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Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants and low-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such as California's Big Four--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steel rails from ocean to ocean. The real work of doing so, of course, was on the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese and Irish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary called their dreadful vitality figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative, alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standard textbooks.
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The progress represented by the railroad is often taken as an entirely positive trend in American history, but in Passage to Union, historian Sarah H. Gordon shows how the railroad's transformation of American life also exacted some great costs. She pays equal attention to technology and law, noting how the land to be crossed by the railroads all belonged to someone else; the brilliant engineering feats of early tracklaying were thus made possible in part by skillful railroad lawyers such as Abraham Lincoln. Passage to Union follows the story of American railroading from the time when the American West was untouched by tracks and the Southern states stubbornly tried to resist their entry to the decades when Pullman travel tied the nation together for good.
Besides detailing the great legal and economic themes of the railroad revolution, Gordon also pays attention to how train travel affected ordinary people, succeeding in making the great national saga of railroads a very human story. Later chapters of the book relate the details of rail travel in the latter half of the 19th century; the design of rail cars, new systems of ticketing, and even the institution of modern luggage all made rail travel a commonplace component of American life. --Robert McNamara
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This engrossing study of railroad reorganization looks at the financial history of the seven most important railroads which failed from 1892 ? 1896, and one railroad that was reorganized in 1902. Their problems were strikingly alike. However caused, their financial difficulties were expressed in high fixed charges, and usually in excessive floating debts. The remedy sought was the comprehensive exchange of old securities for new. A study of alternative reorganization methods can indicate dangerous policies as well as those that are just and likely to be successful.
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A monumental achievement--it should be on the shelves of every railroad, economic, and legal historian.--Herbert Hovenkamp, author of Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 Fills a large void in the field of legal history. There is nothing else available that covers this subject, or even comes close.--Lawrence M. Friedman, author of A History of American Law A unique and wide-ranging book on a relatively untouched subject that should appeal to anyone interested in the history of the American railroad.--John F. Stover, author of American Railroads
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Railway In Camera Author: Robin Linsley Publisher: Sutton Publishing; (July 1997)
Archive Photographs of the Great Age of Steam from the Public Record Office, 1860-1913. From the arrival of members of the Royal family to construction of a railway bridge, these rare photographs celebrate the great age of steam, including foreign railways as far afield as Austria, India, and South Africa.
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This richly illustrated account of the railway age in Britain shows how newly constructed railways transformed not only the landscape and economics but also the very culture of the nation. Michael Freeman examines the centrality of the railway in literature, art, and the public imagination as well as the financial and speculative developments of the time, illuminating Victorian life and the new world the railways made.
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Pickenpaugh, the best sort of amateur historian, combines academic thoroughness and journalistic clarity, merging Civil War and railroad history in highly readable fashion. He describes the movement of the XI and XII Corps of the Union's Army of the Potomac from Virginia to Tennessee in the fall of 1863 to help lift the siege of Chattanooga.
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