
publisher
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University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin
:
0874516579
print isbn13
:
9780874516579
ebook isbn13
:
9780585267081
language
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English
subject
Railroads--United States--History.
publication date
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1994
lcc
:
TF23.K54 1994eb
ddc
:
385/.0973
subject
:
Railroads--United States--History.
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Unfinished Business
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By the same author
The Great Richmond Terminal (1970) Edward Porter Alexander (1971) A History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (1972) Prisoners of Progress: American Industrial Cities, 18501920 (1976) The Life and Legend of Jay Gould (1986) Union Pacific: The Birth, 18621893 (1987) Union Pacific: The Rebirth, 18941969 (1990)
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Unfinished Business
The Railroad in American Life
Maury Klein
University of Rhode Island Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London
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University of Rhode Island Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1994 by Maury Klein All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Brown University Press, University of Connecticut, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, Tufts University, University of Vermont, and Wesleyan University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Klein, Maury, 1939 Unfinished business : the railroad in American life / Maury Klein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87451-657-9. 1. RailroadsUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. TF23.K54 1993 385'.0973dc20 93-8112
All photographs courtesy of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
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This book is dedicated to the three men who did more than anyone else to develop my love and respect for history: Professor John L. Stipp of Knox College Professor Bell I. Wiley of Emory University Professor James Harvey Young of Emory University
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Contents
A Memoir by Way of Introduction; or, How I Got Here from There
1
Patterns of Early American Railroad Development
8
The Rise of the Iron Horse
18
The Strategy of Southern Railroads
31
Southern Railroad Leaders, 18651893: Identities and Ideologies
48
The Overland Route: First Impressions
68
In Search of Jay Gould
83
The Man Who Saved the Railroads
110
Competition and Regulation: The Railroad Model
122
The Turning Point in American Railroad History
135
Replacement Technology: The Diesel as a Case Study
143
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High-Speed Trains: America's Lost Opportunity
155
The Unfinished Business of American Railroad History
166
Notes
187
Bibliography of Articles and Papers
217
Index
219
Illustrations follow page 82
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A Memoir by Way of Introduction; or, How I Got Here from There
This collection of essays and articles represents work done over a period of twenty-five years.1 It includes scholarly articles, papers, pieces done for popular magazines or public occasions, and one new essay. What they all have at their center is a fascination with the role played by the railroad in American life. Together with some of my books, this work has branded me as a specialist in railroad history among historians and others interested in railroads. While flattering in its way, this was not a reputation I had ever sought or intended. Like many people, I found myself with a career I had never coveted or even known existed.
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