Author: LeRoy BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Bibliography of Michigan Railroads
Author: LeRoy BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies
Author: Graydon M. MeintsPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 087013938X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called "paper railroads," companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track. Michigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad "family trees" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.
Michigan Bibliography
Author: Michigan Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Railroads in Michigan
Author: LeRoy BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"This compilation provides access to much of the documentary legacy remaining from the railroad companies. By identifying what exists and where it can be found, Barnett's book will open doors to information about these transportation lines in Michigan. The sources revealed ... provide abundant evidence on the operations of railroads, describe the areas served by them, and show how such firms helped to develop the Great Lakes State."--Introduction p. xvi.
Railroads for Michigan
Author: Graydon M. MeintsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781611860856
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.
150 Years of Michigan's Railroad History
Author: Annual Report of the Michigan Railroad Commission
Author: Michigan Railroad CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Michigan Central Railroad
Author: Nicholas A. MarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
In pioneer America, the Michigan Central Railroad (MCRR) became the major route between east and west, linking older states and their restless populations to young cities like Detroit and Chicago, and to the wide open spaces beyond. Now, for the first time in book form, historian Nick Marsh systematically relates the colourful story of this legendary enterprise, drawing on numerous archival records, photographs, and artefacts. The MCRR story is a story of toil, triumph, and tragedy. Marsh includes chapters on the railroad's construction, its conversion from a state-owned to a private enterprise, the sad ending to a Michigan farmers' rebellion, the involvement of William H. Vanderbilt, and the empire building of the visionary James F. Joy. Eagerly anticipated by many, the appearance of Marsh's comprehensive account will bring joy to legions of rail fans, history buffs, and connoisseurs of Americana.
Michigan Bibliography: Books, pamphlets, etc. -v.2. Maps and atlases. Manuscripts in the Burton historical collection
Author: Michigan Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads of the State of Michigan, for the Year Ending ...
Author: Michigan Railroad CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description