Rockford Interurban Railway

Author : Mike Schafer with Brian Landis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467112399
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rockford & Interurban Railway written by Mike Schafer with Brian Landis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today's America dominated by the automobile, it is difficult to believe that until the 1920s nearly 100 percent of the US population traveled via rail. Conventional passenger-train service spread rapidly by the 1850s, but another form of rail transportation did not emerge until the turn of the 20th century: the interurban. Almost always electric, interurbans linked cities with burghs. Rockford, one of Illinois's three largest urban centers during the 20th century, enjoyed a system appropriately named the Rockford & Interurban, dating from the city's horse-drawn streetcars of the 1880s. By World War I, the Rockford & Interurban ran from downtown Rockford to Cherry Valley and Belvidere; Winnebago, Pecatonica, and Freeport; Roscoe and Rockton; and Beloit and Janesville, Wisconsin. The Rockford & Interurban enjoyed a supernova of success, rising quickly in popularity before slowly dying when the automobile became widespread in the 1920s; the Great Depression finished the job in 1936.

Author : George Woodman Hilton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804740142
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Interurban Railways in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation history is re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Built with the idea of attracting short-distance passenger traffic and light freight, the interurbans were largely constructed in the early 1900s. The rise of the automobile and motor transport caused the industry to decline after World War I, and the depression virtually annihilated the industry by the middle 1930s. Part I describes interurban construction, technology, passenger and freight traffic, financial history, and final decline and abandonment. Part II presents individual histories (with route maps) of the more than 300 companies of the interurban industry. Reviews "A first-rate work of such detail and discernment that it might well serve as a model for all corporate biographies. . . . A wonderfully capable job of distillation." —Trains "Few economic, social, and business historians can afford to miss this definitive study." —Mississippi Valley Historical Review "All seekers after nostalgia will be interested in this encyclopedic volume on the days when the clang, clang of the trolley was the most exciting travel sound the suburbs knew." —Harper's Magazine "A fascinating and instructive chapter in the history of American transportation." —Journal of Economic History "The hint that behind the grand facade of scholarship lies an expanse of boyish enthusiasm is strengthened by a lovingly amassed and beautifully reproduced collection of 37 photographs." —The Nation

Author : Mike Schafer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738583907
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rockford Area Railroads written by Mike Schafer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads were key to Rockford's rise as a thriving manufacturing and commercial center. With an area population of over 200,000 residents and a reputation for manufactured goods, Rockford had a critical need for railroads into the bust years of the 1970s. Eventually four railroads rose to prominence in Rockford, all of them Class 1 carriers: the Chicago and North Western; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific (the Milwaukee Road); and Illinois Central. For nearly a century, these four roads--all of them esteemed Midwestern railroads--carried the bulk of freight and passengers arriving and departing Rockford, Davis Junction, and Loves Park by rail. Two other smaller railways, the Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary and the Rockford and Interurban, also played a part in Rockford's railroad history and are spotlighted in this volume.

Author : Mike Schafer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439650527
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rockford & Interurban Railway written by Mike Schafer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today’s America dominated by the automobile, it is difficult to believe that until the 1920s nearly 100 percent of the US population traveled via rail. Conventional passenger-train service spread rapidly by the 1850s, but another form of rail transportation did not emerge until the turn of the 20th century: the interurban. Almost always electric, interurbans linked cities with burghs. Rockford, one of Illinois’s three largest urban centers during the 20th century, enjoyed a system appropriately named the Rockford & Interurban, dating from the city’s horse-drawn streetcars of the 1880s. By World War I, the Rockford & Interurban ran from downtown Rockford to Cherry Valley and Belvidere; Winnebago, Pecatonica, and Freeport; Roscoe and Rockton; and Beloit and Janesville, Wisconsin. The Rockford & Interurban enjoyed a supernova of success, rising quickly in popularity before slowly dying when the automobile became widespread in the 1920s; the Great Depression finished the job in 1936.

Author : Electric Railway Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Electric Railway Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2920 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2502 pages
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Download or read book Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. Government, State and Municipal Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Railroad Commission of Wisconsin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opinions and Decisions of the Railroad Commission written by Railroad Commission of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Railroad Commission of Wisconsin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opinions and Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of Wisconsin written by Railroad Commission of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 2682 pages
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Download or read book Moody's Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 2682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: