Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid–1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.
Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel.
Rails Through Dixie
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Rails through Dixie. San Marino, Calif.: Golden West Books, 1965. Lamb, J. Parker. “Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.” In Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, 709–11. Edited by William D. Middleton, George M. Smerk, and Roberta L.
Norm Cohen, Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ... Jim Cox, Rails across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 164. 12.
For a history of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and Meridian's role as a southern railroad center, see J. Parker Lamb, Railroads of Meridian (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2012); Jim Cox, Rails Across Dixie: A History of ...
New Journalism: Cultural Politics in the 1880s,” Victorian Periodicals Review 36 (Spring 2003): 20–40. ... Encounters: Two Victorian Sensations (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986); Karen Halttunen, Murder Most Foul: ...
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