"Follow the Flag" : : A History of the Wabash Railroad Company / / H. Roger Grant.
"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted tra...
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Grant, H. Roger, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut "Follow the Flag" : A History of the Wabash Railroad Company / H. Roger Grant. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (304 p.) : 86 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Wabash Emerges East of the Mississippi River -- Two. The Wabash Emerges West of the Mississippi River -- Three. The Jay Gould Years -- Four. The Wabash Matures -- Five. "Follow the Flag" -- Six. Reorganization, War, Boom and Bust -- Seven. Depression, Rebirth and World War II -- Eight. The New Wabash -- Nine. A Fallen Flag -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America."Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City.One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad.The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers.Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Midwest. Transportation. U.S. History. TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History. bisacsh Jay Gould, Cannon Ball song, Blue Bird passenger trains, Pacific Railway Compnay, Wabash. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110651980 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics 2019 9783110606065 ZDB-23-DBV Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130 print 9781501747786 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501747793?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501747793 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501747793/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Wabash Emerges East of the Mississippi River -- Two. The Wabash Emerges West of the Mississippi River -- Three. The Jay Gould Years -- Four. The Wabash Matures -- Five. "Follow the Flag" -- Six. Reorganization, War, Boom and Bust -- Seven. Depression, Rebirth and World War II -- Eight. The New Wabash -- Nine. A Fallen Flag -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Wabash Emerges East of the Mississippi River -- Two. The Wabash Emerges West of the Mississippi River -- Three. The Jay Gould Years -- Four. The Wabash Matures -- Five. "Follow the Flag" -- Six. Reorganization, War, Boom and Bust -- Seven. Depression, Rebirth and World War II -- Eight. The New Wabash -- Nine. A Fallen Flag -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index |
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