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St. Louis Gateway Rail: The 1970's (MO) (Images of Rail) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lesley Barker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738540706
Dewey Decimal Number: 977
EAN: 9780738540702
ASIN: 0738540706
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Product Description
Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louiss aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouris loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the regions top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debutsBurlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Linesand a decade of railroad demisesRock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
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Some inaccuracies March 26, 2008
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The book is generally good. interesting Railway pictures from the 1970's in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. I worked for Amtrak at Union Station during 1974-1976 and then at Manufacturers Railway for many years. The Amtrak section features F-40 locomotives only. None of the old E-8's and none of the two different style Turbo-Trains that serviced St. Louis in the Mid 1970's. Some of the captions for the pictures of those Railways are in error. A picture of the Manufacturer's Engine House is labeled as a warehouse and the description of the work done there applies partially to work done at St. Louis Refrigerator Co. The Alton and Southern, another switching railroad, should have been included in the section with the Terminal Railroad and Manufacturers R.R. but is with the "Major Railroads" Page 57 is more of a history lesson than a cameo of the Illinois Traction Railroad in the 1970's.
But "nit picking" aside, the pictures are good and depict an era of St. Louis rail history when downsizing and merging were the rule of the day. There are several b/w shots of "fallen flag" railways including Missouri Pacific, GM&O, Frisco, MKT and others.
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