Wabash

Author : Robert Butler
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780805031386
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wabash written by Robert Butler and published by Picador. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932 Wabash, Illinois, Deborah and Jeremy Cole, estranged since the death of their daughter, try to work out their grief through involvement in family concerns and the labor movement

Author : Mike McCormick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524061
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terre Haute written by Mike McCormick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of French explorers and the establishment of Fort Harrison in 1811 to the rise of the "Pittsburgh of the West" and beyond, Terre Haute's history is a study in paradox. Home to prominent schools, railroads, and distilleries as well as social reformers, national figures, and corrupt politicians, the city that grew up along the Wabash suffered devastating setbacks but also soared to spectacular achievements.

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747797
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.

Author : Jerry M. Hay
Publisher : Inland Waterways
ISBN 13 : 1605852155
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wabash River Guide Book written by Jerry M. Hay and published by Inland Waterways. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical guidebook to navigating the Wabash River and traveling along the river its entire length from Ft. Recovery, Ohio, through Indiana, to its confluence with the Ohio River at the Indiana/Illinois border. It includes detailed navigational charts, geographic and historical information about the river, along with the location of landmarks, hazards, bridges, ramps, tributaries, fuel and supplies. It contains a section called "Reading the River," which has advice for traveling the river safely. It also includes GPS readings, aerial photos, and descriptions and maps of roads adjacent or leading to the river.

Author : Donald J. Heimburger
Publisher : Heimburger House Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780911581027
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wabash written by Donald J. Heimburger and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wabash Railroad ran through the Heart of America with nearly 2,500 miles of track from Buffalo, New York, to Kansas City and Omaha, serving such towns as Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. Its beautiful steam locomotives included the Class J 4-6-2s, Class L 2-10-2s, Class O 4-8-4s and Class P 4-6-4 steam types, and diesels such as the F-7As, FAs, E-7s, E-8s and PAs. Wabash passenger trains included the City of St. Louis, City of Kansas City, Blue Bird, Banner Blue and the very famous Wabash Cannonball.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wabash River at Mount Carmel, Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wabash and White Rivers and Their Tributaries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US-24 Relocation, SR-13 to SR-9 and SR-37, Wabash/Huntington Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William J. Palmer
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602351686
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wabash Trilogy written by William J. Palmer and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WABASH TRILOGY includes three new novels by William J. Palmer: THE WABASH BASEBALL BLUES, THE REDNECK MAFIA, and CIVIC THEATER. Each novel shows Palmer at his most poignant and hilarious as he tracks his characters through the tragicomedy of life in the Midwest.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln, Clifty Creek, and Patoka Reservoirs, Wabash River Basin, Indiana and Illinois written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: