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title	:	Railroads in the Heartland : Steam and Traction in the Golden Age of Postcards
author	:	Grant, H. Roger.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456003
print isbn13	:	9780877456001
ebook isbn13	:	9781587290947
language	:	English
subject	Railroads--Middle West--History--Pictorial works, Postcards--Middle West--History.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	TF23.4.G73 1997eb
ddc	:	385/.09777/022
subject	:	Railroads--Middle West--History--Pictorial works, Postcards--Middle West--History.

Page iii Railroads in the Heartland Steam and Traction in the Golden Age of Postcards H. Roger Grant University of Iowa Press iowa city

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1997 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Printed on acid-free paper Postcards on pages 37, 80, 81, 91, 94, 95, 101-106, 108, 111, 117, 128, 129-133, 135, 136, 145, 150-155, 159, 160, 164, 169, and 170 are from the collection of H. Roger Grant. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grant, H. Roger, 1943 Railroads in the heartland: steam and traction in the golden age of postcards/by H. Roger Grant. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-600-3 1. Railroads Middle West History Pictorial works. 2. Postcards Middle West History. I. Title. TF23.4.G73 1997 385'.09777'022 dc2197-16470 02 01 00 99 98 97 C 5 4 3 2 1

Page v for JEROME MUSHKAT, friend, mentor, and former colleague

Page vii Contents Preface ix Railroads in the Midwest 1 The Steam Roads 3 The Electric Roads 18 The Railroad Landscape 29 Facilities: Depots 75 Other Railroad Facilities 109 People and the Iron Horse 125 Electric Interurbans 147 Selected Bibliography 171 Index 175

Page ix Preface This is primarily a visual study of railroads in the region of the United States commonly known as the Midwest. I have somewhat arbitrarily defined the Midwest as the five states of the Old Northwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin) and Minnesota, Iowa, and the northern section of Missouri, including one of the nation's great rail centers, St. Louis. This region roughly coincides with the corn belt, long recognized for its geographical unity. Few students of American transportation have paid much attention to regional differences in railroads. While several scholars have examined railroads in the East, South, and West, this approach has hardly been exhaustive; moreover, these works are largely out-of-date. Furthermore, the literature on railroading in the Midwest is modest at best. Since World War II, the focus has been on the writing, at times by journalists, of company histories. For the Midwest, volumes exist on most of the important roads, notably the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago & North Western; and Illinois Central. Although the regional course is hardly the only way to examine this important industry company histories, biographies, labor studies, and the like are valuable it is a sensible one. What I have done with this work is to select more than a hundred picture postcards that illuminate the principal themes of railroading in the Midwest during the early

Page x part of the twentieth century. Fortunately, a national postcard craze roughly coincided with the zenith of the Railway Age, both for steam and electric interurban roads. Literally millions of cards, including real-photo ones, were produced between 1905 and 1915. Hopefully, these illustrations collectively will reveal those characteristics that gave this dynamic midwestern industry distinctive features. As the narrative suggests, this is a challenge. Since the region was often a zone of transition between established railroads of the East and newer ones of the West, photographic artifacts require interpretation. Yet the point remains that a regional focus aids in the way this giant transportation enterprise can be explained and remembered.

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