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St. Louis Gateway Rail
The 1970s
Buch von Lesley Barker
Sprache: Englisch

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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. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's 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 debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
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. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's 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 debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 130
ISBN-13: 9781531624439
ISBN-10: 153162443X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Barker, Lesley
Hersteller: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Maße: 250 x 175 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Lesley Barker
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2006
Gewicht: 0,419 kg
preigu-id: 103611855
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 130
ISBN-13: 9781531624439
ISBN-10: 153162443X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Barker, Lesley
Hersteller: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Maße: 250 x 175 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Lesley Barker
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2006
Gewicht: 0,419 kg
preigu-id: 103611855
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