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  • JOHN W. BARRIGER III
    H. ROGER GRANT
    "Readers will find in his biography an extraordinary tale of the travails of twentieth-century railroading through the career of this one man." — The Annals of Iowa After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John W. Barriger III (1899–1976) started his career on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a rodman, shop hand, and then assistant yardmaster. His enthusiasm...

    $251.00

  • TRANSPORTATION AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    H. ROGER GRANT
    This "outstanding contribution to transportation history" chronicles the evolution of American mobility from stagecoaches to buses and airplanes ( Choice). Transportation is the unsung hero of American history. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, ...

    $229.00

  • A MIGHTY FINE ROAD
    H. ROGER GRANT
    "Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad." —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor Emeritus The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississipp...

    $229.00

  • ELECTRIC INTERURBANS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    H. ROGER GRANT
    "A well-written social history of the shortest-lived major US transportation mode" from the railway historian and author of A Mighty Fine Road ( Choice). One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance t...

    $251.00

  • RAILROADERS WITHOUT BORDERS
    H. ROGER GRANT
    For over 25 years, the creatively led Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has rejuvenated a series of down-and-out and even defunct railroads. Launched in 1987 by Henry Posner III, this investment and management company has demonstrated that it is possible both to have a conscience and to earn a profit in today's railroad industry. With ventures on four continents, RDC has c...

    $374.00

  • THE LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI & CHARLESTON RAIL ROAD
    H. ROGER GRANT
    "An outstanding work on an important element of American railroad history." — The Civil War Monitor Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old N...

    $251.00

  • RAILROADS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    H. ROGER GRANT
    "[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse" ( The Wall Street Journal).   In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," from 1830 to 1930. He explores four fundamental topics—trains and travel, train stations, railroa...

    $251.00

  • IOWA'S RAILROADS
    H. ROGER GRANT
    A definitive history of the railroads of Iowa, featuring over four hundred black-and-white photographs. At one point in time, no place in Iowa was more than a few miles from an active line of rail track. In this splendid companion volume to Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland (IUP, 2005), H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer explore the pivotal role that railroads played in the urban de...

    $251.00

  • IOWA RAILROADS
    H. ROGER GRANT
    What began as a study of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway stretched into more than a dozen contributions on Hawkeye state railroad topics. By 1969 Donovan had examined Iowa's “Little Three”: Chicago Great Western, Illinois Central, and Minneapolis & St. Paul as well as the state's “Big Four”: Chicago & North Western; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...

    $436.08