A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1035-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g

Reihe: Creating the North American Landscape

Beautifully drawn color maps portray the U.S. railroad network at its zenith.

Driving across Iowa nowadays, one sees acres and acres of flat cornfields and hears little but the leaves stirring. But in the golden age of railroading, tracks crisscrossed the prairies and steam engines thundered by, carrying goods and people across the country. The sounds of the train could be heard for miles—the clickety-clack of the jointed rails and the haunting call of the steam whistle.

The fifth volume of A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 provides a comprehensive record of the railroad system as it existed in Iowa and Minnesota in 1946—the apex of America's post-war rail network, when steam locomotives still dominated and passenger trains stopped at towns all along the rail lines. Eventually railroad mergers, the automobile, and the airplane changed what many viewed as the world's premier rail system.

Richard C. Carpenter's hand-drawn color maps depict in precise detail the various trunk and secondary railroad lines that served scores of towns while indicating such features as long-since-demolished coaling stations, towns that functioned solely as places where crews were changed, tunnels, viaducts, and especially interlocking stations. In Volume 5, Carpenter traces every rail line from Thief River Falls, Minnesota, to Keokuk, Iowa. In this region seven railroads of the eastern network merged at Council Bluffs, Iowa, into the Union Pacific, the first transcontinental line to the Pacific Ocean. In Minnesota, the primary rail routes to the Pacific northwest—the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific—ran westward from Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carpenter, Richard C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Schienenfahrzeugtechnik und -gewerbe
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
How to Use This Atlas
Acknowledgments
The Atlas
Key Map
Map Symbols and Abbreviations
The Maps
Appendix: List of Railroads in the Atlas
Notes on the Maps
References
Indexes
Coal Stations
Interlocking Stations and Former Interlocking Stations
Passenger and Non-passenger Stations
Truck Pans
Tunnels
Viaducts

Über Autor(innen)

Carpenter, Richard C
Richard C. Carpenter is the retired executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut.

Richard C. Carpenter, now retired, was the executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut.