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The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services

Dale Jenkins
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Description:The Illinois Terminal Railroad that vanished into the Norfolk & Western Railroad in 1981 was a markedly different creature than it was as an infant some 75 years earlier. With its arch-windowed electric cars flashing though the fertile central Illinois countryside or trundling through city streets past humming substations, the Illinois Traction System was the epitome of classic interurban carriers in a short-lived epoch of American transportation.Electric interurban and streetcar railways helped civilize the nation's cities while bridging the gap between horse-and-buggy era and the automobile age. A number of small upstart railway companies eventually grew into the far-flung Illinois Traction System. in the early days Midwesterners were served by ITS passenger and freight operations at a time when interurbans were simply a way of life that most people assumed would never end.Interurbans came and went with alarming frequency in the early part of the 20th Century. Insufficient capital, competition from parallel steam railroads, the coming of the automobile age, and the Great Depression together or separately proved to be formidable foes for most interurban lines. But the strong survived. Radical change beginning at the end of the "Roaring Twenties" propelled the largest of all interurbans, "The Traction," into the ranks of big-time railroading.World War II and the years immediately after were merciless on American railroads, especially with changes in U.S. transportation policies. Cast aside by America's new focus on highway and air transport, the railroads were forced to make radical transformations or succumb to "progress." The IT entered this period still very much an interurban, relying largely on electric power to transport freight and passengers, but it left as an all-diesel, freight-only company.Beginning in 1956, the railroad found itself in a completely new venue; a unique one, in some respects, compared to other rail carriers, because the IT was now a ward of a contigent of "steam" railroads. The end of the sotry revolves around the tenacity of the railroad and its leaders, and it holds still more lessons in how a company adapted (and did so quickly) to survive in an increasing ruthless, obstacle-ridden corporate world. Yet the Illinois Terminal remained an immensely fascinating operation, right up to the end.Contents:Section 1: The Interurban EraChapter 1: The McKinley YearsChapter 2: The Building of an EmpireChapter 3: Passengers — 1901-1927Chapter 4: Freight — 1901-1927Section 2: The Expansion EraChapter 5: The Steam LineChapter 6: The St. Louis & AltonChapter 7: Passengers — 1928-1945Chapter 8: Freight — 1928-1945Section 3: The Transition EraChapter 9: The Diesels ArriveChapter 10: The Streamlined EraChapter 11: Radical TransformationSection 4: The Diesel EraChapter 12: New DirectionChapter 13: The Wilson YearsChapter 14: Countdown to N&WWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services. To get started finding The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
330
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
White River Productions
Release
2005
ISBN
1932804005

The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services

Dale Jenkins
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: The Illinois Terminal Railroad that vanished into the Norfolk & Western Railroad in 1981 was a markedly different creature than it was as an infant some 75 years earlier. With its arch-windowed electric cars flashing though the fertile central Illinois countryside or trundling through city streets past humming substations, the Illinois Traction System was the epitome of classic interurban carriers in a short-lived epoch of American transportation.Electric interurban and streetcar railways helped civilize the nation's cities while bridging the gap between horse-and-buggy era and the automobile age. A number of small upstart railway companies eventually grew into the far-flung Illinois Traction System. in the early days Midwesterners were served by ITS passenger and freight operations at a time when interurbans were simply a way of life that most people assumed would never end.Interurbans came and went with alarming frequency in the early part of the 20th Century. Insufficient capital, competition from parallel steam railroads, the coming of the automobile age, and the Great Depression together or separately proved to be formidable foes for most interurban lines. But the strong survived. Radical change beginning at the end of the "Roaring Twenties" propelled the largest of all interurbans, "The Traction," into the ranks of big-time railroading.World War II and the years immediately after were merciless on American railroads, especially with changes in U.S. transportation policies. Cast aside by America's new focus on highway and air transport, the railroads were forced to make radical transformations or succumb to "progress." The IT entered this period still very much an interurban, relying largely on electric power to transport freight and passengers, but it left as an all-diesel, freight-only company.Beginning in 1956, the railroad found itself in a completely new venue; a unique one, in some respects, compared to other rail carriers, because the IT was now a ward of a contigent of "steam" railroads. The end of the sotry revolves around the tenacity of the railroad and its leaders, and it holds still more lessons in how a company adapted (and did so quickly) to survive in an increasing ruthless, obstacle-ridden corporate world. Yet the Illinois Terminal remained an immensely fascinating operation, right up to the end.Contents:Section 1: The Interurban EraChapter 1: The McKinley YearsChapter 2: The Building of an EmpireChapter 3: Passengers — 1901-1927Chapter 4: Freight — 1901-1927Section 2: The Expansion EraChapter 5: The Steam LineChapter 6: The St. Louis & AltonChapter 7: Passengers — 1928-1945Chapter 8: Freight — 1928-1945Section 3: The Transition EraChapter 9: The Diesels ArriveChapter 10: The Streamlined EraChapter 11: Radical TransformationSection 4: The Diesel EraChapter 12: New DirectionChapter 13: The Wilson YearsChapter 14: Countdown to N&WWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services. To get started finding The Illinois Terminal Railroad: The Road of Personalized Services, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
330
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
White River Productions
Release
2005
ISBN
1932804005

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