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Ashe, William A.,
103

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (Santa Fe),
135
,
141
,
176
,
235
,
270

and aviation,
302–303

branch line closures,
316

diesel services,
316

gas-engine trials,
310

and Harvey restaurants,
209

and immigrants,
172
,
173

prestige services,
301
,
313
,
328

and Western expansion,
173–174
,
175–176
,
179

Atlantic & Great Western Railroad,
168

Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad,
40

Auburn & Syracuse Railroad,
67

Australia,
60
,
176

Austria,
21

Averell, Mary,
248

Aviation,
302–303
,
318
,
321
,
328–329
,
337
,
350
,
352

Ayres, Henry “Poppy,”
79–80

Baedeker
guides,
184
,
223

Baldwin, Matthias,
42–43

Ballast,
46

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
12
,
58
,
60
,
68–69
,
70–71
,
168
,
230
,
250
,
303–304
,
308

branch line closures,
316

and Civil War,
95
,
97–98
,
104
,
111
,
113
,
118

electrification,
286–287
,
297

and first US railways,
1
,
18–23
,
32
,
33
,
125

labor relations,
233
,
238

prestige services,
264–265
,
327–328

Baltimore Riot,
97–98

Barnard, George C.,
242

Baseball,
226–227

Bass, Sam,
202

Bay Area Rapid Transit,
353–354

Beauregard, P. G. T.,
101

Bell, Nimrod,
161–162

Belt Railway,
71

Benton, Thomas Hart,
7

Best Friend of Charleston
,
20

Bevan, David,
337

“Big John” case,
346–347

Black Diamond,
334

Blenkinsop, John,
15

Blücher
,
15

Boiler explosions,
192

Bolshevik Revolution,
294

Boston

commuter services,
211

rail connections,
52–53

South Station,
261
,
344

Boston & Albany Railroad,
203

Boston & Lowell Railroad,
34
,
47
,
52
,
73
,
77
,
193

Boston & Maine Railroad,
223
,
287
,
297
,
338

Boston & Providence Railroad,
84

Boston & Worcester Railroad,
35

Boulton & Watt,
5–6

Boy Scouts,
311

Bragg, Braxton,
112

Braking,
49
,
196–199

Branch lines,
210
,
307
,
316
,
327
,
333–334

Brassey, Thomas,
39

Bridges

accidents,
161
,
193–194
,
256

and beavers,
210

Dale Creek bridge,
147

destruction of,
106
,
109
,
110
,
112

Missouri bridge,
155
,
207

Rock Island bridge,
86
,
147

Bridgewater Canal,
8

Brighton Beach & Brooklyn Railroad,
223

British Railways,
334
,
348

Broadway Limited
,
266–267
,
309

Brown, Dee,
42
,
127
,
135–136
,
139–140
,
146
,
149
,
152
,
172
,
206
,
208

Brown, George,
18

Brown, John,
94–95

Brown, Joseph E.,
103

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom,
59

Bryant, Keith L., Jr.,
158
,
178
,
251

Buchan, John,
109

Budd, Ralph,
310–312
,
328

Buffalo, Bradford & Pittsburgh Railroad,
242

Buffalo & Rochester Railroad,
67

Buffalo & State Line Railroad,
60–61

Buffett, Warren,
357

Bull Run, Battle of,
101–102
,
112

Burkhardt, Ed,
xxviii
,
354–355

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad,
257
, 258

Burlington Railroad.
See
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Burlington Trials,
199

Buses,
303
,
331

Bush, George W.,
326

Business travel,
263

Caldwell, Charles,
35

California Northwestern Railroad,
283

California Zephyr
,
327
,
329
,
345

Calkins, Earnest Elmo,
268

Camden & Amboy Railroad,
23
,
30
,
52
,
60
,
82
,
108
,
161
,
219

accident, and Vanderbilt,
80–81
,
240

and locomotive technology,
42–46

Canada,
xxvii
,
53
,
96
,
178
,
252
,
287
,
288
,
309
,
325
,
358

Canals,
4
,
8
,
12–13
,
19
,
27
,
29–31
,
47
,
53
,
65
,
84–85
,
217
,
228

Carnegie, Andrew,
98

Carpetbaggers,
163

Carriages,
44–45
,
73–76

all-steel,
200
,
212

classes of,
73

lighting and heating,
210
,
269

and stoves,
75

and toilets,
44
,
185

See also
Dining cars
;
Pullman cars
;
Sleeping cars

Carroll, Charles,
1
,
20
,
22

Cascade Tunnel,
287
,
310

Casement, John and Daniel,
138–140
,
143
,
146
,
152

Cassatt, Alexander,
261–262
,
285

Catch Me Who Can,
14

Catholic Total Abstinence Society,
256

Causey Arch,
3

Central Ohio Railroad,
113

Central Pacific Railroad,
124
,
175

and corruption,
128
,
132–134
,
144
,
156–158

death toll,
142

and meeting of railways,
57
,
150–152

and Native Americans,
147
,
202

and transcontinental railroad,
128
,
130
,
131–158

workforce,
141–142
,
143–144
,
146
,
150–152
,
160

Central Railroad of Michigan,
49

Central Railroad of New Jersey,
213
,
310

Charleston & Hamburg Railroad,
19–22
,
32–34
,
60
,
91
,
125
,
216

Charlotte Dundas
,
5

Chattanooga,
104
,
109
,
112–114

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal,
10

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad,
248
,
299
,
347

Chesterfield Railroad,
23

Chicago

commuter services,
353

elevated railways,
279

jazz culture,
302

as rail hub,
68–72
,
86–87

stockyards,
255
,
302

and Transcontinental railroad,
153
,
155

Tremont House Hotel,
182

Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad,
335

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (Burlington),
70
,
168–169
,
171–172
,
199
,
246–247
,
305
,
335
,
349

gas-engine trials,
310

prestige services,
310–312
,
325
,
328

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road),
236
,
287

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad,
70
,
204

Chicago & Alton Railroad,
71
,
183–184
,
250

Chicago Great Western Railroad,
310

Chickamauga, Battle of,
103
,
113
,
114

Chief
,
313

Chimneys, bulbous,
43
,
144

Chinese laborers,
141
,
142
,
143
,
144–145
,
146
,
150
,
151
,
160
,
162
,
177

Chisholm Trail,
148

Cincinnati
Daily Chronicle
,
89

Cinders,
75
,
144
,
278
,
287

Circuses,
227

City of Portland,
312

Civil War, US,
89–119
,
290

bridge destruction,
106
,
109
,
110
,
112

death toll,
118

railway destruction,
104–106
,
109–112
,
114–115

and railway expansion,
121–124

railway raids,
109–112

root causes,
95–96

and Southern railways,
90–94
,
99–105
,
111–113
,
115
,
122–123

and train robberies,
202–203

Class I railroads,
349–350

Cleveland, Grover,
236

Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad,
122

Cody, “Buffalo Bill,”
169

Coffin, Lorenzo,
198–200
,
206

Colfax, Schuyler,
157–158

Commuter services,
211
,
275–279
,
299
,
329–330
,
335
,
345
,
350–351
,
352–354

Conductors,
79–80
,
229
,
326
,
329

Conrail,
348–349

Constitution, US,
11
,
32
,
304

Construction companies,
38

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