A Journey into Florida Railroad History

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"A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative work on the development of rail transport. While the system enjoyed several decades of growth and prosperity, a long and slow decline surfaced with the combined forces of the Great Depression, the popularization of the automobile, the rise of trucking, and air travel. Despite efforts to rescue the failing railroads, much of the nearly 6,000-mile network has largely vanished; some rails have now become hiking trails or green spaces." Written by one of the nation's foremost
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Overview

"A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative work on the development of rail transport. While the system enjoyed several decades of growth and prosperity, a long and slow decline surfaced with the combined forces of the Great Depression, the popularization of the automobile, the rise of trucking, and air travel. Despite efforts to rescue the failing railroads, much of the nearly 6,000-mile network has largely vanished; some rails have now become hiking trails or green spaces." Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on the subject, this book explores for the first time all the key players and companies, including every significant period of development, and reveals Florida's railroads as powerful instruments of change.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813041940
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication date: 3/25/2012
  • Series: Florida History and Culture Series
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 766,126
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Gregg M. Turner is a former national director of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society at Harvard Business School.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 A Railway Primer 8

2 Panhandle Pioneers 28

3 Government Lends a Hand 50

4 The Agonies of War, Reconstruction, and Fraud 81

5 An Extraordinary Quartet 104

6 Regulation, System Builders, and Federal Control 140

7 Vignettes 164

8 The Glorious 1920s 186

9 Pursuing Traffic 207

10 Today's Players 225

Notes 245

Bibliography 265

Index 275

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