A Journey into Florida Railroad History

by Turner, Gregg M.

• ISBN13: 9780813032337
• ISBN10: 0813032334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-14
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

"A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative work on the development of rail transport. While the system enjoyed several decades of growth and prosperity, a long and slow decline surfaced with the combined forces of the Great Depression, the popularization of the automobile, the rise of trucking, and air travel. Despite efforts to rescue the failing railroads, much of the nearly 6,000-mile network has largely vanished; some rails have now become hiking trails or green spaces." "Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on the subject, this book explores for the first time all the key players and companies, including every significant period of development, and reveals Florida's railroads as powerful instruments of change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gregg M. Turner is a former national director of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society at Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Railway Primer	p. 8
Panhandle Pioneers	p. 28
Government Lends a Hand	p. 50
The Agonies of War, Reconstruction, and Fraud	p. 81
An Extraordinary Quartet	p. 104
Regulation, System Builders, and Federal Control	p. 140
Vignettes	p. 164
The Glorious 1920s	p. 186
Pursuing Traffic	p. 207
Today's Players	p. 225
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 275
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